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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - La Laiterie Military Cemetery, Belgium |
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La Laiterie Military Cemetery (1)
Photo : Commonwealth
War Graves Commission
The cemetery, named from a dairy farm, was begun in November 1914 and used until October 1918 by units holding this sector of the front. The different plots were, to a great extent, treated as regimental burial grounds; the majority of the graves in Plots II, III and X, for instance, were those of the 26th, 25th and 24th Canadian Infantry Battalions, respectively, and all but one of the graves in Plot VIII are those of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers. On 25 April 1918, the cemetery fell into German hands, but it was retaken at the beginning of September. After the Armistice, graves were brought into the cemetery from the battlefields north and north-east of Kemmel.
There are now 751 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or
commemorated in this cemetery. 180 of the burials are unidentified and special
memorials commemorate two servicemen whose graves were destroyed in later
fighting.
Amongst the graves are 14 for soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
We are very grateful for the photographs of the headstones, and one of the
cemetery, taken by Bairong Zhang-Marvill (<bairong@zh-m.co.uk>).
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Captain Edward George Clarkson Bagshawe.
5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of the late Judge Bagshawe, K.C. Killed 20 July 1916. Aged 36. (For further information on Captain Bagshawe, with a photo, see "Individual Photos = B".
"LORD INTO THY HANDS
I COMMEND MY SPIRIT" |
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Private George Wilfred Hardy Dixon.
1262. 5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Brother of Mrs. E. D. Johnson, of 12, St. Ann St., Cemetery Rd., York. Killed 5 July 1916. Born Driffield, Enlisted Driffield. (SDGW gives Regtl No as 1262; GH database gives Regtl No as 1262 but CWGC gives number as 1202) |
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Private Ernest Douglas, 2543.
5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Frederick and Isobel Douglas, of Pickering, Yorks. Killed on 6 July 1916. Aged 20. Enlisted Malton, Resided Pickering.
"THY PUPOSE LORD
WE CANNOT SEE BUT ALL IS WELL THAT'S DONE BY THEE" |
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Private Thomas Gibson, 3348.
5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed on 22 July 1916. Enlisted Whitby, Resided Wombleton, Nawton (Yorks). |
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Private Robert Harland. 1642. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Jane Harland, of 18, Dean Rd., Scarborough, and the late Robert Harland. Killed 17 July 1916. Born Scarborough, Enlisted Scarborough. |
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Private George William Alfred Horner.
2986. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of James Alfred and Alice Mary Horner, of Yearsley, Brandsby, York. Killed 23 June 1916. Aged 21. Enlisted Malton, Resided Yearsley (Easingwold). "AS GOLD IN THE FURNACE
HATH HE TRIED THEM & RECEIVED THEM" |
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"I WAS GUIDED BY THY COUNSEL AND AFTERWARD RECEIVED WITH THY GLORY" |
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Private William Earl Jarvis.
2001. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John Henry and Emma Jarvis, of 20, St. Sepulchre St., Scarborough. Killed 23 June 1916. Aged 21. Born Scarborough, Enlisted Scarborough. |
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Private Gilbert Bale Robinson.
3900. 5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mrs. B. B. Murray, of Branton Court, Farnham, Knaresborough. Killed 6 July 1916. Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Farnham (Knaresborough). |
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Private William Levi Rodmell.
3025. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of James William and Eliza Jane Williamson (formerly Rodmell), of 13, Seal St., Warrenby, Redcar. Killed 5 July 1916. Aged 18. Enlisted Redcar, Resided Warrenby. "GRANT HIM O LORD
ETERNAL REST" |
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Private Harold Smith. 2263. 5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Smith, of 7, Wolfreton Lane, Springhead, Anlaby, Hull. Killed 29 June 1916. Aged 21. Born Sutton (Near Hull), Beverley, Resided Anlaby (Near Hull). (Shown in SDGW as being in the Yorkshire Hussars, but is in the GH Gazette database as being in the Yorkshire Regiment) "WITHIN OUR HEARTS
HE WILL EVER BE OUR DEAREST MEMORY R.I.P." |
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Private Thomas Matthew Smithson.
2929. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John Mathew and Isabel Smithson, of 12, Newby St., Ripon, Yorks. Killed 7 July 1916. Aged 20. Born Ripon, Enlisted Ripon. "GREATER LOVE
HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS" |
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2nd Lieutenant William Andrew Turnbull. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Henry and Fanny Turnbull, of 13, Grosvenor Rd., Scarborough. Killed 17 July 1916. Aged 37. "A GOOD SOLDIER
OF JESUS CHRIST" |
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Private Tom Davis Woodthorpe.
3264. 5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Florrie Woodthorpe, of 2, Clifford Cottages, Walker Gate, Beverley. Killed 17 July 1916. Aged 29. Enlisted Beverley (Yorks). |
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La
Laiterie Military Cemetery (2)
Photo : Bairong Zhang-Marvill (<bairong@zh-m.co.uk>)