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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Plaine French National Cemetery (France, Bas-Rhin) |
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Plaine
French National Cemetery
Photo : Commonwealth
War Graves Commission
Plaine French National Cemetery was made in 1921.
There are now over 40, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 10 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to four soldiers known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate five buried at Labroque.
Commonwealth graves came from; Albet (or Albe) Communal Cemetery German Extension, Liepvre Military Cemetery and from Ste. Marie-Auz-Mines German Cemetery.
One soldier who served with the Yorkshire Regiment is buried here.
The gravestone photo is by Chris Cosgrove (<trainscpc@aol.com>).
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Private Ellis Taylor Butterfield.
235308. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 6266 West Riding Regt. Son of John Ellis Butterfield and Elizabeth Anne Butterfield, of 2, Goodbey, Oakworth, Keighley, Yorks. Killed 19 June 1918. Aged 20. Born Holmfield (Halifax), Enlisted Keighley. |
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