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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul |
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Outtersteene was captured by the III Corps on 13 October 1914 but no Commonwealth burials took place there for nearly three years. In August 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres, the 2nd, 53rd and 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Stations came to Outtersteene, and the first and last of these remained until March 1918. The hamlet was captured by the Germans on 12 April 1918, and retaken by the 9th, 29th and 31st Divisions, with the ridge beyond it, on 18 and 19 August, but the cemetery was not used again during hostilities. After the Armistice, over 900 graves of 1914 and 1918 were brought into Plots I, II and IV from the battlefields surrounding Outtersteene and from certain small cemeteries.
Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension now contains 1,393 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 499 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 14 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Second World War burials number 72, of which 23 are unidentified.
6 identified soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment are buried in this cemetery, the headstones for two of whom have been photographed.
Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul
(Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>)
Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul
Photo by Lynne Cheetham, <david.cheetham1@btinternet.com>
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2nd Lieutenant Bernard Bocking, MC.
12th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, attached to 11th Battalion East Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of the Rev. J. C. and Mrs. Sarah Bocking, of Gnosall Vicarage,
Stafford. Killed 21 August 1918. Aged 20. |
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Private Alfred Edwin Froggatt.
42334. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 164255 RFA. Son of
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Edwin Froggatt, of 38, Mountford St., Sparkhill,
Birmingham. Killed 17 December 1917. Aged 20. Born Sparkhill (Warwick), Enlisted Birmingham. |
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Private Leslie Hodgson, MM,
201872. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Frances Ann Hodgson,
of Rudby, Hutton Rudby, Yorks. Killed 11 April 1918. Aged 26. Born Picton (Yorks), Enlisted Redcar Photo by Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com> |
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Private Francis William Newton.
38114. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Frederick and Isabella
Newton, of 36, Great Russell St., Listerhills, Bradford, Yorks. Killed
1 September 1917. Aged 19. Born Bradford, Enlisted Bradford. (Shown in SDGW as "William Newton") Photo by Lynne Cheetham, <david.cheetham1@btinternet.com>, a great-niece of Francis Newton |
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Private Charles Henry William Stemp.
35254. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 35067 9th T R Battalion.
Killed 11 April 1918. Born Ealing (Middlesex), Enlisted Ealing. |
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Private John Kirk Taylor, 21373.
13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Brother of Mrs S Bidwell, of 17,
Cleveland St., Normanby, Eston, Yorks. Died 9 April 1918. Born Normanby (Yorks), Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Normanby. |
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Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul
(Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>)