Pte John Richard Rawlinson 12 Kings Liverpool Regt

[Will O'Brien]

As per CWGC

Name: RAWLINSON, JOHN RICHARD

Initials: J R

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment: The King's (Liverpool Regiment)

Unit Text: 12th Bn.

Age: 19

Date of Death: 27/02/1916

Service No: 14642

Additional information: Son of John and Sarah Jane Rawlinson, of 12, Bolney St., New Springs, Wigan, Lancs. Native of Plymouth.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: I. B. 6.

Cemetery: BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY

[Will O'Brien]

& the cemetery info

Cemetery: BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY

Country: Belgium

Locality: Ieper, West-Vlaanderen

Visiting Information: Wheelchair access possible via main entrance. For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our Enquiries Section on telephone number 01628 507200

Location Information: The Cemetery is located on the Diksmuidseweg road (N369) in the direction of Boezinge. From Ieper station turn left into M.Fochlaan and go to the roundabout, turn right and go to the next roundabout. Here turn left and drive to the next roundabout, where you should turn right into Oude Veurnestraat. Take the second turning on the left, which is the Diksmuidseweg and carry on under the motorway bridge and the cemetery is another 300 metres on the left hand side of the road. N.B. Bard Cottage Cemetery is the first cemetery on the left, the second being Talana Farm Cemetery.

Historical Information: For much of the First World war, the village of Boesinghe (now Boezinge) directly faced the German line across the Yser canal. Bard Cottage was a house a little set back from the line, close to a bridge called Bard's Causeway, and the cemetery was made nearby in a sheltered position under a high bank. Burials were made between June 1915 and October 1918 and they reflect the presence of the 49th (West Riding), the 38th (Welsh) and other infantry divisions in the northern sectors of the Ypres Salient, as well as the advance of artillery to the area in the autumn of 1917. After the Armistice, 46 graves were brought in from the immediate area, including 32 from Marengo Farm Cemetery a few hundred metres to the south. There are now 1,639 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 39 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate three casualties known to be buried among them. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

No. of Identified Casualties: 1603