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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - La Clytte Military Cemetery (Belgium, West Vlaanderen) |
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Clytte Military Cemetery (1)
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>).
The first burial in the cemetery took place on the 1st November, 1914, and between that date and April, 1918, Plots I, II and III and part of Plot IV were filled. The hamlet of La Clytte was used as Brigade Headquarters, and the burials were carried out by Infantry, Artillery and Engineer units (out of 600, 250 are those of Artillery personnel and 66 are those of Engineers).
After the Armistice Plot IV was completed, and Plots V and VI formed by the concentration of isolated graves and small graveyards from the area round Reninghelst, Dickebusch, Locre and Kemmel.
There are now 1,082 casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 238 of the burials are unidentified and one of the graves, brought in from LEICESTER CAMP CEMETERY, is marked with the names of two men between whom the identification rests. Other special memorials commemorate casualties known to have been buried in the cemetery, but whose graves could not be located.
Amongst the graves are those for 4 soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment, plus the grave of an unidentified CSM of the Yorkshire Regiment.
We are extremely grateful to Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) and Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) who have generously provided the photographs on this page.
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Private Christopher Wharton Farrar.
44746. 20th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, formerly 31692 the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Sarah Farrar, of 70, Upper Rd., Batley Carr, Dewsbury. Killed 5 July 1918. Aged 28. Born Batley, Enlisted Dewsbury. "FROM HIS EVER LOVING WIFE AND SON" Photo by Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) |
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Private Albert Lockett. 235239.
19th Battalion The King's (Liverpool Regiment), formerly 202563 the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Alice Ann Bailey (formerly Lockett), of 10, Church St., Crewe. Killed 11 May 1918. Born Crewe (Cheshire), Enlisted Crewe, Resided Crewe. Photo by Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) |
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Private Lancelot Prest. 34653.
9th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, formerly 6042 Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 25 April 1918. Born Middleton, Enlisted Middlesbrough. Photo by Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) |
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Private Frederick Thomas Rowley.
32923. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment (attached to 175th Tunnelling Coy., Royal Engineers). Son of Hannah Rowley, of 9, Grange Road West, Middlesbrough, and the late Arthur Rowley. Died 5 June 1917. Aged 19. Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Redcar. (Shown as "Thomas Frederick Rowley" in SDGW, but "Frederick Thomas Rowley" in CWG register and on the Middlesbrough War Memorial.) Photo by Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) |
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An unknown Company Serjeant Major of
the Yorkshire Regiment. Photo by Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) |
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An unkown soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment. Photo by Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) |
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Clytte Military Cemetery (2)
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>).
La Clytte Military Cemetery (3)
Photo by Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)