TOURNAI COMMUNAL CEMETERY ALLIED EXTENSION
Hainaut
Belgium
GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 50.596, Longitude: 3.37577
© Johan Pauwels
Location Information
Tournai Communal Cemetery is located in the south-west district of Tournai, on the Chaussee De Douai (N508), a road leading from the R52 Tournai ring road.
900 metres after leaving the R523 and joining the N508, lies the left hand turning onto the Chaussee de Willemeau, and the cemetery is along this road on the right, fronted by large iron gates.
Visiting Information
The cemetery is open from 08.00 to 17.45 each day, including Saturday and Sunday.
Wheelchair access is possible via the main entrance.
Historical Information
Tournai was captured by the German II Corps on 23 August 1914, in spite of resistance from a French Territorial Brigade, and the town remained in German hands until it was entered by the 47th (London) and 74th (Yeomanry) Divisions on 8 November 1918. The 51st (Highland) Casualty Clearing Station arrived on 14 November and remained until 20 July 1919. During the occupation, the German sick and wounded were nursed in the "Asile", whilst the Commonwealth and Allied were cared for in the Hopital Notre-Dame.
The (Southern) Communal Cemetery, in the Faubourg-St.Martin, was used and extended by the Germans, although the graves were later regrouped by nationality and some were brought in from other cemeteries in a wide area around Tournai. For instance (the numbers following the names indicate the numbers of British graves involved, and refer to United Kingdom soldiers unless it is noted otherwise; the dates are the dates of death):-
ANDERLUES COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one, Oct. 1918).
ATH GERMAN CEMETERY (Hainaut), at Trieu-Perilleux, on the South-East side of the town (six buried by Germans, 1917-18., 23 buried by British (mainly by 2nd Australian C.C.S.), Dec. 1918-Jan. 1919).
AULNOIS CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (one, Nov. 1918).
AUTREPPE CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (five, Nov. 1918).
AUWEGEM CHURCHYARD (East Flanders) (one R.A.F., Oct. 1918).
AYWAILLE CHURCHYARD (Liege) (one, Feb. 1919).
BAISIEUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (ten unidentified 1914; one, Nov. 1918).
BALATRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Namur) (one, Nov. 1918).
BELLEGHEM CHURCHYARD (West Flanders) (two, Oct. and Nov. 1918).
BLANDAIN CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (12 Oct. and Nov. 1918).
BONSECOURS COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (48 U.K., one R.M.L.I., one R.A.F. and 12 unidentified soldiers buried by Germans, 1914-18).
BRAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one, Dec. 1918).
BRUYELLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (four, Nov. 1918).
CHATELET COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one A.I.F., Feb. 1919).
ELLEMELLE CHURCHYARD (Liege) (one, Dec. 1918).
ELLIGNIES-STE. ANNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (two, buried by Germans Oct. 1918).
ETTERBEEK COMMUNAL CEMETERY, WOLUWE-ST. LAMBERT (Brabant) (four, Nov. 1918).
FAMILLEUREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one, buried by Germans Sept. 1918).
FAYT-LE-FRANC CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (one, Feb. 1919).
FLEURUS COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (four, died as prisoners in the Ecole Moyenne, Oct. 1918).
FOREST-LES-BRUXELLES COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Brabant) (two U.K. and one Indian, Feb.-May 1919).
FORVILLE CHURCHYARD (Namur) (one, buried by Germans Oct., 1918).
GENAPPE COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Brabant) (one, buried by Germans Nov. 1918).
GRAMMONT COMMUNAL CEMETERY, in the neighbouring commune of GOEFFERDINGEN (East Flanders) (12 U.K. and five South African, buried by Germans 1917-18; one, March 1919).
HAINE-ST. PAUL (BOULY) COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one, buried by Germans Nov. 1918).
HANNUT NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Liege) (one, Nov. 1918).
HANRET COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Namur) (one, Nov. 1918).
