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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Neuville-Vitasse Road Cemetery, Pas de Calais (France) |
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The village of Neuville-Vitasse was captured by the 56th (London) Division on 9 April 1917, almost entirely lost at the end of March 1918, and cleared at the end of the following August. The cemetery was made by units of the 33rd Division after the first capture of the village, and two other burials were added in June 1917. Neuville-Vitasse Road Cemetery now contains 86 First World War burials, 11 of them unidentified.
11 identified soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment are buried
in this cemetery, all of them killed on 9 April 1917.
Unfortunately, the headstones for their graves are very badly weathered, and
the resulting photographs of the headstones are difficult to read.
Neuville-Vitasse Road Cemetery, Pas de Calais (France)
(Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>)
All of the gravestone photos are by Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>
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Private Thomas Smith Brown, 39064.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John and Sarah Jane Brown;
husband of Eliza Brown, of 80, High Street East, Sunderland. Killed
9 April 1917. Aged 35. Born Sunderland, Enlisted Sunderland. |
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Private John Robert Clark, 36280.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 21852 East Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Thomas and Jane Clark, of 68, Keldgate, Beverley, Yorks. Killed
9 April 1917. Aged 23. Born Beverley (Yorks), Enlisted Beverley. |
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Corporal Ernest Jones. 36040.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of William Jones, of 58, Grange
Rd. East, Middlesbrough; husband of Betsy Jones, of 131, Waterloo Rd.,
Middlesbrough. Killed 9 April 1917. Aged 28. Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough. |
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Private John Longbottom, 30671.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 9 April 1917. Born Huddersfield, Enlisted Leeds, Resided Huddersfield. |
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Private Thomas Wilson Makepeace,
39082. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of L. M. Makepeace,
of 20, Frank St., Sunderland Rd., Gateshead. Killed 9 April 1917. Born North Shields, Enlisted Gateshead-on-Tyne. |
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Private John James McDougall, 38852.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Duncan McDougall, of 21, Hibbert
Rd., Barrow-in-Furness. Killed 9 April 1917. Aged 34. Born Haverthwaite (Lancs), Enlisted Barrow. |
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Private Robert Miller. 30684.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, 21st Brigade, 30th Division. Husband
of Ethel Miller, of Little Crakehall, Bedale, Yorks. Killed 9 April
1917. Age 36. Born Pormoak (Kinross), Enlisted Bedale, Resided Aiskew. |
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Private John Mitton, 30383.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Warren and Helen Mitton; husband
of Mary Teresa Mitton, of Hill Top, Leyburn, Yorks. Killed 9 April 1917.
Aged 40. Born Hawes, Enlisted Leyburn (Yorks), Resided Askrigg. |
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Private Harold Victor Proctor, 33439.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 23669 East Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 9 April 1917. Born Hull, Enlisted Hull. |
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Private James Stansfield, 13356.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Emma Jane Dewhirst (formerly
Stanfield), of East Longley, Norland, Yorks. Killed 9 April 1917. Born Sowerby Bridge (Yorks), Enlisted Halifax, Resided Sowerby Bridge. (SDGW has name spelt as "Stansfield". Wendy Buxton <wenann012001@yahoo.co.uk>, a grand-daughter spells the name as "Stansfield".) |
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Serjeant Arthur Wilkinson, 7572.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Robert and Fannie Wilkinson,
of Fryton, Slingsby, Yorks. Killed on 9 April 1917. Aged 32. Born Bulmer (Yorks), Enlisted Malton, Resided Fryton (Slingsby, Yorks) |
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