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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Cement House Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen (Belgium) |
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Cement House Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen (Belgium) - 1
Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>
Langemark has given its name to the Battles of 21-24 October 1914 and 16-18 August 1917. The village was in German hands from April 1915 to August 1917 and from April to September 1918. Commonwealth, French and Belgian forces have in turn defended and attacked it.
"Cement House" was the military name given to a fortified farm building on the Langemark-Boesinghe (now Boezinge) road. The original Cement House Cemetery (now Plot I, an irregular group of 231 graves) was begun here at the end of August 1917 and used by the 4th and 17th Division burial officers, by field ambulances and by units in the line until April 1918.
In the years immediately following the Armistice, most of Plots II - XV were added when Commonwealth graves were brought in from the battlefields and small burial grounds around Langemark and Poelkapelle, mostly dating from the Autumn of 1917.
Plots XVI, XVII and XVIII originally contained some 500 French graves, but these were removed in 1922. The space vacated has been filled in over the intervening years by graves brought in from communal cemeteries and churchyards in the area, when their maintenance in these locations could no longer be assured. The cemetery is still used for the burial of remains that continue to be discovered in the vicinity, and a number of plots have been extended to accommodate these graves.
There are now 3,592 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery, 2,425 of the burials are unidentified.
Of the 22 Second World War burials in the cemetery, five are unidentified.
Amongst the graves are 8 of soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
Photos of the cemetery and the gravestones are by Christopher
Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>.
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Private Charles Augustus Cocks.
33279. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Augustus and Jane Cocks, of Upper Helmsley, York. Killed 9 October 1917. Aged 20. Born Rousham (Oxford), Enlisted Gate Helmsley, Resided Upper Helmsley (Yorks). |
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Private Josephs Craigs. 33777.
7th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly M/272394 Army Service Corps. Killed 15 November 1917. Born Craghead (Durham), Enlisted Stanley, Resided Craghead. |
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Private Harold Crimlisk. 41738.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment,formerly 174516 R F A. Son of Thomas and Margaret Crimlisk, of 21, Victoria Avenue, Filey, Yorks. Killed 27 September 1917. Aged 20. Born Filey, Enlisted Beverley (Yorks), Resided Filey. (Name spelt "Crimlish" in SDGW and GH Gazette database) "NOT GONE FROM MEMORY
OR FROM LOVE BUT TO THE ETERNAL HOME ABOVE" |
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Private Ralph Davison. 19160.
7th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 15 November 1917. Born Sunderland, Enlisted Durham, Resided Craghead (Nr Chester-le-Street). |
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2nd Lieutenant Aylmer Eade.
3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, attached to 2nd Battalion. Son of the Rev. Charles John Aylmer Eade and Constance Eade, of Aycliffe Vicarage, Darlington. Killed 9 October 1917. Aged 25.
"PRO PATRIA DULCE PERICULUM" |
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Private George Lowes. 58968.
Machine Gun Corps, formerly 30511 Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 4 November 1917. Aged 24. Born South Bank (Yorks), Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided South Bank. Photo : International Wargraves Photography Project of the Find a Grave website |
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Private Walter O'Connell. 45765.
6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 9 October 1917. Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Stokesley, Resided Middlesbrough. |
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Private John Robinson. 26562.
6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 27 September 1917. Born Richmond (Yorks), Enlisted Richmond. |
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House Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen (Belgium) - 2
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House Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen (Belgium) - 3
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