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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Belgium |
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Ypres Reservoir Cemetery
(Photo : Richard Roberts, <richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
From October 1914 to the autumn of 1918, Ypres (now Ieper) was at the centre of a salient held by Commonwealth (and for some months by French) forces. From April 1915, it was bombarded and destroyed more completely than any other town of its size on the Western Front, but even so certain buildings remained distinguishable. The ruins of the cathedral and the cloth hall stood together in the middle of the city, part of the infantry barracks stood in an angle of the south walls and the prison, reservoir and water tower were together at the western gate. Three cemeteries were made near the western gate: two between the prison and the reservoir, both now removed into the third, and the third on the north side of the prison. The third was called at first the "Cemetery North of the Prison," later "Ypres Reservoir North Cemetery, and now Ypres Reservoir Cemetery. This cemetery was begun in October 1915 and used by fighting units and field ambulances until after the Armistice, when it contained 1,099 graves. The cemetery was later enlarged when graves were brought in from the battlefields of the salient and smaller burial grounds.
There are now 2,613 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World
War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 1,034 of the burials are unidentified.
Amongst the headstones are thirteen for soldiers who served with the Yorkshire
Regiment.
Another view of the cemetery is shown at the bottom of this
page.
Photos of the cemetery and headstones are by Richard Roberts, <richard.nsw@googlemail.com>
unless otherwise shown.
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Corporal George William Jackson Colbridge.
23180. 8th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John and Elizabeth
Colbridge, of 6, Midland St., Hillhouse, Huddersfield. Killed 10 October
1917. Aged 21. Born Birstall (Leeds), Enlisted Huddersfield. |
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Lance Corporal James Colton.
42554. 8th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 10131 E Yorks
Regt. Killed 8 June 1917. Born Sheffield, Enlisted Sheffield. (Note that L/Cpl's headstone is inscribed with the badge of his former regiment, - not the Yorkshire Regiment) |
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Private Bernard Corr, 12715.
22nd Coy Labour Corps, formerly 32022 Yorkshire Regiment. Killed on
11 September 1917. Born Thornaby-on-Tees (Yorks), Enlisted Stockton-on-Tees (Durham). |
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Private Arthur Crossman. 30639.
1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 26179 the Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of Mrs. Crossman, of 19, Hythe Station Rd., Greenstead,
Colchester; husband of Ada Maria Green (formerly Crossman), of 16, Whitehall
Rd., Old Heath, Colchester. Killed 25 April 1918. Aged 26. Born Colchester, Enlisted Colchester. |
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Lance Corporal Joseph Eltringham.
14493. 8th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 21 September 1917. Born Ryhope, Enlisted Sunderland, Resided Ryhope. |
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Private Henry Gurney. 4969.
XVIII Corps Cyclist Battalion Army Cyclist Corps, formerly 11114 the
Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 6 November 1917. Born Silksworth (Sunderland), Enlisted South Shields (Durham). |
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Private Joseph Hewerdine, 10351.
2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Rose Staples (formerly
Hewerdine), of 19, Howard St., Park Lane, Leeds, and the late George
Hewerdine. Killed 22 October 1914. Aged 20. Born Leeds, Enlisted Leeds. |
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Private James Melling, 34148.
8th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 21976 Cheshire Regt.
Killed 18 October 1917. Born Everton (Liverpool), Enlisted Rook Ferry (Cheshire), Resided Liverpool. |
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Private Edward Percy Padget.
33038. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Padget, of 114, High St., Brotton, Yorks. Killed 27 December 1917. Aged
21. Born Brotton (Cleveland, Yorks) Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Brotton (Yorks). |
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Private Samuel Teasdale. 32018.
16th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, transferred to (13403) Labour Corps.
Son of Thomas and Catherine Teasdale, of 43, Prince Charles St., Middlesbrough.
Died 29 September 1917. Aged 30. Born Middlesbrough (Yorks), Enlisted Middlesbrough. |
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Corporal George Thompson. 15355.
9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Brother of Mrs. A. Holmes, of "Sunny
View," Burniston, Cloughton, Scarborough. Killed 20 September 1917.
Aged 25. Born Scarborough, Enlisted Scarborough. |
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Private Arthur Leslie Timms,
242713. 9th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of George Timms, of
Cross Hill, Masham, Yorks. Killed 20 September 1917. Aged 21. Born Ellington (Yorks), Enlisted Masham. |
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Private John Wallace, 30465.
51st Coy Labour Corps, formerly 9384 Yorkshire Regiment. Killed on 19
March 1918. Born Stockton-on-Tees (Co. Durham), Enlisted Hull (Yorks). Photo by John Sly (<sly211@btinternet.com>) |
Grave of an Unknown Soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment, Ypres Reservoir Cemetery
(Photo : Richard Roberts, <richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
Ypres Reservoir Cemetery
(Photo : Richard Roberts, <richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)