The Yorkshire Regiment War Graves

The Cross of Sacrifice and Screen Wall in HIghgate Cemetery (West)
Photo : Derek Walker

Highgate Cemetery is between Highgate Hill and Highgate West Hill, North London, and is divided by Swains Road. The older part being on the Western side and the newer part on the Eastern side. The entrance gates to both sides are opposite one another and there are war burials in both portions.

Visitors are advised that an entrance fee is charged at this cemetery.

There are 257 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-18 war and a further 59 from the 1939-45 war here. Those whose graves could not be marked by headstone are named upon a Screen Wall memorial erected near the Cross of Sacrifice inside the entrance to the older part of the cemetery.

One former soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment who flew in the Royal Air Force is commemorated on this Screen Wall (located in the Western section of Highgate Cemetery). The commemoration records him as being in the Yorkshire Regiment.

We are extremely grateful to Derek Walker for the photographs taken in Highgate Cemetery.

Lieutenant Henry Leslie Harrison. Royal Air Force, formerly 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Henry George and Emma Jane Harrison, of 38, Richmond Rd., Barnsbury, London. Died at home 28 October 1918. Aged 23.

(2nd Lieutenant Harrison first joined the 4th Battalion on 1 July 1916, and was wounded at the Battle of the Somme in September 1916. He was promoted to Lieutenant just over a year later. No data on service with the RAF.)

The Screen Wall in HIghgate Cemetery (West) on which LIeutenant Harrisonj is Commemorated

The Screen Wall in HIghgate Cemetery (West) on which LIeutenant Harrison is Commemorated
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Photo : Derek Walker