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Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension (France, Somme) |
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Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension - 1
Photo : Chris Cosgrove (<trainscpc@aol.com>)
The first Commonwealth burial took place in the communal cemetery in October 1915 and the last on 1 July 1916. By that date, field ambulances had come to the village in readiness for the attack on the German front line eight kilometres away, and the extension was begun on the eastern side of the cemetery. The fighting from July to November 1916 on the northern part of the Somme front accounts for the majority of the burials in the extension, but some are from the German attack in the spring of 1918. The extension contains 1,331 First World War Commonwealth burials and two from the Second World War. There are also 18 German war graves in the extension. The communal cemetery contains 46 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 158 French war graves.
10 soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment are buried in this cemetery.
We are extremely grateful to Chris Cosgrove (<trainscpc@aol.com>) for photographing the cemetery and the graves of the soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
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Private Michael James Breeze. 17726.
8th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of M. E. Breeze, of 10, Back South Railway St., Seaham Harbour. Killed 8 August 1916. Aged 36. Born Yarmouth, Enlisted Seaham Harbour. |
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Private Joseph Colbeck. 24394. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Thomas and the late Margaret A. Colbeck, of Middlesbrough. Died 11 July 1916. Aged 19. Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough. (SDGW = "9th Battalion", CWGC = "11th Battalion". Name shown as "J R Colbeck" on York's NE Railway Memorial plaque.) "DEATH DIVIDES
BUT MEMORY EVER CLINGS GOD'S WILL BE DONE" |
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2nd Lieutenant Ernest
Cole. 14th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, attached to 8th Battalion. Husband of Florence B. Cole, of 14, Ewhurst Rd., Crofton Park, Brockley, London. Killed 8 August 1916. Aged 28. "GOD IS LOVE" The following biographical notes are provided by Robert coulson in his Biographies of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;- "Ernest Cole joined the 8th Battalion in a draft from the Base Depot in time for the Somme offensive in the summer of 1916. He took part in the attack on Horseshoe Trench and the capture of Contalmaison in July and on August 6th the battalion were ordered to capture and clear a section of German line known as Munster Alley. Three groups of bombers, all volunteers undertook the attack, 2nd Lt Cole leading one of the platoons. In this action Ernest Cole was wounded and taken back for treatment but died of his wounds two days later on August 8th 1916 at the age of 28." |
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Private George Colley. 17070. 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 16 September 1916. Born Middlesbrough, Enlisted Middlesbrough. "O GOD WHY THIS
GREAT SACRIFICE" |
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Private Bertie Harrowsmith, 20463.
6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Thomas and Jane Harrowsmith. Killed 4 October 1916. Aged 30. Born Burton Salmon, Enlisted York, Resided Burton Salmon (Yorks). "PEACE AT LAST"
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Serjeant Arthur Robert Lewis. 13369.
8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Died 29 July 1916. Born Stockton-on-Tees, Enlisted Middlesbrough. |
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Private George Arthur Potter, 18949.
6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of George and Mary Ann Potter, of Angel Inn, Loftus, Yorks. Killed 6 August 1916. Aged 24. Born Whitby, Enlisted Richmond, Resided Loftus (Yorks). "LAID TO REST
FAR, FAR FROM HOME BUT NOT FROM OUR HEARTS MOTHER" |
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Private Albert Radford. 5698. 6th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, formerly 30596 the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Richard and Mary Ann Radford, of 1, East View, Long St., Thirsk. Killed 14 December 1916. Aged 28. Enlisted Richmond (Yorks), Resided Thirsk. |
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Private Frederick Todd. 14367. 8th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Isabella Todd, of 48, Woodbine St., Hendon, Sunderland. Killed 12 July 1916. Aged 26. Born Hendon, Enlisted Sunderland. "TIME CHANGES MANY THINGS
BUT LOVING MEMORY ALWAYS CLINGS" |
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Private James Tunstall. 18125. 9th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of Margaret H. Tunstall, of 19, Coronation St., Sunderland. Killed 2 August 1916. Aged 38. Born Sunderland, Enlisted Sunderland. "I HAVE FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT"
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Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension - 2
Photo : Chris Cosgrove (<trainscpc@aol.com>)
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