Re: Illness & Fighting in the Great War


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Posted by John Nichols on May 09, 2003 at 20:07:45 from 165.91.199.202 user Mcneacail.

In Reply to: Re: Illness & Fighting in the Great War posted by Peter H on May 09, 2003 at 16:29:22:

The Border Regiment,

The web site for this regiment shows that it had 13 Bns. He could have been anywhere from India to Ireland to the Somme.


I have an eldest daughter and one can deduce that one goes gray at an early age.

She is as feisty as Nancy, but a lousy cook.

And she never would read Ransome.

I found this in the COmmonwealth War Graves Database.

Debt of Honour Register
In Memory of

R BLACKETT

Private
240880
1st/5th Bn., Northumberland Fusiliers

who died on
Tuesday 14 November 1916 .


Cemetery: WARLENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERYPas de Calais, France
Grave or Reference Panel Number: VI. F. 2.
Location: Warlencourt British Cemetery lies on the east side of the D929, to the south-east of Warlencourt village and 5 kilometres south-west of Bapaume. CWGC signposts on the D929 give advance warning of arrival at the Cemetery.
Historical Information: The two villages of Warlencourt and Eaucourt-L'Abbaye as well as the Butte were the scene of very fierce fighting in 1916. Eaucourt was taken by the 47th (London) Division early in October. The Butte was attacked by that and other Divisions, to whom the graves in this cemetery bear witness, but it was not relinquished by the enemy until the following 26th February. The 51st (Highland) Division fought a delaying action here on the 25th March, 1918, and the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division recaptured the ground on the 25th August, 1918. The cemetery was made late in 1919, by concentrations from the battlefields of Warlencourt and Le Sars. There are now 3,505, 1914-18 Commonwealth war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 1,823 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 44 soldiers from the United Kingdom, nine from Australia, and two from South Africa, known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of eight soldiers from the United Kingdom and seven from Australia, buried in Hexham Road Cemetery, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. There are also 2 Foreign National casualties buried here The cemetery covers an area of 10,300 square metres and is enclosed by a low brick wall on the road front, and on the other three sides by a concrete curb. The only considerable burial ground moved into this cemetery was:- HEXHAM ROAD CEMETERY, LE SARS, on the West side of the Abbey grounds. (Hexham Road was the name given to the road leading from Warlencourt to Eaucourt. Le Sars was captured by the 23rd Division on the 7th October, 1916, and again by the Third Army on the 25th August, 1918.) This cemetery was used from November, 1916, to October, 1917.
Display Record of Commemoration


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