The Yorkshire Regiment War Graves

Hebburn Cemetery contains 41 scattered burials of the First World War. Of the 52 Second World War burials, 33 form a war graves group in Section C. Among these graves is the collective grave of 20 sailors who were killed on 9 May 1940 when the destroyer H.M.S."Kelly" was torpedoed whilst in action against German E-boats in the North Sea. Four of these men could not be identified.
There is also a memorial to the officers and men who died when the "Kelly" was sunk during the Battle of Crete in 1941. The memorial was erected by surviving members of the crew and employees of the Hebburn shipyard where she was built.

Two soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment are buried in this cemetery.

We are extremely grateful to Norman Cummings (<norman_cummings@hotmail.co.uk>) for providing the photographs of the headstones and of the cemetery.

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Private Edward Ellis. 30059.
Depot East Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 20430 the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Thomas and Ellen Ellis; husband of Lily Sanderson (formerly Ellis), of 2, Oxford St., Hunwick, Willington, Co. Durham. Born at Hebburn.
Died at home 5 September 1918. Aged 30.
Born Glasgow, Enlisted North Shields, Resided Tynemouth.
Buried HEBBURN CEMETERY.
(SDGW says born in Glasgow, CWGC says born in Hebburn!)

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Private Thomas Morby. 14653.
transf. to (392521). Eastern Command Labour Centre Labour Corps.
Son of Mrs. Racheal Morby, of 76, Philip St., Hebburn.
Died at home 27 March 1920. Aged 25.

Private Morby joined the Yorkshire Regiment on the day war was declared (3 September 1914), and first fought in France in August 1915. Almost exactly one year later he was wounded (GSW to the head), and in October 1917 was transferred to the Labour Corps as being unfit for regular service.

Private Morby's grave in Hebburn Cemetery, - centre distance
(Norman Cummings (<norman_cummings@hotmail.co.uk>)