Yorkshire Regiment War Graves
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Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery
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Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from other burial grounds in the area and from the battlefields. Within the cemetery stands the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, the Australian national memorial erected to commemorate all Australian soldiers who fought in France and Belgium during the First World War, to their dead, and especially to those of the dead whose graves are not known. There are 10,700 Australian servicemen named on the memorial.

In the cemetery itself there are now 2,142 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 609 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to five casualties known or believed to be buried among them, and to 15 buried in other cemeteries whose graves could not be found on concentration.

Of the men of the Yorkshire Regiment, there are several graves containing unidentified bodies, - but known to be of the Yorkshire Regiment.


The grave of Pte S W Brown
One of the graves of unknown soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment
The grave of Pte S W Brown
(believed to be buried in the cemetery)
One of the graves of unknown soldiers
of the Yorkshire Regiment


Private Stanley William Brown, 14591. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John and Elizabeth Brown, of 8, Oswald Terrace, Grangetown. Sunderland. Killed 1 July 1916. Aged 24.
Born Monkwearmouth, Enlisted Sunderland, Resided Grangetown.

Also buried in Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery in an identified grave;-

Major John Silvester Palliser. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Croix de Guerre (Belgium). Mentioned in Despatches. Son of William and Frances Amelia Palliser, of "Brentwood," Flamborough, Bridlington, Yorks. Born at Rotherham, Yorks. Volunteered Aug.1911. Killed 9 August 1918. Aged 25.

CSM H Paylor. 241209. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Labour Corps, transf. to (575902) 237th Prisoner of War Coy. Son of John Paylor, of Richmond, Yorks; husband of Florence Cordelia Paylor, of 12, Hampden St., Bishophill, York. Died 25 November 1918. Aged 30.
(Not shown in SDGW)


Below are some photos of the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery.

The view South through the Cemetery towards the Memorial, with the Cross of Remembrance.
The view South through the Cemetery towards the Memorial, with the Cross of Remembrance.
(Photo : Edward Nicholl)

Looking North towards the Cross of Remembrance
Looking North towards the Cross of Remembrance
(Photo : Edward Nicholl)

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