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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Terlincthun British Cemetery ( Wimille, Pas de Calais) |
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Terlincthun British Cemetery (1)
The Headstone in the Immediate Foreground Commemorates 49 British soldiers
and 2 German soldiers found in 1982.
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)
The first rest camps for Commonwealth forces were established near Terlincthun in August 1914 and during the whole of the First World War, Boulogne and Wimereux housed numerous hospitals and other medical establishments.
The cemetery at Terlincthun was begun in June 1918 when the space available for service burials in the civil cemeteries of Boulogne and Wimereux was exhausted. It was used chiefly for burials from the base hospitals, but Plot IV Row C contains the graves of 46 RAF personnel killed at Marquise in September 1918 in a bombing raid by German aircraft.
In July 1920, the cemetery contained more than 3,300 burials, but for many years Terlincthun remained an 'open' cemetery and graves continued to be brought into it from isolated sites and other burials grounds throughout France where maintenance could not be assured.
During the Second World War, there was heavy fighting in the area in 1940. Wimille was devastated when, from 22 - 25 May, the garrison at Boulogne fought a spirited delaying action covering the withdrawal to Dunkirk. There was some fighting in Wimille again in 1944. The cemetery suffered considerable damage both from the shelling in 1940 and during the German occupation.
The cemetery now contains 4,378 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and more than 200 war graves of other nationalities, most of them German. Second World War burials number 149.
14 soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment are buried in this cemetery. One headstone is for an unknown Company Serjeant Major of the Yorkshire Regiment.
We are extremely grateful to Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>) who has generously provided the photographs on this page.
Click on the thumbnail image of a headstone for a larger version of the photo which opens in a new window.
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Private John Richard
Bennett. 19658.
4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, transferred to (373556) 126th Coy. Labour Corps. Husband of Mary Bennett, of 39, Charles St., Middlesbrough. Died 19 June 1918. Aged 43. Born Middlesbrough (Yorks), Enlisted Middlesbrough (Yorks). "A BETTER HUSBAND NEVER LIVED
NOR ONE MORE TRUE AND KIND REST IN PEACE" |
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Private Henry Dobson.
21029. 13th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Died 21 November 1918. Richard Roberts, <richard.nsw@googlemail.com>, has researched the above soldier and provides the following information;- "Pte 21029 H Dobson 13th Battalion is Henry Dobson. Using pension records I found out that he married Florence Hannah Straker, and from Free BMD that this was in the Mar Qtr 1913 in the Middlesbrough RD. They had two children, Charles Henry and Mary Jane. In the 1911 Census, Florence born in 1894, is living with her parents in Ormesby. Although Henry Dobson is a relatively common name, only one turns up in the 1911 Census born and bred in Middlesbrough of an age likely to be considered for service in WW1 and he, like Florence, was born in 1894, the son of William a widower. I am sure in my own mind that this Henry Dobson is the soldier who served with the Yorkshire Regiment." |
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Private George Stuart Elliott. 48427.
5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly TR/5/71720 87th T R Battn. Son of William and Kate Elliott, of Sunderland. Died 15 December 1918. Aged 19. Born Wallsend, Enlisted Sunderland. |
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Private Frederick James Henry Endean,
34434. Yorkshire Regiment. Enlisted Kingston-on-Thames, Resided South Norwood. Died 11 June 1918. Aged 20. "IN MEMORY OF OUR DEAR SON
WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN" Private Endean attested for the Yorkshire Regiment on 22 May 1916. He was Enlisted into the 28th Training Reserve Battalion on 1 March 1917. On 15 August 1917 he was transferred to the 3rd Norfolk Regiment (no 37041), and on 26 September 1917 transferred again to the 7th Yorkshire Regiment (33734). On 11 January 1918 he was finally transferred to the Labour Corps (405574). His link with the Yorkshire Regiment is somewhat tenuous, and the Service Number on his headstone does not match the numbers in his Service Record. |
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Private John William Gambles. 73365.
55th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), formerly 11800 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mr. J. W. and Elizabeth Gambles, of 2, Smiths Bank, North Shields; husband of Mary Ann Gambles, of 15, John St., West Hartlepool. Killed 8 September 1918. Aged 26. Born Shiremoor (Northumberland), Enlisted North Shields. "GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN"
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2nd Lieutenant Walter Hall. 5th Battalion (attached to 2nd Battalion) Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Robert Sidney and Minnie Hall, of Middlesbrough. Died 15 November 1918. Aged 25. "DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI" |
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Private George Reginald
Job Hobbs, 35640. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 4051 Berks Regt. Killed 8 March 1917. Born Staple Hill (Glos), Enlisted Bristol. |
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Private Samuel Hodgkinson, 29547.
13th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 29750 Notts & Derby Regt. Son of Mrs. M A. Hodgkinson, of 16, Lower St., Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent. Killed 2 July 1918. Born Burslem (Staffs), Enlisted Burslem. |
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Private William Irving. 17459. 10th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Jane Anne Irving, of 46, Jubilee Terrace, Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. Killed 13 June 1918. Aged 42. Born Southwick, Enlisted Cramlington, Resided Seaton Delaval. |
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Private William Bell Jessop. 241226. 5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 5 October 1918. Enlisted Beverly (Yorks). |
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Private Herbert Johnson. 20403. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, Labour Corps transf. to (377045) 855th Area Employment Coy. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson; husband of Mrs. Holroyd, of Middlesbrough. Died 2 March 1919. Aged 25. "REST IN PEACE"
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Private Patrick Loughran. 16503. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 9 September 1918. Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough. (Shown in SDGW as "Patrick Lockran") |
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2nd Lieutenant Cecil
Arthur Marlowe. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, attached 1st/7th Battalion West Yorks Regt. Husband of Mary Agnes Marlowe, of Church St., Boston Spa, Yorkshire. Killed 18 October 1918. Aged 34. The photo of this headstone was taken in November 2014. As can be seen, the headstone was quite weathered at the time. Chris Weekes happened to visit this cemetery in April 2018, and noticed that the headstone had been replaced with a new one. Chris observed;- "There have been some replacement stones because of the salt water air wearing away the original stones. One of these very new one was that for Lt Marlowe. These new stones are of Italian marble, but apparently the CWGC is going back to using Portland stone as they have found another seam." |
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Private Frank Moment,
29972. 10th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 22672 Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Frank and Hannah Moment, of Warren House, Allerston, Pickering. Killed on 11 November 1918. Aged 25. Born Bridlington, Enlisted Scarborough, Resided Pickering. "AFFECTIONATELY REMEMBERED
BY HIS FATHER, MOTHER BROTHER & SISTER. |
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Private James Willie
Moorhouse. 38132. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 2 October 1918. Born Eccleshall (Bradford), Enlisted Bradford. |
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Lance Corporal Joseph Renton Pattison.
200704. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Florence E. Pattison, of 11, Caxton St., Middlesbrough. Killed 1 November 1918. Aged 27. Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough. "BELOVED BY ALL"
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An unknown Company Serjeant
Major of the Yorkshire Regiment. |
Terlincthun British Cemetery (2)
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Terlincthun British Cemetery (3)
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Terlincthun British Cemetery (4)
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The Commemoration of 49 British and 2 German Soldiers Found in 1982 and Buried
in Terlincthun British Cemetery
Photo : Chris Weekes (<weebex12@hotmail.com>)