stiletto_33853 Posted 18 March , 2007 Share Posted 18 March , 2007 Orange Trench Cemetery is north of the village to the west of the road to Fampoux down a 500 metre track. Orange Hill and Orange Trench were features of the country south of the River Scarpe, through which Commonwealth forces fought their way in April 1917, during the Battle of Arras, and agin in August 1918. Orange Trench Cemetery was made after the fighting of 9 - 11 April 1917, when the 12th, 15th and 37th Divisions carried Monchy-Le-Preux and the country between it and the Scarpe. The graves are all of April and May 1917. Orange Trench Cemetery contains 118 burials and commemorations of the First World War. Exactly half of the burials are unidentified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiletto_33853 Posted 18 March , 2007 Author Share Posted 18 March , 2007 27652 Private A.E. Gibbins Somerset Light Infantry 11th April 1917 Age 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiletto_33853 Posted 18 March , 2007 Author Share Posted 18 March , 2007 41636 Private J. Glencorse Highland Light Infantry 11th April 1917 Age 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiletto_33853 Posted 18 March , 2007 Author Share Posted 18 March , 2007 29368 Private W. Turner West Yorkshire Regiment 14th April 1917 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted 18 March , 2007 Share Posted 18 March , 2007 If anyone else is interested I have the following grave photos ORANGE TRENCH CEMETERY name, date, unit, home KORTRIGHT Mounteney Roesvelt William 21/05/1917 1st Essex Ingatestone CHAWNER Meredith Andre 21/05/1917 2nd Essex Alton, Hants GIBBINS A E 11/04/1917 8th Somerset L I Cheltenham TYRIE T 11/04/1917 10/11th HLI Aberdeen MITCHELL Alexander H 11/04/1917 6th Q O C Highlanders ? EASTWOOD Ernest 11/04/1917 10/11th HLI York CAMPBELL Robert 11/04/1917 6th Q O C Highlanders Troon HOOPER A 11/04/1917 8th Somerset L I ? GARVIE John A 11/04/1917 6/7th R S Fusiliers Edinburgh TOLMIE Alexander 11/04/1917 6th Q O C Highlanders Partick RITCHIE George 11/04/1917 6/7th R S Fusiliers Linlithgow HOSIE Peter M 11/04/1917 6/7th R S Fusiliers Carnoustie BARRRACLOUGH William 11/04/1917 6/7th R S Fusiliers Skipton McAULEY Hugh 11/04/1917 10/11th HLI Bathgate McKNIGHT Joseph 11/04/1917 6th Q O C Highlanders Barony, Glasgow CARMICHAEL Andrew Gemmell 11/04/1917 6th Q O C Highlanders ? RAVEY Hugh 11/04/1917 6th Q O C Highlanders Boness McGILL Thomas 11/04/1917 6th Q O C Highlanders Edinburgh FLOOD James 11/04/1917 6th Q O C Highlanders Dundee SHAND John 11/04/1917 6th Q O C Highlanders Glasgow CARTER Walter James 20/05/1917 1st Essex Woodford Bridge LORIMER William 11/04/1917 6/7th R S Fusiliers Glasgow BLUNSON H 10/04/1917 13th R Fusiliers ? ANDERSON William 11/04/1917 6/7th R S Fusiliers Glasgow ALLEN Alexander 11/04/1917 6/7th R S Fusiliers Ardrossan MILNE David C 09/04/1917 7/8th K O S B Dundee GRANT Noel 25/05/1917 156th Brigade RFA Caterham HUTCHINSON William John 25/05/1917 88th Co MGC Port Talbot HALLS Godfrey Henry 25/05/1917 88th Co MGC Safron Walden GRIEVE Robert Gilchrist 25/05/1917 88th Co MGC Edinburgh HALLIDAY Robert 11/04/1917 6th Q O C Highlanders Cambusnethan McDONALD Murdo 11/04/1917 6th Q O C Highlanders Barras WARNER B O 19/05/1917 1st Essex ? McLEAN Robert 11/04/1917 6th Q O C Highlanders Ayr WILLEY Stephen Ambrose 10/04/1917 8th Licolnshires North Somercotes Aye Malcolm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiletto_33853 Posted 9 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 9 April , 2007 Lieutenant M.C.W. Kortright Essex Regiment 21st May 1917 Age 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiletto_33853 Posted 9 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 9 April , 2007 Mounteney Coesvelt William Kortright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiletto_33853 Posted 9 April , 2007 Author Share Posted 9 April , 2007 Harrow Memorials of The Great War Volume 5 Lieutenant M.C.W. Kortright Essex Regiment Only son of William Kortright, of Ingatestone, Essex, and of Mrs. Kortright. Cricket XI, 1912. Lieutenant Kortright joined the 3rd Battalion Essex Regiment on the outbreak of the War, and subsequently went to the R.M.C., Sandhurst. On passing out he obtained a Commission in the 1st Essex Regiment, in July, 1915. The following August he was sent to Gallipoli, being transferred to the Western Front in May, 1916. He was killed in action at Monchy-le-Preux on 21st May, 1917. Colonel Sir George Stirling, commanding 1st Essex Regiment, wrote to his father:- "It is with the deepest regret of his comrades, both Officers and men, that I write to inform you of the death of your son, Lieutenant M.C.W. Kortright. He was a very smart and efficient Officer, and, though I have only very recently taken command of this Battalion, I had already formed a very high opinion of him." Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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