HARMIGNIES CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (two, Aug. 1914; two, Nov. 1918).
HASSELT COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Limbourg) (one, buried by Germans with Germans, Portuguese and Russians, Nov. 1918).
HERINNES-LES-ENGHIEN CHURCHYARD (Brabant) (one, buried by Germans Oct. 1918).
JEMELLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Namur) (two, buried by Germans Nov. 1918).
LABLIAU COMMUNAL CEMETERY, MARCQ (Hainaut) (two R.F.C., Aug. 1914).
LA FLAMENGRIE CHURCHYARD (Nord) (two, Nov. 1918).
LANDENNE-LES-COUTHUIN CHURCHYARD (Liege) (one Canadian, Nov. 1918).
LAROCHE COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Luxembourg) (one, Dec. 1918).
LASNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY, LASNE-CHAPELLE ST. LAMBERT (Brabant) (one Canadian, April 1919).
LEERS-NORD COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (five, Nov. 1918).
LONGUEVILLE CHURCHYARD (Brabant) (one Canadian, Feb. 1919).
MAILLEN COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Namur) (one, Jan. 1919).
MARLOIE CHURCHYARD, WAHA (Luxembourg) (one, Nov. 1918).
MARQUAIN CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (three, Oct. 1918).
MORLANWELZ COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (four buried by Germans 1918; six buried by British Oct. 1918-Feb. 1919).
MOUSTIER-LES-FRASNES GERMAN CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one, buried by Germans Oct. 1918).
ODRIMONT CHURCHYARD, LIERNEUX (Liege) (one, Dec. 1918).
OLLIGNIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one, Dec. 1918).
PEISSANT COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one, buried by Germans Oct. 1918).
PIETREBAIS CHURCHYARD (Brabant) (one, Nov. 1918).
QUEVAUCAMPS COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (two, Nov. 1918 and Jan. 1919).
RAMEGNIES CHURCHYARD, RAMEGNIES-CHIN (Hainaut) (12 U.K. and two R.A.F., April 1917-Oct. 1918, originally buried in FROYENNES GERMAN CEMETERY, on the road from Tournai to Pont-A-Chin; 17 buried by British Oct. and Nov. 1918).
RANSART COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one, Dec. 1918).
REBECQ-ROGNON COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Brabant) (one, Feb. 1919).
RENDEUX-BAS CHURCHYARD, RENDEUX (Luxembourg) (one, Dec. 1918).
RONGY CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (two, Oct. and Nov. 1918).
RONGY PROTESTANT CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (eleven, Oct. and Nov. 1918).
ST. VITH COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Liege, formerly Rhine Province) (one, buried by Germans Oct. 1918).
SARLARDINGE CHURCHYARD (East Flanders) (one, Dec. 1918).
SENY COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Liege) (one, Dec. 1918).
SPIENNES CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (one U.K., two R.N.D., one Canadian, Nov. 1918).
THIELT COMMUNAL CEMETERY (West Flanders) (one, Oct. 1918).
THIMOUGIES CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (one, buried by Germans Oct. 1918).
TIRLEMONT COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Brabant) (two, buried by Germans Oct. 1918).
VILLE-SUR-HAINE CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (one, Nov. 1918) buried originally near Ecluse No.2).
WAYAUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one Indian, Feb. 1919).
The Allied extension now contains 689 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 34 of them unidentified. There are also 117 Russian burials, all of men who died as prisoners of war, and two Belgian war graves.
Almost all of the 52 Second World War burials in the extension date from May 1940 and the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary Force ahead of the German advance.
Total Burials: 873.
World War One Commonwealth Identified Burials: United Kingdom 611, Canada 30, Australia 5, South Africa 5, India 4, New Zealand 1. Total 656.
World War One Unidentified Burials: 34.
Other Nationalities: Russia 117, Belgium 2. Total 119.
World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 44.
World War Two Unidentified Casualties: 8.
