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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Oxford Road Cemetery |
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Oxford
Road Cemetery
(The 50th Division Memorial can be seen in the background)
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)
The cemetery is located to the North-East of the town of Ieper.
Oxford Road was the name given to a road running behind the support trenches, from a point west of the village of Wieltje south-eastwards to the Potijze-Zonnebeke road.
Plot I is the original Oxford Road Cemetery and was used by the units fighting on this front from August 1917 to April 1918. In October 1917, another cemetery, known as Oxford Road Cemetery No.2, was started close by and now forms Plot V of the cemetery as it appears today. After the Armistice, Plots II, III and IV were added when scattered graves from the battlefields east and south-east of Ypres (now Ieper) were brought into the cemetery.
There are now 851 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 297 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials commemorate three casualties known to have been buried in the cemetery, but whose graves could not be located.
The 50th Division Memorial stands adjacent to Oxford Road Cemetery.
Amongst the graves in Oxford Road Cemetery are 2 for soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment (photos and details below).
We are extremely grateful to Chris Weekes for photographing the cemetery, and 50th Division Memorial, and the graves of the Yorkshire Regiment soldiers in the cemetery.
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Lance Corporal Robert Blezard. 14190.
10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Robert and Jane Blezard, of Newton-in-Bowland, Clitheroe. Killed 4 October 1917. Aged 27. Born Slaidburn (Clitheroe - Lancs), Enlisted Clitheroe, Resided Newton (Clitheroe). "WORTHY OF EVERLASTING LOVE FROM THOSE HE LEFT BEHIND" |
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Private Thomas William Snell. 12905.
10th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Snell, of 27, St. James' Rd., Jamaica Rd., Bermondsey, London. Killed 4 October 1917. Aged 27. Born Bermondsey (London), Enlisted London, Resided Bermondsey. |
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Oxford
Road Cemetery
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)
The entrance to the Oxford Road Cemetery
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)
The 50th Division Memorial adjacent to the Oxford Road Cemetery
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)
The 50th Division Memorial adjacent to the Oxford Road Cemetery
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)
The 50th Division Memorial adjacent to the Oxford Road Cemetery
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)
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