ORLY-SUR-MORIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Seine-et-Marne
France
Visiting Information
The Commonwealth graves are near the entrance, in a vault under the village War Memorial.
Historical Information
Orly-sur-Morlin was taken in September 1914 by the 8th and 9th Infantry Brigades.
The communal cemetery contains ten Commonwealth burials associated with this incident, six of them unidentified.
Burial details
8879 Private E. Farrell, 2nd Bn. Royal Irish Regiment, died 8th September 1914. Husband of Mary Farrell of Cappadeen, Ballinahinch, Newport, Co. Tipperary
Captain Anthony Morris Coats Hewat, Royal Scots, died 8th September 1914, aged 29. Son of Lt. Col. Henry R. C. Hewat and Jessie McKenzie Hewat of Fayre Oakes, Hereford; husband of Stella Eleonora Hutton (formerly Hewat)
5417 Private P. Lydon, 2nd Bn. Royal Irish Regiment, died 8th September 1914.
10897 Private W. Power, 2nd Bn. Royal Irish Regiment. 8th September 1914, aged 26.
Pictures © Barry Cuttell
The Commonwealth graves are near the entrance, in a vault under the village War Memorial.
Historical Information
Orly-sur-Morlin was taken in September 1914 by the 8th and 9th Infantry Brigades.
The communal cemetery contains ten Commonwealth burials associated with this incident, six of them unidentified.
Burial details
8879 Private E. Farrell, 2nd Bn. Royal Irish Regiment, died 8th September 1914. Husband of Mary Farrell of Cappadeen, Ballinahinch, Newport, Co. Tipperary
Captain Anthony Morris Coats Hewat, Royal Scots, died 8th September 1914, aged 29. Son of Lt. Col. Henry R. C. Hewat and Jessie McKenzie Hewat of Fayre Oakes, Hereford; husband of Stella Eleonora Hutton (formerly Hewat)
5417 Private P. Lydon, 2nd Bn. Royal Irish Regiment, died 8th September 1914.
10897 Private W. Power, 2nd Bn. Royal Irish Regiment. 8th September 1914, aged 26.
Pictures © Barry Cuttell
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INSCRIPTION.
KILLED IN ACTION AT THE BATTLE OF MORIN FROM HIS SORROWFUL FATHER AND MOTHER.
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