ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Etaples
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.
During the First World War, the area around Etaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern or the southern battlefields. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand dunes and the hospitals, which included eleven general, one stationary, four Red Cross hospitals and a convalescent depot, could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. convalescent depot remained. The cemetery contains 10,771 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, the earliest dating from May 1915. 35 of these burials are unidentified. Hospitals were again stationed at Etaples during the Second World War and the cemetery was used for burials from January 1940 until the evacuation at the end of May 1940. After the war, a number of graves were brought into the cemetery from other French burial grounds. Of the 119 Second World War burials, 38 are unidentified. Etaples Military Cemetery also contains 662 Non Commonwealth burials, mainly German, including 6 unidentified. There are also now 5 Non World War service burials here. The cemetery, the largest Commission cemetery in France, was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
Victoria Cross: Major Douglas Reynolds, VC, 83rd Bde. Royal Field Artillery, died 23/02/1916 and buried in plot I. A. 20.
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Casualty Details: UK 8819, Canada 1145, Australia 464, New Zealand 260, South Africa 68, India 17, Total Burials: 10773
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303254 Rifleman Stephen Hugh Densham 5th Bn. London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) Died of wounds 10/12/1917, received near Arras on 02/12/1917. Aged 21. Plot XXX1. C. 25A. Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lane Densham. Native of Croydon, Surrey.
302391 Serjeant Frank Thomas Libby, MM 5th Bn. London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) Posted to 1st/28th Bn. Artists' Rifles. Died of wounds 19/04/1918, received at Mailly-Maillet 02/04/1918. Son of John and Emily Harriet Libby, of Croydon, Surrey. Plot XXIX. H. 3. The Military Medal was awarded for conspicuous Bravery at Passchendaele, 20/09/1917.
233526 Driver Albert Ernest Wills "D" Battery, 311th Bde. Royal Field Artillery Died of wounds received at Ypres on 05/11/1917 at 18th Chicago (USA) Gen Hospital, Camiers 11/11/1917. Aged 43. Son of William Urbane Wills (Architect) and Louisa Ann Wills, late of St. John'S, Newfoundland, and 11, Gerald Rd., Bournemouth; husband of Annie Wills, of 217, Whitehorse Lane, South Norwood. Born at Bridlington, Yorks. Was in business for many years at Norwood, London. Plot XXX. K. 24A.
13509 Corporal Andrew Cunninghame Frew "C" Coy. 6th (S) Bn. Cameron Highlanders Died 30/04/1917 of gunshot wounds received 14/04/1917, aged 21. Son of Francis Frew and Jessie Jaffray Paterson Frew. Native of Irvine, Ayrshire. Plot XVIII. E. 2
Picture courtesy of his great niece, Barbara Martin.
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31833 Private
George Henry Crumpen
Known as Harry.
6th Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment
03/10/1918, aged 36.
Son of James and Sarah Ann Crumpen, of Great Totham, Essex; husband of M. Crumpen, of "Westholm," Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Witham, Essex. Native of Great Totham,.
Plot LXVIII. G. 21.
Picture courtesy of Bob and Sheryl Crumpen, Harry is Bob's grandfather
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Images courtesy of his daughter Margaret Jarvis |
G/11229 Private Ophir Alfred Jarvis 7th Bn. The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 30/11/1916, aged 36. Husband of Selina F. Jarvis, of 9, Cranworth Rd., Hadleigh, Suffolk. Father of Evelyn and Margaret. Plot XX. D. 6A. |
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138211 Private
George R. Lawson
3rd Bn. Canadian Pioneers
04/10/1916, aged 23.
Died of Gun Shot Wounds received in the vicinity of Regina Trench
300338 Lance Corporal
Donald MacIntyre
8th Bn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
07/12/1918, aged 22.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. McIntyre, of 77, Laroch, Ballachulish, Argyllshire.
Plot XLVII. B. 10.
The death of Lance-Corporal Donald MacIntyre, aged 22 years, youngest son of Mr. D. MacIntyre and Mrs MacIntyre, 77 Laroch , Ballachulish , took place on 7th December at 20 General Hospital, Dannes, Carmier, France, from pneumonia. He mobilised with the 8th Argylls (Territorials) at the outbreak of War and proceeded to France in May, 1915. He was severely gassed in 1916, and wounded in 1918, and was admitted into hospital on 14th November, suffering from broncho-pneumonia from which he succumbed. He was one of the youngest members of F (Ballachulish) Company, who full of martial spirit, left their Highland home in Glencoe, but of whom many have been left on the stricken fields of France. He was in all the engagements of his gallant regiment throughout the War. He was held in great esteem by all who knew him. He was a general favourite with all who came in contact with him and the news of his death at an early age, after having passed through the dangers of the great war and at its close of hostilities, has been received with much regret by his many friends and acquaintances. His sister, Miss MacIntyre, was with him for ten days until the end. He was interred at Etaples, France. Much sympathy has been expressed for his parents and relatives in their great loss. His brother is Shoeing Smith John MacIntyre, M.M., awarded the medal for bravery in action while serving in France with the Argylls.