The Allied Extension was designed by Charles Henry Holden and William Harrison Cowlishaw
Dedications
270045 Company Quartermaster Serjeant Philip Wolsey, 10th (Royal East Kent & West Kent Yeomanry Bn.) The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 8th November 1918, aged 29. Son of William Edward and Margaret Ethel Wolsey, of 19, Limes Rd., Folkestone. Born at South Shields.
Remembered by Rowena Bennett
Tournai Communal Cemetery is located in the south-west district of Tournai, on the Chaussee De Douai (N508), a road leading from the R52 Tournai ring road.
900 metres after leaving the R523 and joining the N508, lies the left hand turning onto the Chaussee de Willemeau, and the cemetery is along this road on the right, fronted by large iron gates.
Visiting Information
The cemetery is open from 08.00 to 17.45 each day, including Saturday and Sunday.
Wheelchair access is possible via the main entrance.
Historical Information
Tournai was captured by the German II Corps on 23 August 1914, in spite of resistance from a French Territorial Brigade, and the town remained in German hands until it was entered by the 47th (London) and 74th (Yeomanry) Divisions on 8 November 1918. The 51st (Highland) Casualty Clearing Station arrived on 14 November and remained until 20 July 1919. During the occupation, the German sick and wounded were nursed in the "Asile", whilst the Commonwealth and Allied were cared for in the Hopital Notre-Dame.
The (Southern) Communal Cemetery, in the Faubourg-St.Martin, was used and extended by the Germans, although the graves were later regrouped by nationality and some were brought in from other cemeteries in a wide area around Tournai. For instance (the numbers following the names indicate the numbers of British graves involved, and refer to United Kingdom soldiers unless it is noted otherwise; the dates are the dates of death):-
ANDERLUES COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one, Oct. 1918).
ATH GERMAN CEMETERY (Hainaut), at Trieu-Perilleux, on the South-East side of the town (six buried by Germans, 1917-18., 23 buried by British (mainly by 2nd Australian C.C.S.), Dec. 1918-Jan. 1919).
AULNOIS CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (one, Nov. 1918).
AUTREPPE CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (five, Nov. 1918).
AUWEGEM CHURCHYARD (East Flanders) (one R.A.F., Oct. 1918).
AYWAILLE CHURCHYARD (Liege) (one, Feb. 1919).
BAISIEUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (ten unidentified 1914; one, Nov. 1918).
BALATRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Namur) (one, Nov. 1918).
BELLEGHEM CHURCHYARD (West Flanders) (two, Oct. and Nov. 1918).
BLANDAIN CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (12 Oct. and Nov. 1918).
BONSECOURS COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (48 U.K., one R.M.L.I., one R.A.F. and 12 unidentified soldiers buried by Germans, 1914-18).
BRAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one, Dec. 1918).
BRUYELLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (four, Nov. 1918).
CHATELET COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one A.I.F., Feb. 1919).
ELLEMELLE CHURCHYARD (Liege) (one, Dec. 1918).
ELLIGNIES-STE. ANNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (two, buried by Germans Oct. 1918).
ETTERBEEK COMMUNAL CEMETERY, WOLUWE-ST. LAMBERT (Brabant) (four, Nov. 1918).
FAMILLEUREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one, buried by Germans Sept. 1918).
FAYT-LE-FRANC CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (one, Feb. 1919).
FLEURUS COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (four, died as prisoners in the Ecole Moyenne, Oct. 1918).
FOREST-LES-BRUXELLES COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Brabant) (two U.K. and one Indian, Feb.-May 1919).
FORVILLE CHURCHYARD (Namur) (one, buried by Germans Oct., 1918).
GENAPPE COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Brabant) (one, buried by Germans Nov. 1918).
GRAMMONT COMMUNAL CEMETERY, in the neighbouring commune of GOEFFERDINGEN (East Flanders) (12 U.K. and five South African, buried by Germans 1917-18; one, March 1919).
