Soldier's brothers named on his grave

[Tom Morgan]

In Euston Road Cemetery near Colincamps the other day, I saw a soldier's grave which, apart from the soldier's details, also has details of two other soldiers with the same surname, one a brother and the other probably a brother, I think. The two additional soldiers are both commemorated on Memorials to the Missing elsewhere. Has anyone ever seen another example of this?

Tom

[MartinWills]

Yes, but for the life of me I can't remember where!

[Marco]

Tom,

What you saw was:

Rifleman J.H. Coomber. King's Royal Rife Corps

died 16 November 1916, age 23

Euston Road Cemetery

Also in memory of

232979 Pte. W.P. Coomber

London Regiment

3rd May 1917 and

656055 Pte. A.E. Coomber

London Regiment

22nd August 1918.

And there is:

Bennefield, J.P. Lt. Royal FieldArtillery “and also to 2nd Lt. M.V. Bennefield”

Bland, F. Priv. Royal Scots “Also in memory of Pte. J.H. Bland....”

Booth, G. Priv. Royal Warwick. Reg. “also in loving memory of Thomas Booth”

Calder, C.S. Priv. London Scot. “Also in memory of his brother...”

Hawdon, C. 2nd Lt. Yorkshire Reg. “Also to the memory of his two brothers”

Hounsome, T.E. Priv. "also to priv. A. Hounsome, KIA"

Williams, R.T. Priv. The King’s Liverpool Reg. “also in memory of pte. C. Williams”

Wilson, A.P. Priv. 13th Kensington Bn. L. Reg. “also in memory of his brother”

Just several I bumped into. Not really special therefore.

Regards,

Marco

[Tom Morgan]

Thanks for your replies, Martin and Marco.

Marco - I visit lots of cemeteries (but not as many as you!!) and this was the first example I had seen. Thanks for the details about the others.

Tom

[Muerrisch]

2Lt WG Fletcher RWF has his brother Regie [sic] 2Lt RFA on his CWGC stone at Bois Grenier. The father was a famous Oxford history don, WG was a King's scholar at Eton, and was Frank Richards's hero. WG's funeral was attended voluntarily by the whole battalion.

I could bore for England on WG.

[Jonathan Saunders]

Finding myself driving around the Kent coast yesterday I stopped at a couple of cemeteries in Dover - plenty of CWGC headstones to look at. Now although it was only yesterday I cant remember the name, but one of the graves contained two soldiers with the same surname - definitely must have been related and probably brothers. I have a photo to download at home ...