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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Easington, (St. Mary's) Church Burial Ground |
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The Easington Church Burial Ground is near the Church; it adjoins a more recent cemetery. It contains 8 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-18 war and also three unknown French sailors. An image from Google Earth is shown at the bottom of this page, which illustrates its position relative to the church.
There are two soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment buried in this
cemetery.
We are extremely grateful to Norman Cummings (<norman_cummings@hotmail.co.uk>)
for providing the photograph of the headstones and of the cemetery.
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Private Robert Kell. 16411. 2nd
Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of William and Mary Kell, of Framwellgate
Moor, Co. Durham. Died at home 19 March 1919. Aged 34. Enlisted Richmond,
Resided Framwellgate (Durham). Private Kell's Pension Record survives in the National Archives. He enlisted with the 2nd Battalion in November 1914, and was discharged in March 1919 as being medically unfit. His disabilities included his left leg being amputated, together with gunshot wounds in the neck and right arm. Robert Kell was a miner, and was unmarried. |
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Private John James Pattison. 14763.
8th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Ralph and Victoria E. Pattison,
of 13, Barwick St., Easington Colliery. Died at home 14 February 1917.
Aged 21. Born Sunderland, Enlisted Sunderland, Resided Easington Colliery. "TIME CHANGES MANY THINGS BUT LOVING MEMORY ALWAYS CLINGS." |
Easington (St. Mary's) Church Burial Ground
(Norman Cummings (<norman_cummings@hotmail.co.uk>))
An image from Google
Earth showing the location of Easington (St. Mary's) Church Burial Ground