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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Rotherham (Moorgate) Cemetery |
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Rotherham (Moorgate) Cemetery is on the South-East side of the town. The cemetery contains 52 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 32 from the Second, all scattered throughout the cemetery. The Cross of Sacrifice is situated at the main entrance.
One soldier who served with the Yorkshire Regiment is buried in this cemetery.
The Pope Family Headstone in Rotherham (Moorgate) Cemetery
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
"In Memory of
MARIA / WIFE OF W.G. POPE LATE (R.N.)
DIED MAY 10TH 1898 / AGED 70 YEARS
ALSO
OF THE ABOVE W.G. POPE / WHO DIED MAY 21ST 1900 / AGED 79 YEARS
RE-UNITED
ALSO R. HAGUE POPE
GRANDSON OF THE ABOVE
DIED AT RUGELEY CAMP MARCH 29TH 1917
AGED 18 1/2 YEARS
ALSO MARIA S. A. POPE / DAUGHTER OF THE FIRST NAMED
WHO DIED APRIL 15TH 1919"
Private Reginald Hague Pope. 5/38348. 15th Battalion the Yorkshire
Regiment, attached to 10th T R Battn. Died at home 29 March 1917. Aged
18.
Born Elsecar (Yorks), Enlisted Keighley (Yorks).
There had been an outbreak of Cerebro Spinal fever at Rugeley Camp at the
time that Private Pope died. At least one other soldier of the Yorkshire
Regiment, - Private Frederick Brassington, died in this outbreak. Private
Brassington was also aged 18 and was in the same battalion as Private Pope.
He is buried in RUGELEY CEMETERY.
(From the end of February 1917 to the end of March 1917 nine soldiers were
buried in Rugeley Cemetery, - seven of these were in the Training Reserve.)
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View of Rotherham (Moorgate) Cemetery Showing the Pope Family Headstone
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
The Cross of Sacrifice at the Entrance to Rotherham (Moorgate) Cemetery
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)