Potitze Cemetery?

[PaulC78]

I was just going through some photos and found the following headstone inscription... Harold Cobham is commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial but according to his parents headstone at Mawdesley he was interred at "Potitze Cemetery". A google search hasn't helped so I have no idea where this might be, does anyone else have any ideas?

 

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1629136/COBHAM, HAROLD/

 

[PRC]

Possibly meant to be Potijze ?

 

Cheers,

Peter

[PaulC78]

Yep, that would make sense. Possibly buried as a unknown then, but it could be one of several cemeteries in that area.

 

I did find this account of his death in the Wigan Observer:

 

[PRC]

1 hour ago, PaulC78 said:

Possibly buried as a unknown then, but it could be one of several cemeteries in that area.

 

There seems to be four cemeteries in and around Potijze Chateau, an area which seems to have been subject to havy shelling through-out much of the war according to the history section of each on the CWGC Cemetery webpages. I couldn't see references in the write ups to graves lost to shellfire or markers with the "Known to buried in" wording, but doesn't mean they don't exist.

POTIJZE CHATEAU LAWN CEMETERY

https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/15701/

POTIJZE CHATEAU GROUNDS CEMETERY

https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/2000020/

POTIJZE CHATEAU WOOD CEMETERY

https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/15702/

POTIJZE BURIAL GROUND CEMETERY

https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/15700/

 

Cheers,

Peter