War Graves in UK-Yorkshire (1)

Those in red are now complete.

Cemeteries remaining in Yorkshire.

AIREBOROUGH (YEADON) CEMETERY
BARMBY-ON-THE-MOOR (ST. CATHERINE) CHURCHYARD
Y BRANDESBURTON (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
CATTERICK CEMETERY
DISHFORTH CEMETERY
DONCASTER (ROSE HILL) CEMETERY
DONCASTER HYDE PARK CEMETERY
Y DRIFFIELD CEMETERY
Y FULFORD CEMETERY
Y HALTEMPRICE (HESSLE) CEMETERY
HATFIELD (WOODHOUSE) CEMETERY
Y HOLME-UPON-SPALDING MOOR (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD
Y HULL WESTERN CEMETERY
Y LECONFIELD (ST. CATHERINE) CHURCHYARD
MOORTHORPE CEMETERY
NEWTON-UPON-OUSE (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD
POCKLINGTON BURIAL GROUND
SELBY CEMETERY
SUTTON (OR SUTTON-IN-HOLDERNESS) (ST. JAMES) CHURCHYARD



Thanks to Roger for completing:

Brandesburton
Driffield
Haltemprice
Holme - Upon - Spalding Moor (All Saints) Churchyard.

Cheers

 

I'm doing Leeds, Shipley and Horbury (Noted the one above) this week (Friday) if the weather is ok for Recce Mitch.

Anymore?

Andy

 

Anybody who ever gets to Sutton (St James), I would be grateful for a photo of Paterson Clarence Hughes' headstone.

This link shows where the headstone is situated.

ST JAMES, SUTTON ON HULL, EAST RIDING - WAR MEMORIAL - Flight Lieutenant Paterson Clarence Hughes DFC
Pat was credited with 14 downed enemy aircraft, plus other shared planes, making him the highest scoring Non-British Fighter Pilot in the Battle of Britain. One fact that came to light, a great deal later, was that Pat is also credited with shooting down a very well-known German airman indeed, none other than Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the famous "One That Got Away".
This was the German Luftwaffe prisoner who escaped from British POW camps several times, only to be recaptured every time. After an escapade in which he very nearly nicked a Spitfire to fly home in, and along with other notorious German escapees, von Werra was shipped off to Canada - our version of Colditz, I suppose - and finally made his successful escape from a moving train at night into the snow and thence to cross the frozen St Lawrence River in a stolen rowing boat to freedom in the US . . just a few months before America came into the war. He was repatriated to Germany to continue his flying career, only to lose his life in Russia on the Eastern Front.

 

I got H Middleton KOSB and the other chap below

 

W.F. Hall Royal Signals

 

P/O Gribble
Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery.

SOURCE : Dedicated to the crew of Halifax III HX296 from 466 Squadron.

 

F/O Watson
Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery.


P/O A J Damm RAAF
SOURCE : Dedicated to the crew of Halifax III LW172 from 466 Squadron.

 

P/O Shelton, F/S Johnson and F/S Dixon are buried in Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery
Dedicated to the crew of Halifax III NR179 from 466 Squadron.

 

Hi Phil,

Thank you for the photos and details.

 

If anyone can help with the following cemeteries, please PM me

UK – YORKSHIRE
AIREBOROUGH (GUISELEY) CEMETERY
BENTLEY-WITH-ARKSEY NEW CEMETERY
COTTINGHAM CEMETERY
KIRKBY WHARFE (ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST) CHURCHYARD EXTENSION
LEEDS (COTTINGLEY HALL) CEMETERY
LEEDS (HOLBECK) CEMETERY
LEEDS (LAWNS WOOD) CEMETERY
REDCAR CEMETERY
SHARLSTON (ST. LUKE) CHURCHYARD EXTENSION

 

Not to be put off by the disappointing results last year trying to find a few chaps in Leeds cemeteries for members on this forum (It has been bugging me ever since).

I have recently contacted Leeds Council, who have just confirmed that the maps to all their cemeteries are in the post, and I've booked two weeks off work from next week so I'm going out armed with my camera, CWGC ROH's and Cemetery Maps to hopefully get all the CWGC headstones from WW1, WW2 and all 44 Public Memorials in Leeds.

Watch this space..........

 

Not to be put off by the disappointing results last year trying to find a few chaps in Leeds cemeteries for members on this forum (It has been bugging me ever since).

I have recently contacted Leeds Council, who have just confirmed that the maps to all their cemeteries are in the post, and I've booked two weeks off work from next week so I'm going out armed with my camera, CWGC ROH's and Cemetery Maps to hopefully get all the CWGC headstones from WW1, WW2 and all 44 Public Memorials in Leeds.

Watch this space..........

Ha ha!Yu've got the bug too!

 

Additional Churchyards/Cemeteries/names added if anyone can assist

Andy