Yorkshire Regiment War Graves, - Prospect Hill Cemetery, Gouy (France, Aisne)

Prospect Hill Cemetery
(Maintenance being carried out on the Cross of Sacrifice)
Photo : Chris Cosgrove (<trainscpc@aol.com>)

On 3 October 1918, the 1st King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry captured Prospect Hill, after Le Catelet and Gouy had been taken by the 50th (Northumbrian) Division, the 6th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 4th King's Royal Rifle Corps. The cemetery was made by the 50th Division and the 18th Field Ambulance immediately after. Plot I formed the original cemetery but this was increased after the Armistice when graves were brought in, mainly from the battlefields north of Gouy, and almost exclusively of men who died in October 1918.

The cemetery contains 538 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 115 of the burials are unidentified and a special memorial commemorates one casualty believed to be buried among them. A group of graves in Plot IV, Row F, are identified as a whole but not individually. The cemetery also contains the grave of one Commonwealth airman of the Second World War.

8 soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment are buried here.

We are extremely grateful to Chris Cosgrove (<trainscpc@aol.com>) who has generously provided the photographs of the headstones and the cemetery.

Click on the thumbnail image of a headstone for a larger version of the photo which opens in a new window.

		Private Fred Bruce. 46829. 9th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John and Ann Elizabeth Bruce, of 12, Queen St. Fall, East Ardsley, Wakefield. Killed 5 October 1918. Aged 20. Born East Ardsley (Wakefield), Enlisted Wakefield, Resided East Ardsley. "AT REST"

		Lance Corporal George William Cartwright. 76007. 1st Battalion Tank Corps, formerly 28363 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Cartwright, of 9, Black St., Middlesbrough. Died 29 September 1918. Aged 30. Born Middlesbrough (Yorks), Enlisted Middlesbrough.

		Serjeant James Dent, MM. 8916. 9th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Mary Ellen Dent, of 28, Allerton St., Halifax, Yorks. Killed 6 October 1918. Aged 37. Born Leicester, Enlisted Halifax. (SDGW gives Battalion incorrectly as 2nd; GH Gazette database states Battalion = 9th)

		Lieutenant Harry Dixon. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 6 October 1918

		Private Percy Latheron. 11598. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of A. Latheron, of 13, Pearson St., North Ormesby, Middlesbrough. Died 4 October 1918. Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.

		Private John James Marrin. 15646. 9th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Sarah Marrin, of 12, John St., Southwick, Sunderland. Killed 18 September 1916. Aged 29. Born Seaham Colliery, Enlisted Sunderland. "REST IN PEACE AMEN"

Lance Corporal William Todd, 11740. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of the late William and Isabella Todd. Native of Durham. Killed 5 October 1918. Aged 26. Born Houghton-le-Spring, Enlisted Shiney Row, Resided Fencehouses (Durham).

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