Yorkshire Regiment War Graves, - Heilly Station Cemetery

There are now 2,890 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. Only 12 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 21 casualties whose graves in the cemetery could not be exactly located. The cemetery also contains 83 German graves. The burials in this cemetery were carried out under extreme pressure and many of the graves are either too close together to be marked individually, or they contain multiple burials. Some headstones carry as many as three sets of casualty details, and in these cases, regimental badges have had to be omitted. Instead, these badges, 117 in all, have been carved on a cloister wall on the north side of the cemetery.

Some photos of Heilly Station Cemetery are at the bottom of this page.

30 Men of the Yorkshire Regiment are buried in Heilly Station Cemetery. They are;-

No Photo available		Private John Ernest Appleton. 11545. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 11 July 1916. Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
Click on thumbnail image for a larger version of the photo		Major Victor Louis Sydney Beckett. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of the late Dr. Francis Mears Beckett and Harriet Elizabeth Beckett, of St. Audrey's, Fly, Cambs. Killed 14 July 1916. Aged 34. The inscription on his gravestone reads;- REQUIEM AETERNAM DONA EI DOMINE ET LUX PERPETUA LUCEAT EI ELY. CAMBS
No Photo available		Private Thomas Wallace Brown. 20402. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Robert and Ellen Brown. Native of Ferryhill, Co. Durham. Killed 18 July 1916. Aged 37. Born Ferryhill, Enlisted Shiny Row, Resided Ferryhill.
No Photo available		Private Benjamin William Brunson. 19537. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 13 July 1916. Born Washington, Enlisted Houghton-le-Spring, Resided Fencehouses.
No Photo available		Private Arthur Burn. 3489. 1st/5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of William and Mary Jane Burn, of Lockton, Pickering, Yorks. Killed 16 September 1916. Enlisted Scarborough, Resided Pickering.
Click on thumbnail image for a larger version of the photo		Private Martin Connor. 14286. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 3 July 1916. Born Castle Eden (West Hartlepool), Enlisted Deaf Hill, Resided Trimdon Colliery.
No Photo available		Private Walter Cook. 3/7364. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Isaac Walter and the late Violetta Cook, of Stockton-on-Tees; husband of Isabella Cook, of 43, Joseph St., Portrack Lane, Stockton-on-Tees. Killed 3 July 1916. Aged 26. Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Stockton-on-Tees.
No Photo available		Private John Robert Dale. 13059. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Christopher George Dale, of 57, West St., Normanby, Eston, Yorks. Killed 3 July 1916. Aged 30. Born Swainby (Northallerton), Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Normanby.
Click on thumbnail image for a larger version of the photo		Private Frank Durkin. 15746. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Edward and Mary A. Durkin, of 20, Free St., Otley Rd., Bradford, Yorks. Killed 11 July 1916. Aged 21. Born Bradford, Enlisted Frenshaw, Resided Bradford.
No Photo available		L/Corporal William Farnaby. 16439. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 3 July 1916. Born Darlington (Durham), Enlisted Darlington.
No Photo available		Private Richard Fenn. 33185. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Formerly 2039, Suffolk Regiment. Killed 21 September 1916. Born Mildenhall (Suffolk), Enlisted Mildenhall.
No Photo available		Private Albert Foulis. 11341. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 9 July 1916. Born Leeds, Enlisted Leeds.
No Photo available		Private Thomas Gardner. 15361. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 5 July 1916. Born Stockton, Enlisted Stockton.
No Photo available		Private Frederick Goforth. 3972. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Brother of Miss Sophia Goforth, of 6, Wind's Yard, Theldgate, Beverley, Yorks. Killed 16 September 1916. Aged 19. Enlisted Beverley (Yorks).
No Photo available		Private Sam Hepworth. 27492. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 12 July 1916. Born Brighouse (Yorks), Enlisted Brighouse.
