Ypres, 2022. 20th July
Ypres, 2022. 20th July

Ypres, 2022. 20th July

My school has a long history and connection with the First World War. Many former pupils fought during the conflict and nineteen of them paid the ultimate sacrifice between 1915 and 1918.

Out of the nineteen, four are buried or remembered in the Middle East or Turkey. One is buried in the UK. The remaining fourteen are buried or remembered in Europe. Two of these I can not trace their resting places yet, and one is St Germain-Du-Mont which is over 300 miles from Ypres. This leaves eleven which I will trace and photo this week. The current Teachers and Pupils will be able to see the final resting places of former fellow students.

Here are details and pictures of eight former pupils. I will post the remaining three over the weekend.

Menin Gate. More than 54,000 names of soldiers whose graves are not know.
Sheffield Digby Kissane Rogers. Lieutenant Royal Fusiliers. Killed 14th June 1915. Body never found and remembered on Panel 6 of the Menin Gate.
Private Henry Edward Percy. Hon. Artillery Company. Killed 25th February 1915 aged 21. Grave is located in Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery. Location H 27.
Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery.
Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery.
Captain Harry William Hay Creasy. Essex Regiment. Killed 13th June 1916. Grave is located in Essex Farm Cemetery. Location II R 16.
Essex Farm Cemetery.
Second Lieutenant William Charles Carbonell. South Staffordshire Regiment. Killed 1st September 1916 aged 24. Grave is in La Neuville British Cemetery. Location II B 28.
La Neuville British Cemetery.
La Neuville British Cemetery.
Second Lieutenant John Ryder Clark. Royal Garrison Artillery. Killed 20th October 1917 aged 19. Grave is in Ruisseau Farm Cemetery. Location B 9.
Ruisseau Farm Cemetery.
Second Lieutenant Charles Layton Green. 53rd Sqdn Royal Flying Corps. Killed 9th June 1917. Grave is in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension.
Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension.
Second Lieutenant lawrence Castell Stanley Tatham. 5th Sqdn Royal Flying Corps. Killed 10th January 1918. Grave is in Duisans British Cemetery. Location V E 22.
Duisans British Cemetery.
Duisans British Cemetery.
Captain John Rodgers. King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Killed 8th March 1918 aged 39. Grave is in Canada Farm Cemetery. Location III G 13.
Canada Farm Cemetery.

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