BORRE CHURCHYARD
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​Nord

​France

Location Information

Borre is a village 3 kilometres east of Hazebrouck on the D642. The Churchyard is located in the centre of the village.


Historical Information

There are now 10, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. The dates of death are from 1915 and 1918.


(Click on Individual Headstone for Details)

6288 Private
Albert Ernest Leslie Jewell, 
6th Bn. Australian Infantry
15th April 1918.






Portrait of 6288 Private (Pte) Albert Ernest Leslie Jewell, 6th Battalion. A farmer of Thomastown, Victoria, prior to enlistment, he embarked with the 20th Reinforcements on HMAT Euripides on 11 September 1916. Pte Jewell was later killed in action on 15 April 1918.

This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930's, the Australian War Memorial purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers' notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative.

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Outdoor group portrait of Australian Army Medical Corps, 28th Reinforcements, who enlisted and trained in Brisbane, then embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on 2 August 1917 as part of the May 1917 Reinforcements aboard HMAT Miltiades for Glasgow, Scotland, en route to the Western Front. 17542 Private (Pte) Arnold David Young, 3rd Field Ambulance is seated front row, left. Others, positions unknown, are: 17525 Pte William Joseph Bourke; 17526 Pte James Martin Brand; 17527 Pte Roy Bridson Cribb; 17528 Pte Leslie Cameron; 17529 Pte Arthur Arden Davenport Clarson; 17530 Pte William Henry Dalrymple; 17531 Pte Samuel Burnett Donaldson; 17532 Pte Robert Davis, (later awarded Military Medal); 17533 Pte George Henry Denham; 17534 Pte Maurice Gleeson, (later 1st Australian Field Ambulance, died of wounds received in action near Borre, France, on 14 April 1918); 17535 Pte Aaron Ginsberg; 17536 Pte George Woodthorpe Hackett; 17537 Pte James Andrews Murphy; 17538 Pte Samuel Monks; 17539 Pte Samuel George Monro; 17540 Pte John William Sheldon; 17541 Pte Allan Clifford Trundle.