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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, West Vlaanderen (Belgium) |
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Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, West Vlaanderen (Belgium) - 1
Photo : Christopher Weekes <weebex12@hotmail.com>
The cemetery was begun in April 1915 at the North-end of a small plantation of larches. It was used by troops holding this sector, particularly the 46th (North Midland) Division and the 1st Dorsets, until April 1918. It was enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields of Ypres and from the following smaller cemeteries:-
AMERICA CROSS ROADS GERMAN CEMETERY, WERVICQ, BRUGES GENERAL CEMETERY, ST. MICHEL, CORTEMARCK GERMAN CEMETERY, No.1, EERNEGHEM GERMAN CEMETERY, GHISTELLES CHURCHYARD, GROENENBERG GERMAN CEMETERY, ZANTVOORDE, HANDZAEME GERMAN CEMETERY, ICHTEGHEM GERMAN CEMETERY, LEFFINGHE GERMAN CEMETERY, MARCKHOVE GERMAN CEMETERY, CORTEMARCK, TENBRIELEN COMMUNAL CEMETERY GERMAN EXTENSION, THOUROUT GERMAN CEMETERY No.2, VLADSLOO GERMAN CEMETERY, WARNETON SUD-ET-BAS GERMAN CEMETERY, WERVICQ COMMUNAL CEMETERY and its EXTENSIONS, WIJNENDAELE GERMAN CEMETERY, THOUROUT, and ZANTVOORDE GERMAN CEMETERY.
The cemetery contains 856 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 321 of the burials are unidentified and there are special memorials to 82 casualties known or believed to be buried in the cemetery. Other special memorials record the names of five casualties buried in German cemeteries whose graves could not be found on concentration.
Amongst the graves are 12 of soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment. 11 of these soldiers have special memorials, being believed to be buried in the cemetery.
Photos of the cemetery and the gravestones are by Christopher
Weekes <weebex12@hotmail.com>.
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Private Arthur Boyes. 240727.
8th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Alfred and Phoebe Ann Boyes, of 17, Wilbert Grove. Beverley, Yorks. Killed 20 July 1917. Aged 20. Enlisted Beverley (Yorks). "SADLY MISSED"
"KNOWN TO BE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY" |
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2nd Lieutenant Eric William Brodrick.
5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of the late Rev. F. E. and Mrs. Brodrick, of Farnley Rectory, near Leeds; husband of Margaret Lucie Brodrick, of East Keswick, Leeds. Died 23 July 1916. Aged 35. "HE SPRANG TO DUTY'S CALL HE STOOD THE TEST" Robert Coulson wrote the following in his Biographies of Yorkshire Regiment Officers Killed in the First World War;- "Eric Brodrick was born at Farnley near Leeds on April 24th 1881 and was educated at St Georges School, Roundhay and Bradford Grammar. He went to the Phillipines in 1902 where he worked as a Province Agent and was home on leave when war broke out. He joined the Royal Fusiliers Public Schools Battalion and then transferred to the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps. He was commissioned in March of 1915 and married Miss Lucie Moon at East Keswick near Leeds on April 17th 1915. Eric Brodrick joined the 5th Battalion of the Yorkshires later in 1915. The Spring of 1916 was spent by the battalion at various locations around the Ypres Salient including actions at the Bluff and Hill 60. In May they were at Eecke north west of Bailleul where 2nd Lt Brodrick and the battalion were inspected by General Sir Hubert Plumer, CO of the 2nd Army. They then moved back into the salient taking part in a large attack against an enemy mine crater on July 10th. It was just after this that Eric Brodrick was wounded and captured during a night patrol near Kemmel. He died from his wounds in enemy hands around 22/23rd of July 1916 at the age of 35. Eric Brodrick was buried by the enemy in one of their battlefield cemeteries, but today his grave lies in Larch Wood Cemetery at Zillebeke to the south east of Ypres, his body being one of many that were brought in during clearances after the war. Eric William Brodrick was the son of the late Reverend F E Brodrick and his wife Jane of Farnley Rectory near Leeds and the husband of Margaret Lucie Brodrick of East Keswick, Leeds." |
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Private Patrick Dowd. 235348.
9th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 31796 K O Y L I. Killed 17 July 1917. Born Crook (Durham), Enlisted Washington, Resided Washington Station. "KNOWN TO BE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY"
"THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT" |
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Private James Godfrey. 9620.
8th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 15 July 1917. Born Tow Moor (Yorks), Enlisted Leeds. "KNOWN TO BE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY"
"THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT" |
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Private Bertie Gowers. 41293.
9th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 26292 Essex Regt. Son of Henry Joseph and Sarah Gowers; husband of Phyllis Mary Gowers, of 27, Angel St., Hadleigh, Suffolk. Killed 17 July 1917. Aged 26. Born Writtle (Essex), Enlisted Chelmsford. "THINKING THAT REMEMBRANCE
THOUGH UNSPOKEN MAY REACH HIM WHERE HE SLEEPS" "KNOWN TO BE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY" |
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Private Thomas Harrison, 17451.
9th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, attached 69th T M Battery. Killed 15 July 1917. Born Percy Main (Wallsend), Enlisted Wallsend, Resided Percy Main. "KNOWN TO BE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY"
"THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT" |
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Private Neville Hornsby, 40563.
9th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 26385 Essex Regt. Killed 17 July 1917. Born Rochford (Essex), Enlisted Southend. "KNOWN TO BE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY"
"THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT" |
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Private Joseph Humphrey, 9581.
8th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, attached 69th T H Battery. Killed 16 July 1917. Born Southwick (Durham), Enlisted Southwick, Resided Northampton. "KNOWN TO BE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY"
"THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT" |
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Private John Arthur Hutley, 18456.
8th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 19521 K O Y L I. Husband of Mrs. M. A.C. Hutley, of 48, Egerton St., Sheffield. Killed 15 July 1917. Aged 35. Born Sheffield, Enlisted Sheffield. "R.I.P."
"KNOWN TO BE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY" |
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Private Alfred George Thomas Leaversuch.
202297.
8th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 4470 Northants Regt. Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Leaversuch, of 30, Queen St., Weedon, Northants. Killed 15 July 1917. Aged 17. Enlisted Northampton, Resided Weedon (Northampton). "KNOWN TO BE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY"
"THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT" |
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Corporal George Gregory Pearson. 38717.
9th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Lily Pearson, of 16, Elm Rd., Shildon, Co. Durham. Killed 17 July 1917. Aged 24. Born Shildon (Durham), Enlisted Sunderland, Resided New Shildon. (Shown in SDGW as "John Gregory Pearson"; in GH Gazette database as "G G Pearson") "AT REST"
"KNOWN TO BE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY" |
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Private Edgar Robinson. 33671.
8th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Joseph and Margaret Robinson, of Bridge House, Austwick, Lancaster. Killed 17 July 1917. Aged 19. Born Austwick (Lancaster), Enlisted Settle, Resided Austwick. "KNOWN TO BE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY"
"THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT" |
The
Headstones for Privates Robinson, Hornsby, Dowd, and Gowers, and Cpl Pearson
in Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery
Photo : Christopher Weekes <weebex12@hotmail.com>
Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, West Vlaanderen (Belgium) - 2
Photo : Christopher Weekes <weebex12@hotmail.com>
Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, West Vlaanderen (Belgium) - 3
Photo : Christopher Weekes <weebex12@hotmail.com>