HAINE-ST. PAUL (BOULY) COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one, buried by Germans Nov. 1918).
HANNUT NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Liege) (one, Nov. 1918).
HANRET COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Namur) (one, Nov. 1918).
HARMIGNIES CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (two, Aug. 1914; two, Nov. 1918).
HASSELT COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Limbourg) (one, buried by Germans with Germans, Portuguese and Russians, Nov. 1918).
HERINNES-LES-ENGHIEN CHURCHYARD (Brabant) (one, buried by Germans Oct. 1918).
JEMELLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Namur) (two, buried by Germans Nov. 1918).
LABLIAU COMMUNAL CEMETERY, MARCQ (Hainaut) (two R.F.C., Aug. 1914).
LA FLAMENGRIE CHURCHYARD (Nord) (two, Nov. 1918).
LANDENNE-LES-COUTHUIN CHURCHYARD (Liege) (one Canadian, Nov. 1918).
LAROCHE COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Luxembourg) (one, Dec. 1918).
LASNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY, LASNE-CHAPELLE ST. LAMBERT (Brabant) (one Canadian, April 1919).
LEERS-NORD COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (five, Nov. 1918).
LONGUEVILLE CHURCHYARD (Brabant) (one Canadian, Feb. 1919).
MAILLEN COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Namur) (one, Jan. 1919).
MARLOIE CHURCHYARD, WAHA (Luxembourg) (one, Nov. 1918).
MARQUAIN CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (three, Oct. 1918).
MORLANWELZ COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (four buried by Germans 1918; six buried by British Oct. 1918-Feb. 1919).
MOUSTIER-LES-FRASNES GERMAN CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one, buried by Germans Oct. 1918).
ODRIMONT CHURCHYARD, LIERNEUX (Liege) (one, Dec. 1918).
OLLIGNIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one, Dec. 1918).
PEISSANT COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one, buried by Germans Oct. 1918).
PIETREBAIS CHURCHYARD (Brabant) (one, Nov. 1918).
QUEVAUCAMPS COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (two, Nov. 1918 and Jan. 1919).
RAMEGNIES CHURCHYARD, RAMEGNIES-CHIN (Hainaut) (12 U.K. and two R.A.F., April 1917-Oct. 1918, originally buried in FROYENNES GERMAN CEMETERY, on the road from Tournai to Pont-A-Chin; 17 buried by British Oct. and Nov. 1918).
RANSART COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one, Dec. 1918).
REBECQ-ROGNON COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Brabant) (one, Feb. 1919).
RENDEUX-BAS CHURCHYARD, RENDEUX (Luxembourg) (one, Dec. 1918).
RONGY CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (two, Oct. and Nov. 1918).
RONGY PROTESTANT CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (eleven, Oct. and Nov. 1918).
ST. VITH COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Liege, formerly Rhine Province) (one, buried by Germans Oct. 1918).
SARLARDINGE CHURCHYARD (East Flanders) (one, Dec. 1918).
SENY COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Liege) (one, Dec. 1918).
SPIENNES CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (one U.K., two R.N.D., one Canadian, Nov. 1918).
THIELT COMMUNAL CEMETERY (West Flanders) (one, Oct. 1918).
THIMOUGIES CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (one, buried by Germans Oct. 1918).
TIRLEMONT COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Brabant) (two, buried by Germans Oct. 1918).
VILLE-SUR-HAINE CHURCHYARD (Hainaut) (one, Nov. 1918) buried originally near Ecluse No.2).
WAYAUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Hainaut) (one Indian, Feb. 1919).
The Allied extension now contains 689 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 34 of them unidentified. There are also 117 Russian burials, all of men who died as prisoners of war, and two Belgian war graves.
Almost all of the 52 Second World War burials in the extension date from May 1940 and the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary Force ahead of the German advance.
Total Burials: 873.
