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Regiment War Graves, - Grootebeek British Cemetery (Belgium, West-Vlaanderen) |
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Grootebeek British Cemetery (1)
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The village of Reninghelst was in Allied hands from the autumn of 1914 to the end of the First World War. From March 1915, Commonwealth burials were made in the Churchyard, the Churchyard Extension and the New Military Cemetery, but in April 1918, during the Battles of the Lys, a new cemetery was made by field ambulances and fighting units near the hamlet of Ouderdom, on the Poperinghe-Wytschaete road. It was originally called OUDERDOM MILITARY CEMETERY, but later renamed Grootebeek British Cemetery, from the stream (Grootebeek, or Groote Kemmelbeek) which runs beside it.
The cemetery was used at intervals until the end of September 1918 and it absorbed a small Indian cemetery made on the spot in April 1915. The cemetery contains 109 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. One grave destroyed by shell fire is now represented by a special memorial, and another special memorial records the name of Pte J. Lynn, VC, who was buried in Vlamertinghe Churchyard but whose grave was similarly destroyed. The two Second World War burials date from May 1940 and the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary Force ahead of the German advance.
Amongst the graves in Grootebeek British Cemetery is 1 for a soldier who
served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
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Private John Kaye. 33399. 1st/4th Battalion the York and Lancaster Regiment, formerly 45639 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of William H. and Emma Kaye, of 12, Waltham St., Doncaster Rd., Barnsley. Killed 30 April 1918. Aged 18. Born Crofton (Wakefield), Enlisted Barnsley.
"KILLED IN ACTION
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN" Photo by soilsister of the Find a Grave website |
Grootebeek
British Cemetery (2)
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