Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Newmarket Cemetery |
Newmarket Cemetery is located on the A1304 Newmarket-Cambridge road, on the South West of Newmarket itself.
The cemetery contains 14 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 44 of the 1939-1945 war. There are also 20 Polish Foreign Nationals and 2 non world war burials.
Amongst the First World War burials is one soldier who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
Photo by darealjolo of the Find
A Grave website
Private Charles E Friedlander. 33143. 5th Battalion
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment), formerly 48046 the Yorkshire
Regiment.
Born Bethnal Green. Died 9 October 1920. Aged 25.
(The only other facts known about Charles Friedlander is that in 1911 he was
a Groom at a Racing Establishment, Abingdon Place, in Newmarket. He is shown
on the Newmarket War Memorial as "Charles E", but there is no indication
as to what the "E" stands for.)
Private
Friedlander's headstone in Newmarket Cemetery
Photo by darealjolo of the Find
A Grave website
Newmarket
Cemetery
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Newmarket
Cemetery Chapel
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