World War One Commonwealth Identified Burials: United Kingdom 611, Canada 30, Australia 5, South Africa 5, India 4, New Zealand 1. Total 656.
World War One Unidentified Burials: 34.
Other Nationalities: Russia 117, Belgium 2. Total 119.
World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 44.
World War Two Unidentified Casualties: 8.
The Allied Extension was designed by Charles Henry Holden and William Harrison Cowlishaw
Dedications
270045 Company Quartermaster Serjeant Philip Wolsey, 10th (Royal East Kent & West Kent Yeomanry Bn.) The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 8th November 1918, aged 29. Son of William Edward and Margaret Ethel Wolsey, of 19, Limes Rd., Folkestone. Born at South Shields.
Remembered by Rowena Bennett
Refugee children being cared for by a British soldier. Near Tournai, 26 October 1918.
33800 Private
George Glendower Ball (Known as Glendower)
7th Bn. Norfolk Regiment
7th March 1918, aged 30.
Plot I. F. 7.
Second Son of George and Mary Ann (nee Body) Ball; brother of William James, Margaret Millicent and Samuel Percival Ball. Resided at 2 Station Road, Swindon, Wiltshire.
Born on 7th March 1888 in Watchfield, Berkshire. Died: 7th March 1918 in Bavarian War Hospital, Tournai, Belgium. (His 30th birthday.) Commemorated on his parents’ gravestone in Radnor Street Cemetery, Swindon, and the War Memorial in Swindon’s Town Hall.
Photograph submitted by Duncan Glendower S. Ball, his grand-nephew.
George Glendower Ball (Known as Glendower)
7th Bn. Norfolk Regiment
7th March 1918, aged 30.
Plot I. F. 7.
Second Son of George and Mary Ann (nee Body) Ball; brother of William James, Margaret Millicent and Samuel Percival Ball. Resided at 2 Station Road, Swindon, Wiltshire.
Born on 7th March 1888 in Watchfield, Berkshire. Died: 7th March 1918 in Bavarian War Hospital, Tournai, Belgium. (His 30th birthday.) Commemorated on his parents’ gravestone in Radnor Street Cemetery, Swindon, and the War Memorial in Swindon’s Town Hall.
Photograph submitted by Duncan Glendower S. Ball, his grand-nephew.
Captain
William Stead Brayshay
45th Sqdrn. Royal Flying Corps.
6th April 1917, aged 29.
Plot II. J. 25
Previously served as a Private with 1st Birmingham Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Birmingham Pals) on enlisting in August 1914. Later served with the Army Service Corps. Gazetted as Captain 17th November 1914. Killed in action 6th April 1917. The following men died in the vicinity of Lille on that day: Edward James BLAKE & William Stead BRAYSHAY: Colin CAMPBELL & Donald EDWARDS: John Arthur MARSHALL & Francis TRUSCOTT. All three crews were in two-seater aircraft of No 45 Squadron RFC. Two of these losses were caused by air collisions during combat.
Picture and information courtesy of Bill Norton
William Stead Brayshay
45th Sqdrn. Royal Flying Corps.
6th April 1917, aged 29.
Plot II. J. 25
Previously served as a Private with 1st Birmingham Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Birmingham Pals) on enlisting in August 1914. Later served with the Army Service Corps. Gazetted as Captain 17th November 1914. Killed in action 6th April 1917. The following men died in the vicinity of Lille on that day: Edward James BLAKE & William Stead BRAYSHAY: Colin CAMPBELL & Donald EDWARDS: John Arthur MARSHALL & Francis TRUSCOTT. All three crews were in two-seater aircraft of No 45 Squadron RFC. Two of these losses were caused by air collisions during combat.
