Memorials
location and historical information
ANDREW
O'BEIRNE
Second
Engineer
S.S. "Conningbeg" (Glasgow), Mercantile Marine
who died on
Tuesday, 18th December 1917. Age 31.
Son of Mary O'Beirne, of 9 Canada St., Waterford.
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
The Tower Hill Memorial stands on the south side of the garden of Trinity
Square, London, close to The Tower of London. The names of the war dead
are inscribed on bronze panels covering the eight main masonry piers which
support the roof, and are arranged alphabetically under their ships, with
the name of the Master or Skipper (if it appears) first in each case.
The Memorial is surmounted by a solid pediment bearing the following dedicatory
inscription: 1914 - 1918 TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE HONOUR OF TWELVE
THOUSAND OF THE MERCHANT NAVY AND FISHING FLEETS WHO HAVE NO GRAVE BUT
THE SEA.
The Memorial
consists of a vaulted corridor 21.5 meters long, 7 meters wide and 7 to
10 meters high. It is open at each end. It has three wide openings at
the front and back, in which are placed pairs of columns. It rises in
the middle in rectangular blocks. It is built of Portland stone finished
with a circular treatment. The Names of the War Dead are carried on bronze
panels, covering the eight main masonry piers which support the roof.
They are arranged alphabetically under their ships of the Merchant Service.
ARTHUR
JAMES LEWIS O'BEIRNE
Lieutenant
57th Sqdn., Royal Flying Corps
Son of Major O'Beirne (Royal Warwickshire Regt.), and Mrs. O'Beirne,
of 95 Eaton Terrace, London, S.W.1.
COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY, Koksijde, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
III. L. 1.
Able Seaman
R/2616
Hood Bn. R.N. Div., Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
who died on Sunday, 30th December 1917. Age 21.
Son of Thomas and Bridget O'Beirne, of 15, Haddon Rd., Clontarf,
Dublin. A Civil Servant (War Office, London).
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
Pier and Face 1 A
On 1 July 1916, supported by a French attack to the south, thirteen divisions
of Commonwealth forces launched an offensive on a line from north of Gommecourt
to Maricourt. Despite a preliminary bombardment lasting seven days, the
German defenses were barely touched and the attack met unexpectedly fierce
resistance. Losses were catastrophic and with only minimal advances on
the southern flank, the initial attack was a failure. In the following
weeks, huge resources of manpower and equipment were deployed in an attempt
to exploit the modest successes of the first day. However, the German
Army resisted tenaciously and repeated attacks and counter attacks meant
a major battle for every village, copse and farmhouse gained. At the end
of September, Thiepval was finally captured. The village had been an original
objective of 1 July. Attacks north and east continued throughout October
and into November in increasingly difficult weather conditions. The Battle
of the Somme finally ended on 18 November with the onset of winter. In
the spring of 1917, the German forces fell back to their newly prepared
defenses, the Hindenburg Line, and there were no further significant engagements
in the Somme sector until the Germans mounted their major offensive in
March 1918. The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the
Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of Great Britain
and Ireland, and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before
20 March 1918 and have no known grave. Over 90% of those commemorated
died between July and November 1916. The memorial also serves as an Anglo-French
Battle Memorial in recognition of the joint nature of the 1916 offensive
and a small cemetery containing equal numbers of Commonwealth and French
graves lies at the foot of the memorial. The memorial, designed by Sir
Edwin Lutyens, was built between 1928 and 1932 and unveiled on 31 July
1932. The dead of other Commonwealth countries who died on the Somme and
have no known graves are commemorated on national memorials elsewhere.
FREDERICK
O'BEIRNE
Gunner
96609
"A" Bty. 95th Bde., Royal Field Artillery
who died on Saturday, 6th January 1917.
Son of the late Thomas and Mary Ann O'Beirne.
BRUAY
COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Pas de Calais, France Grave Reference/ Panel
Number B. 32.
