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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery (Belgium, West Vlaanderen) |
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Wulverghem-Lindenhoek
Road Military Cemetery (1)
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>).
The cemetery was begun in December 1914 by four battalions of the 5th Division and was called at first Wulverghem Dressing Station Cemetery. It was used until June 1917, and again in September and October 1918, and at the Armistice it contained 162 graves, the present Plot I. Graves were then brought in from the surrounding battlefields and smaller burial grounds.
These formed Plots II-V. Within these later plots almost the whole period of the war is represented, in particular the defence of the Kemmel front in April 1918 and the final advance of September 1918.
There are now 1,010 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 352 of the burials are unidentified, but there are special memorials to two casualties believed to be buried among them and to seven others buried elsewhere whose graves were destroyed in the fighting of 1917-18.
Amongst the graves are those of 2 soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
We are extremely grateful to Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) who has generously provided the photographs on this page.
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Private Joseph Pope. 38746.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 19 June 1917. Born Aughton (Lancs), Enlisted Ormskirk, Resided Aughton. |
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Private Richard Wright. 36759.
19th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, formerly 25183 Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 18 April 1918. Born Gateshead (Durham), Enlisted Middlesbrough (Yorks). Photo by Pearlady of the Find a Grave website. |
Wulverghem-Lindenhoek
Road Military Cemetery (2)
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>).
Wulverghem-Lindenhoek
Road Military Cemetery (3)
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>).