Oban Times
December, 1918.
Picture and text courtesy of Allan MacIntyre grand nephew of this soldier
265490 Lance Corporal
Arthur Sydney Lennox Hay
1st/6th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
04/04/1918, aged 32.
Son of John Walker Hay and Martha Jane Hay, of Florida Villa, Duff Avenue, Elgin, Morayshire.
Plot XXXIII. D. 16.
Picture courtesy of Frederic J. Gannon
35344 Private
John Norman Leach
11th Bn. Border Regiment
31/05/1918, aged 19.
Son of Fred and Julia Leach, of 81, Alexandra Rd., Morecambe, Lancs.
"Remembered proudly by Janet, Helen, Evie & Noah."
Picture courtesy of Helen Westwood, great niece
461348 Corporal
Wilber James Flynn
MM & Bar
8th Bn. Canadian Infantry
(Manitoba Regiment)
Died of Pneumonia 04/11/1918, aged 25.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Flynn, of Hanover, Ontario.
Plot XLIX. B. 3
"Remembered with honour" by Mary Lou Dunn (nee Flynn)
43249 Private
John Wardrope
20th (Tyneside Scottish) Bn.
Northumberland Fusiliers
19/04/1917.
Husband of Alice Wardrope of Newcastle upon Tyne. Father of Lucy.
Plot XIX. D. 5.
Picture courtesy of Bob Black
615668 Private
George Henry Chapman
1st/19th Bn. London Regiment
05/12/1917, aged 29.
Plot XXXI. A. 8A.
Son of Mr and Mrs S Chapman, of Carlisle;
husband of
Ethel Jane Chapman, of 87, Suffolk St., Poplar, London.
Picture courtesy of Tony Upton
3/8081 Corporal
Robert Russell
1st Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers
17/12/1916, aged 20.
Son of Mrs Russell of 118 Percy Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Plot XX. H. 9A.
Picture courtesy of great nephew, Peter Johnson
305088 Private
Samuel Henry Pendleton
6th Bn. Sherwood Foresters
(Notts and Derby Regiment)
28/03/1918, aged 24.
Son of Samuel Hy. Pendleton and Eliza E. Pendleton, of Bulwell; husband of A. Pendleton, of 29, Ockerby St., Bulwell, Nottingham.
Plot XXI. K. 10.
Shot in the back whilst carrying a wounded comrade off the battlefield.
Picture courtesy of Tony Henson
46843 Private
Dougald Graham
1st Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers
12/04/1918, aged 22.
Son of Mr and Mrs Peter and Mary Graham, of 45 Calder Street, Motherwell, Lanarkshire. Dougald had a brother John was killed in action.
Plot XXXIII. G. 10.
Picture courtesy of Joe O'Raw
S/5122 Private
William Easton
8th/10th Bn. Gordon Highlanders
04/07/1916, aged 20.
Son of Henry and Mary Easton, of 91, Albert Buildings, Burnbank, Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
Plot II. A. 56.
710185 Private
Gordon Ottis Stillwell
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion.
17/04/1917, aged 21.
Son of Charles and Mary Stilwell, of Waterborough, Queen's Co., New Brunswick.
Plot XIX. A. 7.
Pte Gordon Ottis Stilwell, aged 21, was the ninth of 10 boys of Charles and Mary (Ferris) Stilwell of Waterborough, NB, Canada. He worked as a mill man before, along with his younger brother Blair, joined the army in April 1916. He was killed during the Battle of Vimy Ridge on 17 April 1917. His brother also fought at Vimy, and lost 3 fingers due to sniper fire in the same battle. Blair named his son in memory of his brother.
Picture courtesy of Susan Northrup
TS/3016 Corporal Saddler
Frederick Wall
4th Coy. 8th Div. Train
Army Service Corps
07/11/1918, aged 40.
Plot XLIX. E. 8.
The Western Gazette 29 November 1918:
Mrs F Wall, of 108 Park Street, Yeovil, received the sad news on 11th November, that her husband Corporal Frederick Wall, of the A.S.C., was taken to hospital suffering from Bronchial pneumonia on 5th, and died on the 7th at the 7th Canadian General Hospital, France, and was buried with full military honours in a cemetary at Etaples. Corpl. Wall, who joined up at the outbreak of war had been in France for four years, and in a letter to Mrs Wall his captain says, "I should like to tell you what a great loss it has been to us all, as your husband was one of the most popular men in the Company. Since I have had the honour to command this Company, I always found him a good, willing and cheerful worker. On many trying occasions that we have all been through together, he has always set a splendid example to all of us in showing absolute fearlessness in the face of danger, and by doing so has rendered very valuable service in helping the Company out of many tight corners." Mrs Wall has also received two letters from the matron and nurse at the hospital, and a message of sympathy from the King and Queen. The deceased leaves a widow and two children, for whom much sympathy is felt. Mrs Wall wishes to thank the very kind friends who have expressed sympathy with her in her sad bereavement.
Picture courtesy of granddaughter Cassandra Pomeroy
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