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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Regina Trench Cemetery, Grandcourt (France, Somme) |
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Regina
Trench Cemetery, Grandcourt (1)
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>).
On 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, Grandcourt village was reached by part of the 36th (Ulster) Division, but it was not until the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line, early in February 1917, that it was occupied by patrols of the Howe Battalion, Royal Naval Division. To the south-east of it is Courcelette, taken by the 2nd Canadian Division on 15 September 1916.
Regina Trench was a German earthwork, captured for a time by the 5th Canadian Brigade on 1 October 1916, attacked again by the 1st and 3rd Canadian Divisions on 8 October, taken in part by the 18th and 4th Canadian Divisions on 21 October, and finally cleared by the 4th Canadian Division on 11 November 1916.
The original part of the cemetery (now Plot II, Rows A to D) was made in the winter of 1916-1917. The cemetery was completed after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields of Courcelette, Grandcourt and Miraumont; most date from October 1916 to February 1917.
Two considerable groups of scattered graves, classed as cemeteries, were concentrated in to Regina Trench Cemetery.
Regina Trench Cemetery now contains 2,279 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 1,077 of the burials are unidentified, but there are special memorials to 14 casualties believed to be buried among them. One American airman is also buried in the cemetery.
Amongst the graves are those of 26 soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
We are extremely grateful to Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) who has generously provided the photographs on this page.
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Lance Corporal Arthur Arey.
15205. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 29 September 1916. Born York, Enlisted York. Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Private Thomas William Armstrong.
14699. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 30 September 1916. Born Ryhope (Sunderland), Enlisted Sunderland, Resided Ryhope. Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Private John Bewick. 16138. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mrs. Sarah Bewick, of 13, Woodbine St., Hendon, Sunderland. Killed 30 September 1916. Aged 21. Born Sunderland, Enlisted Sunderland. "THO FAR AWAY
THY LEAVE TO SEE BUT NOT TOO FAR TO REMEMBER THEE" Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Private Frank Bradford.18402.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 28 September 1916. Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Darlington. Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Corporal James Burrows. 12214.
6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 30 September 1916. Born Battersea (London), Enlisted Middlesbrough. Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Lance Corporal William Cress.
22895. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 28 September 1916. Born Darlington, Enlisted Richmond (Yorks). Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Private Cuthbert Delap. 17662.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 27 September 1916. Born Houghton-le-Spring, Enlisted Houghton-le-Spring, Resided Newbottle (Fencehouses). Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Private John Henry Dickinson.
33250. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 29 September 1916. Born Scampston (Yorks), Enlisted Malton, Resided Scampston. (Name spelt "Dickenson" in SDGW) Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Lance Corporal James Dodd, 10716. 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 27 September 1916. . Born Liverpool, Enlisted Stockton-on-Tees. Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Private Harry Easton, 33246.
6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Porritt, of 3, East St., Loftus, Yorks. Killed 30 September 1916. Aged 19. Enlisted Loftus. "THY WILL BE DONE"
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Private William Ebden. 18250.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Charles and Margaret Ebden. of 9, Burnett St., Merrington Lane, Spennymoor, Co. Durham. Killed 27 September 1916. Aged 20. Born Spennymoor, Enlisted Spennymoor. "GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN"
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Serjeant William Grayley, DCM.
8899. 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 30 September 1916. Aged 26. Born Stranton (West Hartlepool), Enlisted Richmond, Resided 15 Carr Street, West Hartlepool. Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Serjeant Laurence Philip Harrison,
18708. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of William Northedge Harrison and Eleanor Catherine Harrison. of 86, Church St., Gainsborough; husband of Winifred Harrison, of 12, Lord St., Gainsborough. Educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, and Sheffield College. Head Master of W. Butterwick's School. Killed 27 September 1916. Aged 28. Born Gainsborough (Lincs), Enlisted Darlington, Resided Gainsborough. "AT REST IN THE LORD
UNTIL THE DAY DAWNS" Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Corporal William Hurd, MM. 220446. 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 3354 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of George and Sarah Ann Hurd; husband of Isabel Hurd, of Newland's Farm, Cloughton, Scarborough. Killed 24 August 1918. Aged 24. Born Cloughton (Yorks), Enlisted Scarborough, Resided Cloughton. "THOUGH DEATH DIVIDES
STILL MEMORY CLINGS" Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Private Thomas Jones. 18562.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 30 September 1916. Born Ferryhill (Durham), Enlisted Ferryhill. Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Private William Jowett. 10516.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 30 September 1916. Born Pudsey (Yorks), Enlisted Leeds. Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Private Sam Linley. 7600. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mr. A. Linley, of 14, Plevna Terrace, Hunslet, Leeds. Killed 30 September 1916. Aged 32. Born Leeds, Enlisted Bradford, Resided Hunslet (Leeds). Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Private James Malcolm. 18174.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 27 September 1916. Born Burnmoor (Durham), Enlisted Houghton-le-Spring, Resided Grasswell (Fencehouses). Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Private John Earle Pick. 18617. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of the late Thomas O. I. and Eleanor Pick, of Street House, Newsham, Thirsk, Yorks. Was owner of the above farm, and Rector's Warden of Kirkby Wiske. Killed 30 September 1916. Aged 38. Born Newsham, Enlisted Thirsk, Resided Newsham. "IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE
OF A DEAR BROTHER" Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Private Ernest Alfred Randell,
33260. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Died 30 September 1916. Born Branscombe (Honeyton, Devon), Enlisted Catterick. Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Corporal Charles Henry Rodgers,
11155. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 29 September 1916. Born Skinningrove (Yorks), Enlisted Richmond (Yorks), Resided Boosbeck (S O). Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Corporal Cecil Edgar Sheppard.
8036. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, of 90, Beverley St., Nottingham; husband of Annie Sheppard, of 12, Roberts St., Sneinton Road, Nottingham. Killed 27 September 1916. Aged 30. Enlisted Richmond (Yorks), Resided Nottingham. "LOVING MEMORY
KEEP HIM EVER NEAR DEAR HUSBAND ANNE SHEPPARD, NOTTINGHAM" Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Private John Walker Stainthorpe,
8674. 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 27 September 1916. Born Staithes (Yorks), Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Grangetown. Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Private Thomas Thompson. 17652.
6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 27 September 1916. Born Sedgefield (Durham), Enlisted Durham. Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Private Sydney Tolmie. 15628.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 28 September 1916. Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Durham, Resided Spennymoor. (Shown on the Spennymoor War Memorial as "S A Tolmie", but neither Birth / Census Records show evidence of a second name.) Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Private Henry Wardle. 17722. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 30 September 1916. Born Leeds, Enlisted Leeds. Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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A Soldier of the Great War, Known Unto
God. Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>). |
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Regina
Trench Cemetery, Grandcourt (2)
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>).
Regina Trench Cemetery, Grandcourt (3)
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>).