Remembrance - The Yorkshire Regiment, First World War War Graves & Cemeteries, - Overseas

Achiet-Le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension		Adanac Military Cemetery, Miraumont		Assevillers New British Cemetery
contains 12 graves of men of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains 37 graves of men of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains 6 graves of men of the Yorkshire Regiment

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Bazentin-le-Petit Military Cemetery		Bazentin-le-Petit Communal Cemetery Extension		Becourt Military Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt		Bellicourt British Cemetery
contains 1 grave of a soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains 1 grave of a soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains 16 graves of men of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains 1 grave of a soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment

Berks Cemetery Extension		Bernafay Wood British Cemetery, Montauban		Brandhoek New Military Cemetery, Belgium		Buquoy Road Cemetery
contains the graves of Ptes Bloomer and Oyston, Sgt Spencer, and Lieut Oakley		contains the graves of 4 identified soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment		includes the graves of T Carrick & W Dickinson (and Noel Chavasse, VC*)		contains 25 graves of men of the Yorkshire Regiment

Buttes Cemetery
contains 16 graves of men of the Yorkshire Regiment

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Carnoy Military Cemetery		Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval (France)		Cherisy Road East Cemetery		Cojeul British Cemetery, St. Martin-sur-Cojeul (France)
contains 5 graves of men of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains 11 graves of men of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains 2 graves of men of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains 18 graves of men of the Yorkshire Regiment

Contalmaison Chateau Cemetery		Cross Roads Cemetery, Fontaine-au-Bois (France)
contains the graves of 3 soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment, including Pte William Short, VC		contains the graves of at least eight men of the Yorkshire Regiment.

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Dantzig Alley British Cemetery		Dartmoor Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt (France)		Dernancourt Cemetery Extension, France		Dury Crucifix Cemetery, Pas de Calais (France)
contains the graves of 50 soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment, one of whom was only 16 years old.		contains the graves of 17 soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment, and that of a 68-year old soldier.		contains the graves of 36 men of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains the graves of 4 men of the Yorkshire Regiment

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Essex Farm Cemetery		Etaples Cemetery, France		Etretat Cemetery Extension, France
contains the graves of 2 soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment, and that of a 15-year old soldier.		Amongst the over 10,000 WW1 burials in this cemetery are the graves of 90 men of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains the graves of 4 men of the Yorkshire Regiment

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Faubourg d'Amiens, Cemetery, Arras		Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery, Wancourt (France)		Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz		Fricourt British Cemetery, France
includes the graves of 9 soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment.		includes the grave of 1 soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment.		includes the graves of 17 soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment.		in which 92 men of the 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, who fell on 1 July 1916, are buried

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Gordon Dump Cemetery, Ovillers La Boiselle (France)		Guemappe British Cemetery, Wancourt (France)		Guillemont Road Cemetery, Guillemont
contains the graves of 20 soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment, including 2nd Lt D S Bell, VC		contains the graves of 2 men of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains the graves of 2 men of the Yorkshire Regiment

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H.A.C. Cemetery, Ecoust-St. Main (France)		Heilly Station Cemetery		Henin Crucifix Cemetery		Heninel Communal Cemetery Extension (France)
includes the grave of 1 soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment.		29 men of the Yorkshire Regiment are buried here, alongside over 2,800 other burials.		contains the graves of 13 men of the Yorkshire Regiment		28 men of the Yorkshire Regiment buried here, amongst 140 burials from WW1.

Hibers Trench Cemetery, Wancourt (France)
includes the graves of 10 soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment.

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La Chapelette British and Indian Cemetery, Peronne		La Ville-Aux-Bois British Cemetery		L'Homme Mort British Cemetery		Loker Churchyard, Belgium
contains the graves of 2 men of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains the graves of 4 men of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains the graves of 3 men of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains the graves of Lt. Cecil Hawdon, Sgt Robert Trafford, Private F J Smith and Private Bellwood

London Cemetery and Extension, Longueval		London Cemetery, Neuville-Vitasse		Lonsdale Cemetery, Authille (France)		Loos, St. Patrick's Cemetery
contains the identified graves of 3 men of the Yorkshire Regiment, and 1Green Howard from WW2.		contains the graves of 3 men of the Yorkshire Regiment, plus one memorial and one unidentified grave		includes the grave of Pte David Elliott.		includes the graves of 16 men of the Yorkshire Regiment

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Maple Copse Cemetery (Belgium)		Meaulte Military Cemetery, (Somme, France)
includes the graves of 16 men of the Yorkshire Regiment		includes the graves of 3 men of the Yorkshire Regiment

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Neuville-Vitasse Cemetery, Pas de Calais (France)		Norfolk Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt (France)
includes the graves of 11 men of the Yorkshire Regiment		includes the grave of Major S Loudon-Shand,VC, and 4 other men of the Yorkshire Regiment

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Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, France
contains the graves of 6 men of the Yorkshire Regiment

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Pernes British Cemetery, France		Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt
contains the graves of 6 men of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains the grave of 7 men of the Yorkshire Regiment

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Rancourt Military Cemetery		Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery		Rookery British Cemetery
contains the grave of 1 man of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains the graves of 16 soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains the graves of 14 soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment

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St. Martin Calvaire British Cemetery		St. Nicolas British Cemetery, France
Contains 3 graves of men of the Yorkshire Regiment		Contains 8 graves of men of the Yorkshire Regiment

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Tilloy British Cemetery		Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium
Contains 1 graves of an identified soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment		The largest Commonwealth War Grave cemetery in the world. 36 graves of identified men of the Yorkshire Regiment (several photographed), but a large number of Yorkshire Regiment soldiers "Known Only to God"

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Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery		Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, France
Contains the graves of Pte S W Brown, Major J S Palliser, CSM H Paylor and several unknown soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment.		Contains 6 graves of men of the Yorkshire Regiment

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Wancourt British Cemetery		Warlencourt British Cemetery		Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty
contains the graves of 31 soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment		Headstones and memorials for 21 identified soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment		contains the graves of 38 soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment

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INDIVIDUAL GRAVES

Where visitors to this website have sent in photos of individual graves of soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment, where the grave is just one of many in a cemetery, then the photo will be shown with details of the soldier and comments as to the cemetery where the grave is located.

For a lrger sized image of the soldier's grave, select the thumbnail image below.

Lance Corporal John B Laws, 16759. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mrs. H. Laws, of 41, Staverdale St. West, Dawdon Colliery, Seaham Harbour, Co. Durham. Killed 20 January 1916. Aged 21. Born West Dowden (sic) (Seaham Harbour), Enlisted Sunderland, Resided West Dowden (sic). Buried in BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION (NORD), France, which contains 4,403 Commonwealth burials of the First World War; 11 of the graves made in April 1918 were destroyed by shell fire and are represented by special memorials. There are also 17 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War and 154 German burials from both wars.

Private James McCamley. 23110. 13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 3 September 1916. Born Sevilmoor (Co. Down), Enlisted Middlesbrough, Resided Cargo Fleet. Buried in MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY, GRENAY, France, which contains 1,379 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. Photo provided by Aileen Grimmer

Private John Moran, 17776. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 28 January 1917. Born Ludworth (Durham), Enlisted Seaham Harbour. Buried in MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY, Belgium, where 1,657 servicemen of the First World War are buried or commemorated in this cemetery.

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