Picture and information courtesy of Bill Norton
Second Lieutenant
Colin St. George Campbell 45th Squadron Royal Flying Corps 6th April 1917, aged 33. Plot II. J. 1. Son of the late Lorne Colin Campbell, M.D., and Mary Stuart Davidson Campbell, of Toronto, Canada. Educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, and McGill University, Montreal. Graduate Mining Engineer. |
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1096069 Private
Ernest Clark 3rd Bn. Canadian Infantry 1st January 1918. Plot I. A. 5. |
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Lieutenant
James Drue Cook
107th Squadron
Royal Air Force
Plot II. J. 19.
Son of James and Elizabeth Cook, of 302, Evelyn Avenue, Toronto, Canada.
James Drue Cook
107th Squadron
Royal Air Force
Plot II. J. 19.
Son of James and Elizabeth Cook, of 302, Evelyn Avenue, Toronto, Canada.
815 Private
Arthur Cummings
1st Bn. Newfoundland Regiment
4th September 1917, aged 22.
Plot I. C. 7.
Inscription "Peace Perfect Peace With Loved Ones Far Away"
Son of Charles and Elizabeth Cummings, of Lower Island Cove, Conception Bay, Newfoundland.
Arthur Cummings
1st Bn. Newfoundland Regiment
4th September 1917, aged 22.
Plot I. C. 7.
Inscription "Peace Perfect Peace With Loved Ones Far Away"
Son of Charles and Elizabeth Cummings, of Lower Island Cove, Conception Bay, Newfoundland.
Men of the 55th Division attending fires in Tournai, 10 November 1918. © IWM Q 9672
Images in this gallery © Johan Pauwels
97426 Driver
Thomas Goodier
"A" Bty. 158th Bde. Royal Field Artillery
19th December 1918, aged 20.
Plot IV. F. 9.
Son of Mr and Mrs Goodier of 60 Hurtley Street, Burnley.
A weaver at Thistlethwaite's Mill prior to enlisting. Thomas was one of four brothers who served, one of whom, William, was crippled for life, another, Harry, was killed and his body was never identified after the war. The other serving brother, Allen, was wounded but survived.
Thomas joined the army in August 1914 at the age of 16, he went out in April 1915. Strangely, the newspaper claims that he was wounded after being shot through the forearm on November 27th 1918 and subsequently contracted flu and later died.
Quite how he was shot two weeks after the armistice is a mystery.
Thomas Goodier
"A" Bty. 158th Bde. Royal Field Artillery
19th December 1918, aged 20.
Plot IV. F. 9.
Son of Mr and Mrs Goodier of 60 Hurtley Street, Burnley.
A weaver at Thistlethwaite's Mill prior to enlisting. Thomas was one of four brothers who served, one of whom, William, was crippled for life, another, Harry, was killed and his body was never identified after the war. The other serving brother, Allen, was wounded but survived.
Thomas joined the army in August 1914 at the age of 16, he went out in April 1915. Strangely, the newspaper claims that he was wounded after being shot through the forearm on November 27th 1918 and subsequently contracted flu and later died.
Quite how he was shot two weeks after the armistice is a mystery.
139100 Sergeant
James Haxton 87th Bn. Canadian Infantry 22nd August 1917, aged 24. Plot I. B. 4. Inscription "He Lives With Us In Memory" Son of Andrew and Janet Haxton, of 79, Fountainbridge, Edinburgh. |
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3263 Private
Harold Hoole
32nd Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
29th December 1917, aged 26.
Plot I. A. 6.
Son of Thomas and Christina Hoole. Native of Smithfield, South Australia.
Studio portrait of 3263 Private (Pte) Harold Hoole, 32nd Battalion. A shop assistant from Smithfield, South Australia, prior to enlistment, he embarked with the 7th Reinforcements from Adelaide on 27 June 1916 aboard HMAT Malakuta (A57) for Devonport, England. After training in England he proceeded to France and joined his battalion on the Western Front near Montauban, France in late November 1916. Pte Hoole was reported missing in action near Bapaume on 9 December 1916 and was subsequently reported to be a prisoner of war. Pte Hoole died of illness while a prisoner of war. He was aged 26 years.
