Longueval Communal Cemetery

Aisne, France

Pictures courtesy of Barry Cuttell

 

Longueval is a village in the Department of the Aisne, Northern France and is situated 25 km south of Laon in the direction of Fismes. Some sixty metres down the main path on right are three plots where 19 dead of the 9th Lancers are buried. They all died on the 29th Sept. 1914 when their billets were shelled.

Burial details:

 

L/Cpl. J. A. BOWBY
Sgt. S. CALDWELL
Pte. A. W. W. CARDEN
Pte. William Henry COOPER, aged 19, Son of Henry and Eliza Cooper of 53 Gordon Road, Lower Edmonton, London
Sqdn. Quartermaster Sgt. Thomas Marriott CURTIS, aged 39. Husband of Mary Ellen Curtis of 2 Salem Place, Beverley, Yorkshire
Trumpeter John Augustus DALY, aged 27. Son of Mary Ann Lucy Norris (formerly Daily) and the late John Daly
L/Cpl. J. S. EDWARDS, aged 22. Son of John H. Edwards of "The Cottage" Bury's Court, near Reigate, Surrey
Pte. A. FALLOWS
Sgt. E. de L. GIBBS
L/Cpl. J. de P. MAHY
Pte. J. A. POULTON
Farrier Sgt. G. PURSEY
Pte. A. E. ROBERTS
Pte. W. T. RUSSELL
L/Cpl. G. SCOTCHER
Pte. Alfred Booth SHERWOOD, son of Richard Sherwood of Hull
2nd Lt. George Edward TAYLOR-WHITEHEAD, aged 21. Son of George Henry and Cicely Taylor-Whitehead
Pte. S. TEASDALE
Sqdn. Sgt. Major William Frederocl WESTCOMBE, aged 32. Husband of Dora Westcombe of 15 Alma Road, Yeterborough
 

 

 

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