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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No 1, Auchonvillers (France, Somme) |
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Hawthorn
Ridge Cemetery No 1, Auchonvillers - 1
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No.1 was made by the V Corps, who cleared the Ancre battlefields in the spring of 1917, as V Corps Cemetery No.9. There are now over 150, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, nearly half are unidentified. Almost all fell on the 1st July or the 13th November 1916; a few in June and July 1918. The cemetery covers an area of 432 square metres is enclosed by a stone rubble wall.
83 burials from the First World War are in this cemetery.
Amongst the graves in this cemetery is that of 1 soldier 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 headstone on this page.
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Private William Alderson Moses.
220168.
7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 204893 the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 8 June 1918. Born Bishop Auckland, Enlisted Bishop Auckland, Resided Morley (Co. Durham). |
Hawthorn
Ridge Cemetery No 1, Auchonvillers - 2
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)
Hawthorn
Ridge Cemetery No 1, Auchonvillers - 3
Photo : Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>)