Harold Hoole
32nd Bn. Australian Infantry, A. I. F.
29th December 1917, aged 26.
Plot I. A. 6.
Son of Thomas and Christina Hoole. Native of Smithfield, South Australia.
Studio portrait of 3263 Private (Pte) Harold Hoole, 32nd Battalion. A shop assistant from Smithfield, South Australia, prior to enlistment, he embarked with the 7th Reinforcements from Adelaide on 27 June 1916 aboard HMAT Malakuta (A57) for Devonport, England. After training in England he proceeded to France and joined his battalion on the Western Front near Montauban, France in late November 1916. Pte Hoole was reported missing in action near Bapaume on 9 December 1916 and was subsequently reported to be a prisoner of war. Pte Hoole died of illness while a prisoner of war. He was aged 26 years.
Images in this gallery © Geerhard Joos
Second Lieutenant
Allan James Ferguson Ross
204th Squadron, Royal Air Force
27th October 1918, aged 19.
Plot I. E. 10.
Inscription "Greater Love Hath No Man Than This He Died For His Friends"
Son of William and Annie Christy Ross, of Calgary, Alberta. Born at Glammis, Ontario, Canada.
Allan James Ferguson Ross
204th Squadron, Royal Air Force
27th October 1918, aged 19.
Plot I. E. 10.
Inscription "Greater Love Hath No Man Than This He Died For His Friends"
Son of William and Annie Christy Ross, of Calgary, Alberta. Born at Glammis, Ontario, Canada.
887119 Private
James Craig Roulston
5th Bn. Canadian Infantry
21st September 1917, aged 36.
Plot I. F. 5.
Son of James Ephraim and Margaret Roulston; husband of Ethel Galena McKeen, of Springvale, Ontario.
James Craig Roulston
5th Bn. Canadian Infantry
21st September 1917, aged 36.
Plot I. F. 5.
Son of James Ephraim and Margaret Roulston; husband of Ethel Galena McKeen, of Springvale, Ontario.
31858 Private
Frederick Skidmore
1st/7th Bn. Cheshire Regiment, Formerly 210039 - Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
26th October 1918, aged 25.
Plot V. K. 6.
Son of Fred and Eliza Skidmore of Hindley Lancashire. Born 1893 in Hindley, Lancashire.
Picture courtesy of great niece, Lois Best
Frederick Skidmore
1st/7th Bn. Cheshire Regiment, Formerly 210039 - Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
26th October 1918, aged 25.
Plot V. K. 6.
Son of Fred and Eliza Skidmore of Hindley Lancashire. Born 1893 in Hindley, Lancashire.
Picture courtesy of great niece, Lois Best
48570 Rifleman
William Henry Skuse
1st/17th Bn. London Regiment
Killed in action at Froyennes, 8th November 1918.
Plot V. J. 2.
Originally buried in White Chateau Cemetery, Froyennes.
William Henry Skuse
1st/17th Bn. London Regiment
Killed in action at Froyennes, 8th November 1918.
Plot V. J. 2.
Originally buried in White Chateau Cemetery, Froyennes.
766500 Private
Robert George Stewart 20th Bn. Canadian Infantry 1st September 1917. Plot I. C. 4. |
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642885 Private
Stanley Charles Wilkinson
75th Bn. Canadian Infantry
13th September 1917.
Plot I. F. 1.
Stanley Charles Wilkinson
75th Bn. Canadian Infantry
13th September 1917.
Plot I. F. 1.
Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem
The first released British prisoners of war to reach Tournai in Belgium, 14 November 1918. British prisoners held in German-occupied zones were released at the Armistice often without food, shelter or adequate clothing. Although they were delighted to be free, many were suffering from hunger and exhaustion when they reached British forces. © IWM Q 9687
August 1951 - View of 1914/18 plot with Cross of Sacrifice and Russian wooden crosses.
Refugees in a church being cared for by the British Army. Near Tournai, 26 October 1918. © IWM Q 9624
