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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Ypres Town Cemetery, Belgium |
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Ypres Town Cemetery
(Photo : Richard Roberts, <richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
From October 1914 to the summer of 1918, Ypres (now Ieper)
formed the centre of a salient held by Commonwealth (and for a while French)
forces. From April 1915, the town was bombarded and destroyed more completely
than any other town of its size on the western front. YPRES TOWN CEMETERY,
close to the Menin Gate, was used from October 1914 to May 1915, and once
in 1918. The cemetery contains 145 Commonwealth burials of the First World
War, grouped in plots among the civil graves.
Amongst the headstones six are for soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment. All
were members of the 2nd Battalion who first fought near Ypres in October 1914.
We are very grateful to Richard Roberts, <richard.nsw@googlemail.com> who has provided photographs of the cemetery and 5 of the headstones.
To view a larger version of a headstone photo, which opens in a new window, select the thumbnail image.
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Private Joseph Henry Birkin.
8123. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Joseph and Selina Birkin, of 513, Garden Coppice Rd., Nottingham. Killed 25 October 1914. Aged 25. Born Nottingham, Enlisted Peterborough, Resided Nottingham. |
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Corporal Ernest Goddard. 8668. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Goddard, of 71, Adamson Rd., Custom House, London. Killed 26 October 1914. Aged 27. Born Poplar (London), Enlisted Stratford (London). |
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Serjeant Thomas Edward Gray.
8484. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 23 October 1914. Born Bethnal Green, Enlisted Stratford, Resided Edmonton. |
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Captain Claud Giffard Jeffery. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Nellie Jeffery, of Coldingham, Winchfield, Hants. Killed 24 October 1914. Aged 34. |
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Private George Lunn, 7902. 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John and Mary Lunn, of Water End, Brompton, Northallerton, Yorks. Killed 25 October 1914. Aged 28. Born Brompton (Northallerton), Enlisted Richmond (Yorks), Resided Northallerton. |
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Private
Logan Studley, 10397 / 2nd Lieutenant Logan Studley 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 25 October 1914. Aged 18. Buried YPRES TOWN CEMETERY. To read more about this young man, see "Photos, Individuals - S" "DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY COR. XV. 54" Photo provided by Mick McCann. |