Click on thumbnail image for a larger version of the photo		Lieutenant George Cedric Hodgkinson. Yorkshire Regiment. Attached to 8th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment. Son of Reginald Edward Hodgkinson, J.P. and Margaret Jane Hodgkinson, of Moorseats, Hathersage, Sheffield. Born at Rotherham. Educated at Clifton College, 1st Cricket XI in 1914. Gazetted 2nd Lt.1915. 8th Bn. York and Lancaster Regt. 1914, went to France. Killed 4 July 1916. Aged 20. The inscription on his gravestone reads;- HE GAVE ALL LET US TAKE HEED HE GAVE NOT IN VAIN
No Photo available		Private Tom Hovington. 24404. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John and Mary Hovington, of Cloughton, Scarborough. Killed 2 July 1916. Aged 20. Born Scarborough, Enlisted Scarborough, Resided Cloughton.
No Photo available		Private Thomas Hush. 14064. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of James and Annie Hush, of 39, Crowhall Lane, Felling-on-Tyne. Killed 15 July 1916. Aged 25. Born Felling (Gateshead), Enlisted Deaf Hill, Resided Felling.
No Photo available		Private George Kent. 13964. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 5 July 1916. Born Trimdon, Enlisted Wheatley Hill.
No Photo available		Private Robert Lawrence. 13834. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Alfred and Jane I. Lawrence, of 13, Carlow St., Middlesbrough. Born at South Shields. Died 2 July 1916. Aged 19. Born South Shields, Enlisted Middlesbrough.
No Photo available		Private Robert Thomas Lazenby. 12715. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 11 July 1916. Born South Bank (Yorks), Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided South Bank.
No Photo available		Private Charles Haddon Lyon. 13135. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of G. H. Lyon, of 16, South Lackenby, Eston, Yorks. Died 12 July 1916. Aged 24. Born Wilton (Redcar, Yorks), Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Eston.
No Photo available		Private Richard Nicholson. 4106. 1st / 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, 150th Brigade, 50th Division. Son of David and Annie Nicholson. Native of Bedale, Yorks. Died 12 September 1916. Age 23. Enlisted Bedale.
No Photo available		Private Harry Horace Pentith. 15428. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 2 July 1916. Born Hull, Enlisted Scarborough, Resided Hull.
No Photo available		Corporal Percy Scott. 2329. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 18 September 1916. Born Middleton Tyas (Yorks), Enlisted Northallerton, Resided Middleton Tyas.
No Photo available		Private William Thomas Shepherd. 3/7596. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 4 July 1916. Born North Ormesby, Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided North Ormesby.
No Photo available		Private William Short. 17219. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 17 July 1916. Born Low Fell (Durham), Enlisted Houghton-le-Spring, Resided Hetton-le-Hole.
No Photo available		Private Andrew Smart. 19832. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Formerly 12028 Northumberland Fusiliers. Son of Thomas and Jane Ann Smart, of Whitsun View, Wooler, Northumberland. Died 5 July 1916. Aged 25. Born Wooler (Northumberland), Enlisted Middleton, Resided Wooler (Northumberland).
No Photo available		Private John Ritchie Smith. 15972. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Edward and Isabella Smith, of 30, Market Place, Houghton-le-Spring, Co. Durham. Died 11 July 1916. Aged 21. Born Houghton-le-Spring, Enlisted Houghton-le-Spring.
No Photo available		Private Henry Taylor. 14625. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 1 August 1916. Born Stradbrokedis (Suffolk), Enlisted Thirsk, Resided Lowestoft.
No Photo available		Private George Willis. 3883. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John and Eleanor Willis; husband of Margaret Willis, of Low Jobs Hill, Crook, Co. Durham. Died 21 September 1916. Aged 25. Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Old Eston.

Below are some photos of the Heilly Station Cemetery.

Heilly Station Cemetery
(Photo : Edward Nicholl)

The Cloisters at the entrance to Heilly Station Cemetery,
containing the badges of 117 regiments whose soldeirs are interred in the cemetery.
(Photo : Edward Nicholl)

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