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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Austwick Church Cemetery |
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Austwick Church Cemetery is about 1/2 mile from the centre of Austwick
on the road that heads South West to the main A65 road. A view of the cemetery
taken from Google
Earth is shown below.
One soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment is buried here, together with another
soldier of the First World War.
We are very grateful to Chris Foster of the Craven's Part in the Great War website for permission to use the photograph of the Yorkshire Regiment soldier's headstone.
The headstone for Private Joseph Wood
(Photo : Craven's Part in
the Great War)
Private Joseph Wood. 26298. 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of Mary Frankland Wood. Died at home 17 February 1916. Aged
22.
Born Dalehead (Lancs), Enlisted Skipton, Resided Gargrave (Leeds).
The Austwick Church Cemetery (seen from the road)
View in Google
Earth