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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Nottingham Church Cemetery |
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Nottingham Church Cemetery contains 79 scattered burials of the First World War and 20 from the Second World War. This cemetery also known as "Rock Cemetery" and was created on sandstone rocks and old sandpits in 1856 utilising natural caves, cliffs, outcrops and tunnels.
Amongst the First World War burials is one for a soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment, - Arthur Carver Riley, who is interred in the Robinson Family grave. Details of Private Riley are shown under the photo, together with additional photos of the cemetery. (Arthur Riley's widow, also interred in this grave, remained a widow for 54 years after his death).
We are very grateful to Richard Roberts (<richard@nosnailshere.co.uk>) for providing photographs and information of Nottingham Church Cemetery.
The Family Grave of the Robinsons in Nottingham Church Cemetery, in which
Private Arthur Carver Riley is interred
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
Private Arthur Carver Riley. 43269. 17th Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment, transf. to (492955) Labour Corps. Son of Arthur and Emma Riley;
husband of Daisy Riley, of 52, Lichfield Rd., Sneinton, Nottingham. Born
at Sneinton. Died at home 29 October 1918. Aged 32.
Born Nottingham, Enlisted Leamington (Warwicks), Resided Nottingham.
The Family Grave of the Robinsons in Nottingham Church Cemetery, in which
Private Arthur Carver Riley is interred
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
A general view of Nottingham Church Cemetery showing some of the natural
sandstone formations.
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
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