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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Le Treport Military Cemetery, Seine Maritime (France) |
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Le Treport Military Cemetery - 1
Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>
During the First World War, Le Treport was an important hospital centre. No.3 General Hospital was established there in November 1914, No.16 General Hospital in February 1915, No.2 Canadian General Hospital in March 1915, No.3 Convalescent Depot in June 1915 and Lady Murray's B.R.C.S. Hospital in July 1916. These hospitals contained nearly 10,000 beds.
No.47 General Hospital arrived in March 1917 and later that year, a divisional rest camp and a tank training depot were established in the neighbourhood. By March 1919, the hospitals had been closed and Le Treport became the headquarters of the 68th Division, which re-formed there before going to the Rhine. The divisional supply depot was closed in June 1919.
There are now 445 Commonwealth burials of the First World War in the cemetery. Three of the four Second World War burials are unidentified.
The cemetery, one of the first three Commission cemeteries to be built after the First World war, was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
We are extremely grateful to Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>,
for the photos of the cemetery and the gravestones.
Select one of the thumbnail images, below, for a larger sized image which
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Private Alfred Addison. 1189.
5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of George and Charlotte Addison, of Sand Hutton, York. Killed 30 July 1915. Aged 25. Born Sand Hutton, Enlisted Sand Hutton. |
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Private Walter Henry Corps.
1518. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment 150th Brigade, 50th Division. Eldest son of James and Catherine Corps of Bedale Yorkshire. Died 5 May 1915. Aged 21. Born Bedale. Enlisted, Bedale. Resided, Masham |
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Private Robert Longstaff. 15065.
7th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mary Ann Longstaff. Killed 29 September 1915. Aged 31. Born Usworth (Durham), Enlisted Sunderland. "AND IN MEMORY OF TRIMMER
J J M LONGSTAFF...." |
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Private Peter Martin. 21131.
7th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. (Served as FINNIGAN). Son of John and Elizabeth Ann Martin. Killed 21 September 1915. Aged 22. Born Sunderland, Enlisted Wareham, Resided Sunderland. |
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Private John Thomas Monck. 3/9331.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Thomas and Mary Jane Monck, of Marske-by-Sea. Killed 10 October 1916. Aged 35. Born Marske-by-Sea (Yorks), Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Commondale (Grosmont). |
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Private John Joseph Murphy.
10221. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John Joseph and Emily Alice Murphy. Killed 24 May 1915. Aged 22. Born Old Ford (London), Enlisted Stratford, Resided Bromley-By-Bow. |
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Private Joseph O'Boyle. 17515.
10th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mary and John O'Boyle, of Co. Mayo, Ireland. Killed 18 October 1915. Aged 39. Born Kilmore (Ballana - Co. Mayo), Enlisted Wallsend. |
The three headstones below are for persons other than in the Yorkshire Regiment, and are of interest in themselves.
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The Revd Hubert Gordon Allan, YMCA. Son of James Alexander and Margaret Allan, of Perth, Ontario. Died 7 April 1915. Aged 29. "REGINA CANADA HIS SERVANTS SHALL SERVE HIM AND SHALL SEE HIS FACE" |
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Margaret Trevenen Arnold, VAD
Member.
Daughter of Edward and Minnie Arnold, of Pook Hill, Chiddingfold, Surrey. Died 12 March 1916. Aged 31. |
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Flight Lieutenant Desmond Palmer
Perrin, Royal New Zealand Air Force. Son of Alfred Charles and Margaret Theresa Perrin, of Wellington, New Zealand; husband of Anna Margarette Beth Perrin (nee Cleland), of Coatbridge, Scotland. Died 10 September 1944. Of the four WW2 graves, this is the only one that is identified. |
Le
Treport Military Cemetery - 2
Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>