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BARON COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Oise

​France


Location Information

Baron is a small village in the Oise department in northern France. Entering from the West, turn left at the Post Office into the Rue de Cimetière and the communal cemetery is a few yards on the right.

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History Information

Baron Communal Cemetery contains 16 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, all dating from September 1914.

Pictures © Johan Pauwels
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Lieutenant
Percy Voltelin Heath
Royal Horse Guards
4th September 1914.

Inscription "Son Of Sir James & Lady Heath Of Oxenson Hall, Market Harboro"

Son of Sir James Heath, 1st Bart., and Lady Heath, of Oxenden Hall, Market Harboro'.

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Lieutenant
Lionel Frank Hastings Mundy, Mentioned in Despatches
"L" Battery Royal Horse Artillery
3rd September 1914, aged 28.


Son of the late Lionel and Ella Tisdale Mundy.

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Lieutenant
Lynton Woolmer White
1st (King's) Dragoon Guards attached to The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards
3rd September 1914, aged 28.

Inscription "Thy Will Be Done"

Son of Sir Woolmer White, 1st Bart., and Lady White, of Southleigh Park, Havant, Hants; husband of Dorothea White.

Other Burials

4205 Private Horace John Collins, 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), died 1st September 1914, aged 21. 
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Collins.


780 Private Herbert Comerford, 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), died 1st September 1914.

3514 Private Albert Farmer, 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), died 1st September 1914.

67611 Gunner Charles Alfred Gidney, "L" Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, died 8th September 1914.

64153 Gunner Edward Thomas Marsh, "L" Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, died 3rd September 1914, aged 21.

4941 Private William Norton, 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), died 1st September 1914.

7859 Private Gilbert Henry Parkhouse, 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), died 1st September 1914. Son of Mrs. E. Parkhouse, of 12, Old Orchard Terrace, Walcot St. Bath.

5438 Private Harry Frank Richardson, 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), died 1st September 1914, aged 21. Son of James and Sarah Richardson, of East View, Passfield, Bordon, Hants.

33114 Corporal Frederick Sidney Taylor, "L" Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, died 8th September 1914.

68411 Driver Frederick Percy Tester, "L" Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, died 8th September 1914, aged 21. Son of Mr. C. and Mrs. H. Tester, of Stoney Lane, Goudhurst, Kent.

5947 Corporal Jesse William Turner, "B" Squadron, 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), died 1st September 1914, aged 32. Husband of Mary Annie Turner, of 2, Hillside, Cemetery Rd., Aldershot.

5378 Lance Corporal William James Turner, 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), died 1st September 1914.

5596 Serjeant Charles Bull Weedon, "L" Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, died 8th September 1914, aged 36.

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