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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Ely Cemetery (Cambs) |
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General view of Ely Cemetery
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
Ely Cemetery contains 13 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 14 of the 1939-1945 war. There is also 1 non world war burial.
One soldier who served with the Yorkshire Regiment is buried in this cemetery.
There is also a family memorial to a Yorkshire Regiment Officer who was killed
at the Battle of the Somme.
We are extremely grateful to Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
for providing the photographs of the headstones and of the cemetery.
For a larger view of each headstone which opens in a new window, select one
of the images below.
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Private Edward William Everett.
7605. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 3883 Cambs Regt. Son of Arthur William and Rose Everett, of 54, Barton Rd., Ely. Killed 19 January 1917. Aged 22. Born Ely (Cambs), Enlisted Cambridge, Resided Ely. |
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Major Victor Louis Sydney Beckett. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of the late Dr. Francis Mears Beckett and Harriet Elizabeth Beckett, of St. Audrey's, Ely, Cambs. Killed 14 July 1916. Aged 34. Buried HEILLY STATION CEMETERY. "IN / LOVING MEMORY / OF
FRANCIS MEARS BECKETT MRCS LSA VD BORN JAN 6 1836 PASSED AWAY JAN 5 1903 REQUIEM AETERNAM DONA EI, DOMINE ET LUX PERPETUA LUCEAT EI ALSO HARRIET ELIZABETH BECKETT HIS WIDOW / BORN MARCH 4 1851 AT REST MARCH 31 1912 ALSO IN LOVING HONOURED MEMORY OF VICTOR LOUIS SYDNEY BECKETT MAJOR - THE YORKSHIRE REGIMENT DIED OF WOUNDS AT BATTLE OF SOMME JULY 14 - 1916. AGED 34. INTERRED AT HEILLY PICARDY |
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Commemoration of Major Beckett on the Beckett Family Headstone
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)