Yorkshire Regiment War Graves
Yorkshire Regiment War Graves, -
Lonsdale Cemetery,
Authuille
Yorkshire Regiment War Graves

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Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille (1)Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille (1)
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)


On 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the 32nd Division, which included the 1st Dorsets and the 11th (Lonsdale) Battalion of the Border Regt attacked the German line at this point and stormed the Leipzig Salient, but were compelled to retire later in the day. In the spring of 1917, after the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line, V Corps cleared these battlefields and made a number of new cemeteries, including Lonsdale No.1 and No.2.

Lonsdale Cemetery No.1 (the present Lonsdale Cemetery) contained originally 96 graves (now in Plot I), the great majority of which were those of officers and men of the 1st Dorsets and the 11th Borders. It was enlarged after the Armistice when graves, almost all of 1916, were brought in from the surrounding battlefields and from other small burial grounds.

Lonsdale Cemetery now contains 1,542 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 816 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 22 casualties known or believed to be buried among them.

15 of the burials in Lonsdale Cemetery are for soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.

We are very grateful to Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) for having taken the photos of the cemetery and 13 of the Yorkshire Regiment headstones. The other two headstones were photographed by Steve Erskine (<erskine615@gmail.com>).

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Private Thomas Coggan. 15891.
 
Private Thomas Coggan. 15891.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 14 September 1916.
Born Wath-on-Dearne (Rotherham), Enlisted Wath-on-Dearne.

Photo by Stephen Erskine (<erskine615@gmail.com>)

Serjeant Robert Brailsford Craven. 18554.
 
Serjeant Robert Brailsford Craven. 18554.
6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Craven, of Scarborough; husband of Margaret Ellen Craven, of 59, Falsgrave Rd., Scarborough. Killed 15 September 1916. Aged 30.
Born Scarborough, Enlisted Scarborough.

"KNOWN TO BE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY"

"SIMPLY TO THY CROSS I CLING
MAGGY
THY WILL BE DONE O LORD
F. & M."

Private Frederick Ebdy. 18831.
 
Private Frederick Ebdy. 18831.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Mary A. Marley (formerly Ebdy), of 19, Margaret St., New Brancepeth, Co. Durham. Killed 15 September 1916. Aged 31.
Born Durham, Enlisted Durham.

"THY WILL BE DONE
EVER REMEMBERED BY
HIS LOVING WIFE & CHILDREN
ALSO BROTHER & SISTERS"

Private David Elliott, 17255.
 
Private David Elliott, 17255.
6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mary Jane Elliott, of 1, High Pottery Yard, Newbottle, Co. Durham, and the late Robert Elliott. Killed 15 September 1916. Aged 19.
Born Sacriston (Durham), Enlisted Houghton-le-Spring, Resided Newbottle (Fencehouses).


Private William Elliott. 18482.
 
Private William Elliott. 18482.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 15 September 1916.
Born Hetton-le-Hole (Durham), Enlisted Houghton-le-Spring , Resided Hetton-le-Hole.


Private Thomas Matthew Briggs Gardiner. 17164.
 
Private Thomas Matthew Briggs Gardiner. 17164.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Mary Ann Briggs. Killed 14 September 1916.
Born Monkwearmouth (Sunderland).

"KNOWN TO BE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY"

"THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT"

Private Thomas Hillary, 19546.
 
Private Thomas Hillary, 19546.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Brother of Mr W. Coats of Browntion Low Road, Richmond Yorks. Killed 14 September 1916. Aged 23.
Born Arkengarthdale, Enlisted Durham, Resided Esh Winning.

Private W Harrison Hornby, 6538.
 
Private W Harrison Hornby, 6538.
1st/4th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, formerly 1494 the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 7 September 1916.
Born Kirbymoorside, Enlisted Kirbymoorside.
Buried LONSDALE CEMETERY, Authuille.

2nd Lieutenant Charles Ernest Hurst.
 
2nd Lieutenant Charles Ernest Hurst.
11th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, attached to 6th Battalion. Son of Charles Alfred and Alice Gertrude Hurst, of 30, Coltman St., Hull. Killed 14 September 1916. Aged 21.

"I KNOW
THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH"

Private Andrew McGregor. 15666.
 
Private Andrew McGregor. 15666.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Alexander McGregor, of Brandon Colliery, Durham; husband of Jane Ann McGregor, of Durham Rd., Leadgate, Co. Durham. Killed 15 September 1915. Aged 32.
Born Brandon, Enlisted Newcastle, Resided West Stanley.

Private Ralph Richardson. 18330.
 
Private Ralph Richardson. 18330.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 15 September 1916.
Born Hetton-le-Hole, Enlisted Houghton-le-Spring, Resided Hetton-le-Hole.

Private John Roberts. 20360.
 
Private John Roberts. 20360.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 14 September 1916.
Born Scarborough, Enlisted Malton, Resided Pickering.

Photo by Stephen Erskine (<erskine615@gmail.com>)

Lance Corporal Allan Horatio Rooks, 10705.
 
Lance Corporal Allan Horatio Rooks, 10705.
6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of William and Mary Ann Rooks, of 8, Thomas St, New Skelton-in-Cleveland, N Yorks. Killed on 14 September 1916. Aged 23.
Born Skelton, Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Skelton-in-Cleveland.

"BELIEVED TO BE BURIED IN THIS CEMETERY"

"THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT"

Private John Smith. 18732.
 
Private John Smith. 18732.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 13 September 1916.
Born Sunderland, Enlisted Southwick-on-Wear.

"BURIED ELSEWHERE IN THIS CEMETERY"

"THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT"

Private Thomas Walton. 17799.
 
Private Thomas Walton. 17799.
6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 14 September 1916.
Born Appleby (Westmoreland), Enlisted Leyburn, Resided Hawes (Yorks).

An Unknown Yorkshire Regiment Soldier buried in this cemetery.
 
An Unknown Yorkshire Regiment Soldier buried in this cemetery.

Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille (2)Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille (2)
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)

Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille (3)Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille (3)
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)

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