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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Bapaume Post Military Cemetery, Albert (France, Somme) |
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Bapaume
Post Military Cemetery, Albert - 1
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
Bucquoy was taken by the 7th Division in March, 1917. It was partly lost in April 1918, after a prolonged and gallant defence by the 62nd (West Riding), 37th and 42nd (East Lancashire) Divisions; and it was cleared on the following 21st August. The cemetery was begun in March 1917, when 23 men of the 2nd Queen's were buried in what is now Plot II, Row A. Thirteen graves of April-August 1918 were added (Plot II, Row B) in September 1918 by the 5th Division Burial Officer. The remainder of the cemetery was made after the Armistice, by the concentration of British and French graves and one American from the battlefields of the Ancre and from small cemeteries in the neighbourhood.
There are now over 700, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 200 are unidentified and special memorials record the names of six soldiers from the United Kingdom, buried in Miraumont German Cemetery, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. The cemetery covers an area of 2,619 square metres.
Amongst the graves in this cemetery are those of 2 soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
We are extremely grateful to Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) who has generously provided the photographs of the cemetery and the headstones on this page.
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Lieutenant Francis Harold Harrison. 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, attached 5th Bn. Special Bde. Royal Engineers. Son of Frank and Ruth Harrison, of 7, Guilford Place, London, W.C.1. Killed 2 September 1916. Aged 30. Photo by Len of the Find a Grave website. |
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Private John Knott. 8048. Machine Gun Corps, formerly 24169 Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 5 July 1916. Born Cleveland (Yorks), Enlisted Malton (Yorks). |
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Private Harry Maxim, 3163. 1st Company Australian Machine Gun Corps. Killed 19 July 1917. Note from Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>);- "There are just 10 soldiers with the Maxim surname who died in WW1 and this soldier is the only one who fought with machine guns!" |
Bapaume
Post Military Cemetery, Albert - 2
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)