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IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden

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

pierre.vandervelden@pi.be

PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL (Hainaut Belgium)

Pte Ernest Ball 09/05/1915 Aged 20
for Anthony Bagshaw (Mansfield Woodhouse U.K.)
Pte John William Smith 09/05/1915
for Anthony Bagshaw (Mansfield Woodhouse U.K.)
Pte Albert Phillips - Taylor 20/10/1914 aged 26
He served six years in India.
Having returned to civil life he became a reservist only five months previous to the outbreak of war.
Called up by General Proclamation, he joined on 05/08/1914 and sailed to France about 07/09/1914.
for his great great nephew Laurence Paul Taylor (Forest Town, Mansfield, Notts).
and for Anthony Bagshaw (Mansfield Woodhouse U.K.)
L/Cpl F. A. Wyer M.M. 14 April 1918
2nd/Lt Russell Louis Harry Simmons 25/09/1915
He was born 27/02/1895
for Avalon Eastman
Oundle School Roll of Honour
2nd/Lt Basil Montgomery Coates 07/09/1915
He was born 16/09/1893
for Avalon Eastman
Oundle School Roll of Honour
Cpt Geoffrey Boles Donaldson 19/07/1916
He was born 25/11/1893
for Avalon Eastman
Oundle School Roll of Honour
Pte John William Duxbury 13/04/1918 aged 29
Lt Jesse Marson Atkin 07/11/1914 aged 23
Pte Harold Collins 09/05/1915 aged 20
for his great niece Jackie Loos
Rfm James Norwood KIA 09/05/1915
James was from Belfast and had previously served in India and Aden.
Proudly remembered by all his family
Capt Harold Hunt Caffyn 22/03/1915 aged 33
for Ms Alison Caffyn & Dr H.J. Krijnen
2nd/Lt Rowland le Belward Egerton 30/10/1914 aged 19
for Ms Alison Caffyn & Dr H.J. Krijnen
Pte Thomas Walter Williams 28/11/1914 aged 19
for Ms Alison Caffyn & Dr H.J. Krijnen
Pte Thomas Hill 30/01/1915 aged 29
for Ms Alison Caffyn & Dr H.J. Krijnen
L/Cpl John Edwin Garratt 16/05/1915
for Ms Alison Caffyn & Dr H.J. Krijnen
Pte John Taylor 16/05/1915 aged 33
for Ms Alison Caffyn & Dr H.J. Krijnen
L/Cpl Frederick William Francis Greenway 15/12/1914
for Ms Alison Caffyn & Dr H.J. Krijnen
2nd/Lt Charles Roger Ripley 22/10/1914 aged 26
Pte Robert Candlish 14/04/1918 aged 19
His brother, Pte Thomas Candlish is remembered in the Loos Memorial
2nd/Lt George Bertram Monk 18/12/1914 aged 23
Pte Joseph George Dobson 04/06/1915
Pte Joel Lee Clark 13/04/1918 aged 27
Pte John Osborne Maddra 12/03/1897 - 12/04/1918
John was born in Sculcoates, Hull, the son of Joseph and Sarah Jane (nee Armstrong) Maddra of 8 Marsh Street, Scott Street, Hull.
He was educated in Lincoln Street School there; was employed at Messrs. Shaw’s Malt Works, Wincolmlee.
He enlisted on 01/1915 abd served in Egypt and France & Flanders from 12/1915.
John died of wounds received in action at Armentières.
His Commanding Officer, Lt. C. Shaw, wrote: “We all miss him greatly here, as he was always very cheerful and willing and brave in action; we cannot afford to lose men like him, and I miss him personally, as I always relied on him when any work out of the ordinary had to be done.”
for his great nephew Pete Maddra
Pte Albert Hall 04/09/1918
His brother Gnr John (Jack) Hall 24/09/1917 is buried in Menin South Road Mil. Cem.
His second brother, Pte James Hall 20/05/1918 is buried in Berlin South-Western Cem. (Germany)
Pte John Barker 12/04/1918 aged 25
for Alasdair J. Malcolm
http://prestwickwarmemorial.btck.co.uk/
Pte Frederick Higginson 15/12/1914
for Ms Alison Caffyn & Dr H.J. Krijnen
Pte Frederick Charles Sayers 10/05/1915 aged 20

11 367 casualties

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

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