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YORK CEMETERY

​Haspres
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Nord

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.25024, Longitude: 3.40539

York Cemetery, Haspres

​Location Information

Haspres is a village about 15 kilometres north-east of Cambrai and about the same distance south-west of Valenciennes. York Cemetery is situated beside a track leading south-west from Haspres towards Naves. 


Visiting Information

York Cemetery should not be confused with Haspres Coppice Cemetery which lies to the south of the village on the west side of the road to Villers en Cauchies.


Historical Information

The village of Haspres was taken after severe fighting, with the help of tanks, on 20 October 1918. 

York Cemetery was made at the end of October 1918 by the 1st/5th York and Lancaster Regiment and other units of the 49th (West Riding) Division. 

The cemetery contains 137 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 10 German graves.

​The cemetery was designed by William Harrison Cowlishaw
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Total Burials: 147.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 123, Germany 7. Total 130.

Unidentified Casualties:  Total 17.
York Cemetery, Haspres
York Cemetery, Haspres
York Cemetery, Haspres
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17388 Private
Oliver James
1st/4th Bn. 
York and Lancaster Regiment
13th October 1918, aged 31.
Row C. 11.

Son of Abraham and the late Lucy Annie James, of Newbold, Chesterfield; husband of Sarah Ann James, of 10, Balfour Rd., New Village, Bentley, Doncaster.



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58236 Private
John Gill Lowcock
1st/4th Bn. 
York and Lancaster Regiment
13th October 1918, aged 28.
Row E. 1.

Husband of Margaret Lowcock, of 38, Rowland St., Skipton, Yorks.



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47193 Private
Harry Craven Snaith
1st/5th Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment
13th October 1918, aged 21.
Row B. 19.
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Son of John Rigby Snaith and Maria Snaith, of 5, Vale Lane, Lees, Keighley, Yorks.

Picture courtesy of great nephew, Adrian Snaith.

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Somme Sector. Main street in front of gun-park in school courtyard. Haspres, November 1916. © IWM (Q 52893)

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