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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Savy British Cemetery (France, Aisne) |
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Savy
British Cemetery - 1
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
Savy was taken by the 32nd Division on the 1st April 1917, after hard fighting, and Savy Wood on the 2nd. On the 21st March 1918 Savy and Roupy were successfully defended by the 30th Division, but the line was withdrawn after nightfall. The village and the wood were retaken on the 17th September 1918 by the 34th French Division, fighting on the right of the British IX Corps. Savy British Cemetery was made in 1919, and the graves from the battlefields and from small cemeteries in the neighbourhood were concentrated into it.
There are now over 850, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, more than half are unidentified. Memorials are erected in the cemetery to 68 soldiers (chiefly of the 19th King's Liverpools and the 17th Manchesters), buried by the Germans in their cemetery on the St. Quentin-Roupy road, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. The Cemetery covers an area of 2,555 square metres and is enclosed by a low rubble wall.
12 soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment are buried in this cemetery.
We are extremely grateful to Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) who has generously provided the photographs of the cemetery and the headstones on this page.
Click on the thumbnail image of a headstone for a larger version of the photo which opens in a new window.
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Private Benjamin Barwick. 72932. Machine Gun Corps, formerly 24201 Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 21 March 1918. Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough. |
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Private Norman Caines.
48085. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 5/27333 7th T R Battn. Son of Ezra and Clara Caines, of Hatfield Hall Farm, Outwood, Wakefield. Yorks. Killed 22 March 1918. Aged 19. Born Outwood, Enlisted Wakefield. "REST IN PEACE"
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Serjeant James Henry Elliott. 11834.
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mr. J. H. Elliott, of 254, Grove Green Rd, Leytonstone, Essex. Killed 22 March 1918. Aged 25. Born Hackney (Middx.), Enlisted Stratford (Essex), Resided Leyton. |
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Private William Fletcher.
46775. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly TR/6/10691 13th T R Battn. Son of E. J. and T. Fletcher of Pelsall, Staffs. Killed 22 March 1918. Aged 19. Born Darlaston (Staffs), Enlisted Walsall, Resided Pelsall. |
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Private Albert James Hunt, 36223.
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 6299 East Yorks Regt. Killed 21 March 1918. Born Birmingham, Enlisted Birmingham. |
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Private Ernest Jinman.
235307. 19th Battalion The King's (Liverpool Regiment), formerly 242950 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of George and Martha Jinman, husband of Emily E. Jinman of 22, Greys Road, Old Town, Eastbourne. Born at Eastbourne. Killed 22 March 1918. Aged 33. Born Eastbourne (Sussex), Enlisted Eastbourne, Resided Eastbourne. "PEACE PERFECT PEACE"
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Private Austin Midwood. 29466. 16th Battalion Highland Light Infantry, formerly 23650 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Frederick and Jane Anna Midwood, of 94, Wath Rd., Elsecar, Barnsley. Killed 30 March 1917. Aged 22. Born Barnsley (Yorks), Enlisted Rotherham (Yorks). "ON THE OTHER SIDE OF JORDAN
WE HOPE TO MEET AGAIN" |
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Serjeant Thomas Moore.
6903. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 21 March 1918. Born Bradford, Enlisted Bradford. |
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Lance
Corporal William James Nightingale,
39228. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of James and Minnie Nightingale, of 49, High St., Coatham, Redcar; husband of Elizabeth Nightingale, of 70, Hargreave Terrace, Darlington. Killed 22 March 1918. Aged 30. Born Grangetown (Yorks), Enlisted Darlington. |
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Private Albany Dryden Scott. 242699.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 22 March 1918. Born Bradford, Enlisted Scarborough, Resided Brompton (SO, Yorks). |
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Private Thomas Harold
Simpson. 48118. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 3/30508 15th T R Battn. Son of Mrs. Marion Simpson, of 34, Bedford St., Bradford, Yorks. Killed 21 March 1918. Aged 19. Born Bradford, Enlisted Bradford. "REST IN PEACE"
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Lance Corporal William
Ernest Taylor. 235285. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Albert and Prudence Taylor, of 490, Attercliffe Road, Sheffield, Yorks. Killed 22 March 1918. Born Sheffield, Enlisted Sheffield. "GOD GAVE HIS ONLY SON
TO SAVE SINNERS MOTHERS GAVE THEIR SONS TO SAVE OTHERS" |
Savy
British Cemetery - 2
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
Savy
British Cemetery - 3
(Serjeant Moore's headstone, right, with three unknown Yorkshire Regiment
soldiers headstones to the left of it.)
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
Savy
British Cemetery - 4
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Savy British Cemetery - 5
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