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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Kensal Green (All Souls') Cemetery |
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The
Screen Wall in the First World War Plot in Kensal Green (All Souls) Cemetery
Photo : Derek Walker
Kensal Green (All Souls') Cemetery contains burials of both wars.
Half of the 473 First World War graves form a plot in the south-west section
of the cemetery, the rest form small groups or are scattered throughout the
cemetery. All of the 51 Second World War graves are scattered. There are also
2 non war burials here.
A screen wall in the First World War plot (Sect. 213) records the names of
casualties of both wars whose graves could not be individually marked. Also
recorded on the wall are the names of five servicemen whose remains were cremated
in Kensal Green Crematorium.
Two soldiers who served in the Yorkshire Regiment are buried in this cemetery.
We are very grateful to Wayne Bywater (<waynetyke123@aol.com>) for the photos of the headstone of the Yorkshire Regiment Officer buried in the cemetery.
Private Ernest Humber. 9704. Depot Yorkshire Regiment,
but had embarked with the 2nd Battalion for service overseas in October 1914.
Died at home 30 August 1915.
Born Wandsworth, Enlisted London, Resided Southgate (N).
(From the "Register of Soldiers' Effects" Ernest Humber died of
tuberculosis in the Brompton Hospital).
2nd Lieutenant Harold Leslie Lascelles. RFC, formerly
the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 11 March 1917.
From Robert Coulson's Biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"Harold Lascelles joined the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps on
January 14th 1915 and was commissioned into the Yorkshire Regiment on July
23rd 1915.
After transferring to the Royal Flying Corps, Lt Lascelles was with No 42
Reserve Squadron at West Byfleet in Surrey when he was killed in an accident
flying an RE8 on March 11th 1917."
Private
Humber's Name on the Screen Wall in Kensal Green (All Souls') Cemetery
Photo : Derek Walker
The Lascelles Family Grave in which Lieutenant Lascelles is buried (1)
Photo : Wayne Bywater (<waynetyke123@aol.com>).
The Lascelles Family Grave in which Lieutenant Lascelles is buried (2)
Photo : Wayne Bywater (<waynetyke123@aol.com>).
The
Lascelles Family Grave in which Lieutenant Lascelles mother, Henrietta, is
also buried.
Photo : Wayne Bywater (<waynetyke123@aol.com>).
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