Royal Marine Light Infantry 8th October 1914

[Yorke Scarlett]

There is a casualty - Pte J W WHEELER PLY/6641 in Cement House Cemetery, Langemark, West Flanders, Belgium.

 

Can anyone enlighten me as to the doing of the RMLI around that date.

 

I wish to expand on the reasoning as to why Pte Wheeler has been re-interred in Langemark.

 

Thanks in advance

[horatio2]

Serving in Plymouth Battalion of the Royal Naval Division at the Defence of Antwerp. Fighting at Lier (Lierre) 4-7 October and then withdrawn towards Antwerp.

Two casualties (including Pte WHEELER) were removed from Schaerbeek Communal Cemetery to Cement House Cemetery in February 1966. Presumably a normal concentration of outlying burials by CWGC.

His original burial at Schaerbeek (Brussels), so remote from the scene of action, may indicate that he was found by the Germans at Antwerp and removed to Brussels. It is vanishingly improbable that his burial at Schaerbeek was by the British. WHEELER was one of  ten men of Plymouth Battalion kia between 5 and 8 October at Lier. Eight of these men are buried at Schoonselhof Cemetery, Antwerp. One is named on the Nieuport Memorial.

Edited 9 February by horatio2

[Yorke Scarlett]

Thanks for the speedy response.

 

I was at Schoonselhof late last year (not an easy place to find - but fascinating when I got there) reading the approximate date of others who are buried there.of the RMLI.

 

Thanks again

[Keith Woodland]

There is a grave of a member of The Royal Marine Light infantry in the Cemetry at Normanton, West Yorkshire. One of about 12 war graves in that Cemetry, easy to find its on Cemetry Road.