IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden
The visit of Commonwealth graves in Communals Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France
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TYNE COT Cemetery (ZONNEBEKE)(West Vlaanderen Belgium)
Page 1 The CEMETERY
Page 2 The list of Casualties
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| Capt Francis
Spencer 26/09/1917 aged 36 For Anthony Bagshaw (Mansfield Woodhouse U. K.) |
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| Sergeant J. A. Stevenson 26/10/1917 Aged 28 | |
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| Pte James Henry
Goss KIA 04/10/1917 James was born Abt 1891, he served in The Devonshire Regiment, before to be transfered in the Machine Gun regiment. On right, the family memorial gravestone in Northam, Devon, England. For Lisa Nap (U.K.) |
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| Gnr Leslie C.
Withams MM 12/10/1917 For Mrs Kim Hitchiner. |
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| Pte Stanley Arthur Risby
Barton 03/10/1917 aged 19 Son of Joseph and Julia Alice Barton of Elm Tree House, Hitcham Suffolk. for Mike Bird |
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| Pte James McGenn
05/11/1914 aged 27 7351, 1st Batallion, Cameron Highlanders Son of James and Annie McGenn Husband of Christina (Brown) McGenn Father of James Brown McGenn and Robert Brown McGenn for his Great Niece Georgia Kovalik, Ontario, Canada and his Great Granddaughter Diane McGenn, Saskatchewan, Canada |
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| Cpl Ernest William Serls KIA 04/10/1917
aged 28 Ernest enlisted 05/04/1916 and was promoted Cpl 11/09/1917 For Michelle young |
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| Pte James E. Wallace 23/10/1917 aged 25 |
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| Pte Sydney Thomas Marks 1891 - 01/08/1917 Photo taken in 1916, Sydney wears a wounded suit 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment Son of Thomas and Alice Marks, Pye Corner, Hambrook, Bristol For John Thatcher |
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| Sjt Harry Westerman 09/10/1917 aged 30 Harry enlisted in 08/1914 from the Special reserve. He was posted overseas in 04/1915 to the Laventie sector and late 1915, to the Canal Bank at Ypres. Somme 1916, after surviving the 1st July, posted to Etaples 33rd I.B.D. as an Instructor. 1917, gassed at Nieuport and sent to Le Treport to recuperate, then, back to Etaples. Home on leave to UK late September 1917. Harry was KIA at Poelcapelle. Prior to the War, he was a 'Wood Sawyer' in a Timber Yard, then, employed by John Smiths Brewery, Tadcaster, Yorkshire. For Christopher Noble |
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| Pte John Moore 09/10/1917 aged 21 More about him on http://ashtonpals.webs.com/1917page5.htm |
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| L/Cpl Edward Hague 09/10/1917 More about him on http://ashtonpals.webs.com/1917page5.htm |
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| Pte John Healey 09/10/1917 aged 26 More about him on http://ashtonpals.webs.com/1917page5.htm |
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| L/Cpl John Payne 09/10/1917 aged 23 More about him on http://ashtonpals.webs.com/1917page5.htm |
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| Pte William Simmonds 23/10/1914 | |
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| Lt Charles Wilson Cutcliffe Bluett MC 03/11/1917 | |
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| Pte Ernest William Hare 28/10/1917 for Mark Dinan |
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| Pte James William Ward 26/04/1915 aged 27 James was born 1888 in Kibblesworth, County Durham, one of 12 children of whom only 9 survived, 5 boys and 4 girls, born to George Ward 1865, a coal miner from Northumberland and Mary his wife. James was working as a coal miner but also enlisted in the Durham Light Infantry as a Territorial in 1909 as Private 1041, 1st/8th Battalion, “E” Coy, giving his address as 1, High Row, Kibblesworth. He was discharged in 1913 as having completed his term of 4 years, the following year marrying Mary H. Oakes in the district of Lanchester. At the outbreak of war in 1914 he was automatically recalled to the colours and assigned as Private 2406, reassigned to the 1st/8th Battalion, 50th Northumbrian Division. They moved to Bolden Colliery in early August, then Ravensworth Park and were in Newcastle-upon-Tyne by October. On 17/04/1915 they landed as part of the British Expeditionary Force at Boulogne, James arrived in the field on 20/04/1915. After the failure of the British attacks at Neuve Chapelle the Germans attacked Ypres and without any nursery period the 1st/8th along with the other territorial battalions of the regiment were rushed into battle on the northern salient near St. Julien and the Gravenstafl Ridge. James was accepted to have died on or after 26/04/1915, six days after his arrival at the front. After Armistice his body was found on the battlefield map reference D. 8. A. 60. 20., exhumed, identified by means of a disc and locket and brought into this cemetery for reburial with full honours . His widow Mary Hannah received all monies due to him, a pension, his personal effects of a disc and locket along with his awards of the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. In God’s safe keeping. Rest In Peace. Pauline Priano. |
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| Pte Alexander Watt 22/08/1917 aged 32 | |
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| Pte Charles Joseph Walsh 12/10/1917 aged 29 | |
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| Sjt Thomas Patten DCM 08/05/1915 aged 39 | |
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| Pte Robert Lyons Harley 04/101917 aged 31 | |
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| Pte Wilfred Talbot 23/11/1917 aged 35 |
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| Pte Alfred Hurtle Leighton 04/10/1917 aged 23 | |
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| Pte James Greig Smith 04/10/14917 aged 20 | |
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| Pte Wilfred Clynes Newman 04/10/1917 aged 28 |
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| Cpl Mark William Thompson 05/10/1917 | |
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| Pte Thomas H. Watts 01/08/1917 |
3 587 casualties
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Casualties informations come usualy from Commonwealth War Graves Commission, see links for more informations
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