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IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden

The visit of Commonwealth graves in Communals Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France

pierre.vandervelden@pi.be

DOZINGHEM Military Cemetery (Westvleteren) (West Vlaanderen Belgium)

Page 1 The Pictures

Page 2 List of Casualties

Pte Henry George Collett 09/10/1917 aged 33
Here with his wife Hannah and children
Henry enlisted 24/05/1915 and was sent to France 17/02/1917, but was admitted to Hospital with Pyrexia and transfered to England for convalescence. He was sent a second time to France 23/07/1917. 08/10/1917, He was on the front, in Cemetery Trench, at 400 yards of Winchester Farm, south of Poelcapelle, where he was diedly wounded by Shrapnel to head and legs and fractured femur. He died the next day.
For his Grandson Bob Collett and Family
Pte F. Walshaw 15/07/1917 aged 35
Cpl Percy Granville Blyth 25/07/1917 aged 23
for his great niece Andrea Sanders nee Blyth
Gnr Ralph Walters Clarkson KIA 22/10/1917 aged 31
Ralph was born in 12/1886 in Preston, son of Ralph W. Clarkson and Ann Pacey.
In 1901, aged 14, he was a woollen drapers assistant.
He married Mary Ada Hall at Preston in 1908 and they had a daughter Phyllis born in 1909, he was a woollen merchants warehouseman.
For his great grandson Aidan Rimmer
Pte Albert Oldham 02/10/1917
for Samantha
Pte James George Evans 28/10/1917
Cpl Walter E. Downs 13/10/1917
Pte Ernest J. Wood 1886 - 05/08/1917
Pte Charles Holebrook 23/08/1917 aged 38
He was wounded near Langemarck during 3rd Ypres and DoW at 47th CCS.
His brother, Pte Pte Reginald Holebrook 25/10/1918 is buried in Harlebeke New British Cem.
His nephew Pte Allan Holebrook 25/10/1917 is commemorated in Tyne Cot Memorial.
for Paul Greenhalgh
Pte John. Henry Hughes MM 09/11/1917 aged 22
for his nephew John Hughes

 

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