BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY
Boezinge
Ieper
West-Vlaanderen
GENERAL DIRECTIONS: The Cemetery is located on the Diksmuidseweg road (N369) in the direction of Boezinge. From Ieper station turn left into M.Fochlaan and go to the roundabout, turn right and go to the next roundabout. Here turn left and drive to the next roundabout, where you should turn right into Oude Veurnestraat. Take the second turning on the left, which is the Diksmuidseweg and carry on under the motorway bridge and the cemetery is another 300 metres on the left hand side of the road. N.B. Bard Cottage Cemetery is the first cemetery on the left, the second being Talana Farm Cemetery.
For much of the First World war, the village of Boesinghe (now Boezinge) directly faced the German line across the Yser canal. Bard Cottage was a house a little set back from the line, close to a bridge called Bard's Causeway, and the cemetery was made nearby in a sheltered position under a high bank. Burials were made between June 1915 and October 1918 and they reflect the presence of the 49th (West Riding), the 38th (Welsh) and other infantry divisions in the northern sectors of the Ypres Salient, as well as the advance of artillery to the area in the autumn of 1917. After the Armistice, 46 graves were brought in to Plot IV, Row C, from the immediate area, including 32 from MARENGO FARM CEMETERY (this was located a few hundred metres to the south of Bard Cottage, on the same side of the road. It was used from June 1915 to August 1916). There are now 1,639 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 39 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate three casualties known to be buried among them. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
Casualty Details: UK 1622, Canada 15, South Africa 2, Germany 4, Total burials: 1643
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201957 Lance Corporal John Noblet 2nd/4th Bn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Killed by a shell, 26/10/1917, aged 23. Son of Charles and Elizabeth Noblet, of "Holly Bank," Addison Rd., Preston. Plot V. B. 20. Picture courtesy of John Garlington |
In Memory of: 4983 Private Ernest Horner 1st Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers 18/07/1917. Ernest was about 19 years old when he was killed and was from the Ardwick area of Manchester. His parents were James Horner and Emily Horner. Ernest served at Gallipoli with the Lancashire Fusiliers and was later posted to Ypres where he was killed Plot III. C. 3. No known picture of Ernest exists
Submitted by Alan Carty, Grandson of Ernest's sister Nellie
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17317 Private George Ernest Kilburn 7th Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 14/03/1916, aged 40. Husband of Eva Kilburn, of Harrison's Buildings, Post Office Lane, Outwood, Wakefield. Plot I. B. 4.
Picture courtesy of grandson, Peter Limer |
16443 Private Walter Skirrow 7th Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment 25/10/1917, aged 28.
Husband of Annie Hargreaves (formerly Skirrow),
of 27, Oxford St., Mexborough, Rotherham and father of Miriam, Walter,
Joseph, Annie and Frances Ypres Skirrow.
Picture courtesy of great granddaughter, Michelle Iddon |
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21633 Lance Corporal William Noble 2nd Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers 01/10/1917, aged 19. Son of George and Ellen Noble, of Droylsden, Manchester. Plot IV. I. 32. William was an orphan, his parents died when he was 7 and he enlisted when he was 16. He was injured on The Somme in 1916 and killed in action on the 1 October 1917 making preparations for the Battle of Poelkapelle. He was from Droylsden, Manchester Picture courtesy of great, great nephew Les Croft
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203173 Private
Benjamin J. Riding
2nd/4th Bn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
25/10/1917, aged 35.
Plot V. B. 50.
Picture courtesy of and dedicated by his Great Grandson Andrew Coustley of Western Australia
35998 Private
George Norman Davie
1st Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers
18/07/1917, aged 33.
Son of Edward James and Elizabeth Davie, of Burnley; husband of Ethel Davie, of 8, Whittlefield St., Burnley.
Coll. grave III. C. 3.
He left a widow Ethel Davie (nee Whinney) and a son Norman Davie
WELL-KNOWN DISTRICT AGENT. (Burnley Express 08/08/17) Picture
courtesy of nephew, Ken Whinney
Mrs Davie, of 8 Whittlefield
Street, Burnley, has been officially informed by the War Office that her
husband, Private George Norman Davie, 35998, Lancashire Fusiliers, was
killed in action July 18th. This came as a severe blow to her, as she had
previously received a letter from her husband saying that he had been
slightly wounded on July 13th, and that he was in hospital. She had no
reason to anticipate that his condition was critical.
The unfortunate soldier went up with his group from Burnley on June 13th,
1916, and after training at Barrow, Whitchurch and other places was drafted
out in February of the present year. He was 32 years of age, and leaves a
wife and one child. Previous to enlistment he was identified with St
Andrew’s Sunday School, being on the roll of honour there. He was also a
representative of the Blackburn Philanthropic Assurance Co., and the first
agent from the Burnley district to fall in the service of his country.
Private Davie was a quite, unassuming nature, but one who gained the respect
of the many that formed his acquaintance.
Two other brothers are serving in Private William Edward Davie, of the
Lancashire Fusiliers, Machine Gun Section, who has been out eleven months;
and Private Philip Davie, in training with the Royal Field Artillery, in the
south of England.
Plan of cemetery
Plan courtesy of Barry Cuttell
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