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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Durham (St. Giles) Churchyard Extension |
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Durham (St. Giles) Churchyard Extension contains 5 burials from the First World War. The cemetery is now extremely overgrown and in need of tidying up.
One soldier who served with the Yorkshire Regiment is buried in this cemetery,
with his burial being almost at the end of the qualifying date for a First
World War headstone.
We are extremely grateful to Norman Cummings (<norman_cummings@hotmail.co.uk>)
for providing the photograph of the headstone and photographs of the cemetery.
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Private Alfred Newton, 22223. 1st
Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Martha Newton, of 29, New Elvet, Durham. Died 9 August 1921. Aged 52. Private Newton's Service Record survives and from this we can see that;- He enlisted on 17 July 1915. He was posted to India on 23 December 1915. He was discharged as being permanently unfit (Rheumatism) on 18 July 1916. He and his wife had four children, - Robert, Elizabeth, Alfred and Charles. |
Private Newton's grave in Durham (St. Giles) Churchyard Extension, - centre
foreground
(Norman Cummings (<norman_cummings@hotmail.co.uk>)
Private
Newton's grave in Durham (St. Giles) Churchyard Extension, - centre background
(Norman Cummings (<norman_cummings@hotmail.co.uk>)