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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Byker and Heaton) Cemetery |
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Byker and Heaton) Cemetery contains 158 scattered
First World War burials, mostly of local men who had died in Newcastle's military
hospitals, including the 1st Northern General, posted in Armstrong College.
In the early months of the Second World War, ground was set aside in the centre
of the cemetery for service war burials but this was comparatively little
used and there are only 25 graves here. The rest of the 113 Second World War
burials are scattered throughout the cemetery.
There are two graves of men of the Yorkshire Regiment in this cemetery, -
one of them of a 15-year old soldier of the 3rd Battalion.
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Private George Frederick
Sanderson, 3261. 2nd/5th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of John George Sanderson, of 38, Dodds St., Darlington.
Died at home 21 June 1915. Aged 15.
(!!) Enlisted Darlington. |
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Corporal Thomas
Lightfoot Twizell, 31188. 16th Battalion
Yorkshire Regiment, transferred to (Serjt 13210) Labour Corps.. Son of
Mary Ellen Turnbull, of 10, Norfolk Rd., Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Died
at home 13 November 1919. Aged 32. |
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Private G F Sanderson's grave (red flowers) in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Byker
and Heaton) Cemetery.
In the background is a plot holding 25 Second World War burials.
A general view of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Byker and Heaton) Cemetery.