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Remembered Today:

Neuville Vitasse Road cemetery


Michelle Young

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taken 90 years after the battle

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  • 16 years later...

Interested in this very location as 11 members of the 2nd Bn Yorks are buried there out of the 30 O/R listed as killed in action on 9th April 1917. My Great Grand Uncle Pte George Edwin Speight 28992 is one of the 12 missing of that number, commemorated on the Arras memorial Bay 5. 7 others are buried elsewhere (some exhumed and relocated) at Wancourt, Bucquoy, Achicourt Rd and Etaples. So far I have found 4 unknown casualties of the same battalion in the IWGC burial records at these locations and London Rd Cemetery, where the only officer listed in the war diary of the battalion  2nd Lieu Rapp is buried  alongside 3 unknown Yorks. 

Rest In Peace Gentlemen

Pte TS Brown 39064

Pte JR Clark 36280

Cpl E Jones 36040

Pte J Longbottom 30671

Pte TW Makepeace 39082

Pte JJ McDougall 38852

Pte R Miller 30684

Pte J Mitton 30383

Pte HV Proctor 33439

Pte J Stanfield 13356

Sgt A Wilkinson 7572

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I visit this cemetery as often as I can, as I remember the men of the 2nd Btn Wiltshire Regiment.

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