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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery (Belgium, West Vlaanderen) |
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Belgian
Battery Corner Cemetery (1)
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>).
This cemetery occupies a site at a road junction where three batteries of Belgian artillery were positioned in 1915. The cemetery was begun by the 8th Division in June 1917 after the Battle of Messines (although one grave in Plot III, Row A, predates this) and it was used until October 1918, largely for burials from a dressing station in a cottage near by. Almost half of the graves are of casualties who belonged, or were attached, to artillery units.
There are now 573 First World War casualties buried or commemorated in this cemetery. Seven of the burials are unidentified and special memorials commemorate three casualties known to have been buried in the cemetery, but whose graves could not be located.
Amongst the graves is that of 1 soldier 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 Henry Trousdale 44019.
22nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry, formerly 28004 the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 2 July 1917. Born Bilsdale (Yorks), Enlisted Stokesley, Resided Bilsdale. |
Belgian
Battery Corner Cemetery (2)
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>).