duisans

graves

IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden

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

DUISANS British Cemetery (Etrun) (Pas de Calais France)

Page 1 The Pictures

Page 2 List of Casualties

Pte Charles Betchley 11/04/1917
husband of Gertrude Lucy Betchley,
Manor Farm Cottages, Wantage erkshire, (now Oxfordshire)
For Trevor Hancock, Wantage xfordshire U.K


Private Barton Grainger Holdforth 04/07/1917 aged 38


	Pte William Tapp 08/05/1917 aged 20 His brother, Pte Frederick G. Tapp is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial For Simon Bull (Northamptonshire U. K.)

Pte Nelson Ormerod 17/04/1917 aged 22
Nelson was wounded in Action on the 12/04/1917 and died at th 41st Clearing Station

Pte William Duddy 25/04/1917
He was born on 01/03/1897 and was miner, he enlisted in 03/1914 and served in France and Flanders from 07/1915.
He died from wounds received in action.


Pte John Brison 30/04/1917 Visited by his Nephew Mr L. O. Clark Also for his Great Nephew, Mr Brian Clark


Lt Frank Gale Berrill 28/09/1918 aged 21 For Avalon Eastman Oundle School Roll of Honour


Pte Charles Sydney Bingham 26/04/1917 Charles was born 28/12/1880 in Pelsall, Staffordshire, son of John Thomas Bingham and Lucy Harriet Heathcock. Husband of Mary Jane Barnett (formerly Bingham, nee Hughes), of The Boot Stores, Victoria Road, Horley, Surrey. He was previously of the 14th Bn London Regiment (London Scottish), before being transfered to the 88th Coy Machine Gun Corps. He was wounded in action 24/04 and died two days later. For his great grandson Craig Taggart

Sgt Alfred Bowers 22/09/1885 - 30/03/1918
Alfred was born in Orillia, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada, a son of A. James Bowers and Annie Siddle-Goring.
He was raised in the Severn Bridge area of Morrison Township, in the District of Muskoka.
At the time of his death he was survived by his parents, a sister Frances Kate, Mrs. I.A. Thomas, of Lansing, Michigan, USA, a half sister Annie, Mrs. Walter Carrington, of Hamilton, Ontario, and two half brothers, William Elliott Goring, of Hamilton, and George Henry Goring, of Seatle, Washington, USA.
The C.E.F Burial records read " Killed in Action, this non-commissioned officer's Battery was being heavily shelled, and after having seen to the safety of his crew he was proceeding to take cover himself, when he was hit by an enemy shell and instantly killed"
for the Ramara Historical Society http://ramarahistoricalsociety.net/

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Casualties informations come usualy from Commonwealth War Graves Commission, see links for more informations