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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, Haucourt (France) |
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Vis-En-Artois and Haucourt were taken by the Canadian Corps on 27 August 1918. The cemetery was begun immediately afterwards and was used by fighting units and field ambulances until the middle of October. It consisted originally of 430 graves (in Plots I and II) of which 297 were Canadian and 55 belonged to the 2nd Duke of Wellington's Regiment. It was increased after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields of April-June 1917, August and September 1918, and from the smaller cemeteries in the neighbourhood.
The cemetery now contains 2,369 burials and commemorations of
the First World War. 1,458 of the burials are unidentified but there are special
memorials to eight casualties known or believed to be buried among them.
Amongst the graves are 6 for soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment.
Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, Haucourt, Pas de Calais (France)
(Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>)
Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, Haucourt, Pas de Calais (France)
(Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>)
The gravestone photos are by Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>
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Private John Anderson. 39073.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 31 March 1917. Born Trimdon (Durham), Enlisted Ferryhill, Resided Thornley. |
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Private Michael Lydon. 48517.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 1 September 1918. Born Batley (Yorks), Enlisted Batley. |
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Company Serjeant Major Jack Robinson,
MM . 3/9627. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Betty
Robinson, of 32, Micklegate, York. Killed 31 August 1918. Aged 43. Born Leeds, Enlisted Leeds, Resided York. (Shown in SDGW as "Private John Robinson") |
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Private Matthew Robson. 18799.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 1 September 1918. Born Carlisle, Enlisted Shiney Row, Resided Old Penshaw (Fencehouses). |
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Private George Thomas Wilkinson.
19945. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 4 September 1918. Born Crook, Enlisted Stockton-on-Tees, Resided Eaglescliffe. |
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Private John William Yeo, 14485.
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Ann Yeo,
of 9, Thomas St., Monkwearmouth, Sunderland; husband of Margaret Hebron
(formerly Yeo), of 11, Victoria Terrace, Old Penshaw, Philadelphia,
Co. Durham. Killed 31 August 1918. Aged 28. Born Houghton-le-Spring, Enlisted Shiney Row, Resided Fencehouses. |
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The Dedication to Those with No Known Graves, - Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery,
Haucourt, Pas de Calais (France)
(Photo : Christopher Weekes, <weebex12@hotmail.com>)