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Norfolk Cemetery is on the East side
of the road to Becourt, further north than Dartmoor Cemetery. It was
begun by the 1st Norfolks in August 1915, and used by other units (including
the 8th Norfolks) until August, 1916. After the Armistice it was nearly
doubled in size by the concentration into Plot I, Row D, and Plot II
of 268 graves from the battlefields near by.
The Cemetery covers an area of 3,037
square yards; and it contains the graves of 407 soldiers from the United
Kingdom, nine from Australia, three from South Africa, two from Canada,
one from New Zealand, one from India and 126 whose unit in our forces
is not known. The unnamed graves (almost all of them concentrated) number
226.
Number of burials by Unit
| Royal
Engineers |
37
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|
Queen's
- Royal West Surrey Regt. |
30
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| East Yorkshire Regt.
|
26
|
|
Border Regt. |
22
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| East Surrey Regt.
|
18
|
|
Norfolk Regt. |
17
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| Somerset Light Infantry |
17
|
|
King's Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry |
16
|
| Royal
Field Artillery |
16
|
|
Gordon
Highlanders |
12
|
| Royal Garison Artillery |
9
|
|
York & Lancaster
Regt. |
8
|
| Middlesex Regt. |
7
|
|
Lincolnshire Regt.
|
6
|
| Durham Light Infantry |
6
|
|
Northumberland Fusiliers |
6
|
| Green Howards - Yorkshire
Regt. |
6
|
|
West Yorkshire Regt. |
5
|
| Australian burials
|
5
|
|
Cheshire Regt. |
4
|
| Machine Gun Corps
- Infantry |
4
|
|
Buffs - East Kent
Regt. |
4
|
| Royal
West Kent - Queen's Own |
3
|
|
Royal
Berkshire Regt. |
3
|
| Loyal
North Lancashire Regt. |
3
|
|
Royal
Warwickshire Regt. |
3
|
| 23rd Bn. London Regt. |
2
|
|
South Lancashire Regt.
|
2
|
| Essex Regt. |
2
|
|
Royal Army Service
Corps |
2
|
| Royal
Fusiliers - City of London Regt. |
2
|
|
Lancashire
Fusiliers |
2
|
| 21st Bn. London Regt.
- First Surrey Rifles |
1
|
|
22nd Bn. London Regt.
- The Queen's |
1
|
| Manchester Regt. |
1
|
|
9th Hodson's Horse |
1
|
| Army Cyclist Corps
|
1
|
|
Worcestershire Regt. |
1
|
| Welsh Regt. |
1
|
|
Suffolk Regt. |
1
|
| Gloucestershire Regt.
|
1
|
|
South Staffordshire
Regt. |
1
|
| King's Own Scottish
Borderers |
1
|
|
Sherwood Foresters
- Notts. & Derbys. Regt. |
1
|
| 14th Bn. London Regt.
- London Scottish |
1
|
|
King's Royal Rifle
Corps |
1
|
| Royal
Scots - Lothian Regt. |
1
|
|
Royal
Scots Fusiliers |
1
|
| Grenadier Guards |
1
|
|
Highland Light Infantry |
1
|
| Canadian burials |
1
|
|
|
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| Identified burials
|
324
|
|
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| Unidentified UK
burials: |
92
|
|
|
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| Australian Unknowns |
5
|
|
|
|
| Canadian Unknowns |
1
|
|
|
|
| New Zealand Unknown |
1
|
|
|
|
| Wholly Unknown |
126
|
|
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| Total Unidentified
burials |
225
|
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| Total burials |
549
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Those having awards in this cemetery
Lt. Wolfred Reeve Cloutman, Twice mentioned in Despatches. 178th
Coy. Royal Engineers. Killed 21st Aug. 1915 in rescuing a Sgt. whom
he carried on his shoulder 45 feet up a ladder from the bottom of a
mine. As soon as the Sgt. was lifted off, this officer, overcome with
foul gas, fell to the bottom. He was 25 and born at Wealdstone, Harrow,
Middlesex. 1.A.14
Sgt. Andrew Lees Fenwick D.C.M., 8th Bn. Somerset Light Infantry.
Killed in action 15th May 1916 aged 21. Native of
South Newsham, Northumberland., 1.A.52.
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| Major Stewart Walter
Loudoun-Shand V.C., 10th Bn. Yorkshire Regt. The Green Howards.
Died 1st July 1916 aged 36. An extract from the London Gazette No.
29740 dated 8th Sept. 1916 records the following:- "For most
conspicuous bravery. When his company attempted to climb over the
parapet to attack the enemy's trenches, they were met by very fierce
machine gun fire, which temporarily stopped their progress. Maj.
Loudoun-Shand leapt on the parapet, helped the men over it, and
encouraged them in every way until fell mortally wounded. Even then
he insisted on being propped up in the trench, and went on encouraging
the non-commissioned officers and men until he died" 1.C.77 |
Lt.-Col. Colmer William Donald Lynch D.S.O., 9th Bn. King's Own
Yorkshire Light Infantry. Killed in action 1st July 1916 aged 35. Son
of Maj.-Gen. William Wiltshire Lynch, C.B. 1.B.87
Cpl. Daniel McCarthy M.M., Royal Garrison Artillery, attd. "Y"
21st Trench Mortar Bty. Died 26th June 1916 aged 45. 1.C.68
Lce. Cpl. George Prout M.M., "A" Coy. 8th Bn. Somerset
Light Infantry. Died 1st July 1916 aged 25. 1.C.81
Others buried in this cemetery
Pte. William Arthur Cook, 8th Bn. Norfolk Regt. Killed in action
23rd Nov. 1915 aged 30. Eldest of five brothers who served, two of whom
fell.
Sgt. F. C. Field, 10th Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
Killed in action 3rd June 1916 aged 34. Also served in the South African
Campaign. 1.C.59
Cpl. Horace Frost, 1st Bn. Canadian Machine Gun Corps. Died 10th
Aug. 1918 aged 22. Lived in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., before enlisting
in the Canadian army. Native of New Mills, Derbyshire, England.
2nd Lt. Marlborough Thorne, "D" Coy. 8th Bn. East Surrey
Regt. Killed in action 27th Sept. 1915 aged 20. Educated at The Hazard,
Sheringham, Norfolk and at Haileybury College. Enlisted in 90th Winnipeg
Rifles, First Canadian Contingent. 1.B.13
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