FREDERICK
O'BEIRNE
Private
40618
14th Bn., Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
who died on Friday, 23rd November 1917. Age 20.
Son of W. G. and Emily O'Beirne, of Beechwood House, Broomhill, Partick
West, Glasgow.
CAMBRAI
MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL, Nord, France
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
Panel 10
Diplomat
British Foreign Office
who died 5th June
1916. Age 50.
Son of
Hugh O’Beirne, Jamestown, Co. Roscommon, Republic of Ireland
Although not a combatant like the others on this list,
Hugh James O’Beirne belongs here. He was part of the diplomatic mission
to Russia headed by Lord Kitchener (Field Marshall and British War Minister)
and aboard the HMS Hampshire which was sunk by German naval forces on
June 5, 1916. A total of 643 men aboard were lost; only 12 survived. A
more detailed account is in “The Family O’Beirne,” by Prof. Bryan P. Beirne
(1997), page 47.
The HMS
Hampshire lies on the ocean bottom about 1˝ mile off Marwick Head, Orkney,
Scotland. Bodies that were recovered, about 100, are buried in Lyness
Cemetery, Hoy, Orkney. A large monument in the shape of a Celtic Cross
marks the grave site. (Kitchener was also Irish born, Co. Kerry). The
inscription reads: To The Officers & Men of the HMS Hampshire Who
Were Drowned at Sea on 5th June 1916 and Here Lie Buried.
J O'BEIRNE
Private
22947
2nd Bn., Royal Dublin Fusiliers
who died on Wednesday, 18th October 1916.
CARNOY
MILITARY CEMETERY, Somme, France
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
V. 16.
Carnoy is a village just north of the road, D938, from Albert to Peronne,
about 10 kilometres east-southeast of Albert. The Military Cemetery is
on the south side of the village, on the north side of the road to
Maricourt.
JOHN INGRAM MULLANNIFFE O'BEIRNE
Second Lieutenant
25th Sqdn., Royal Flying Corps
who died on Tuesday, 3rd April 1917. Age 24.
ARRAS FLYING
SERVICES MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France
The Arras
Flying Services Memorial will be found in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery,
which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of
the town of Arras.The Arras Memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, is
a cloister, 25 feet high and 380 feet long, built up on Doric columns,
and facing West. In the broader part of the site, the colonnade returns
to form a recessed and open court, terminated by an apse, and in front
of the apse is the memorial of the Flying Services. The names of the war
dead are carved on stone panels, fixed to the Flying Services Memorial.
On these panels are inscribed the names of the officers and men having
no known grave, of the Royal Naval Air Service, the Royal Flying Corps,
the Royal Air Force and the Australian Flying Corps, either by attachment
from other arms of the forces of the Commonwealth or by original enlistment.
The British Air Services originated in the use of balloons for purposes
of reconnaissance. The balloon gave way to power-driven air machines and
in 1911 an Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers was formed. In 1912 the
Air Battalion was absorbed into the Royal Flying Corps which consisted
of a Naval Wing and a Military Wing and a Central Flying School. These
two wings developed during the course of the war, both sections expanding
greatly until they combined and the Royal Air Force came into being on
the 1 April 1918.
LAWRENCE O'BEIRNE
Private
TF/3288
1st/5th Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment
who died on Saturday, 19th August 1916. Age 21.
Son of the late Vincent and Agnes O'Beirne, of 87, Ravenscroft Rd., Canning
Town, London.
THIEPVAL
MEMORIAL, Somme, France Grave Reference/Panel Number:
Pier and Face 7 C
THIEPVAL
MEMORIAL, Somme, France Grave Reference/Panel Number:
Pier and Face 7 C
On 1 July 1916, supported by a French attack to the south, thirteen divisions
of Commonwealth forces launched an offensive on a line from north of Gommecourt
to Maricourt. Despite a preliminary bombardment lasting seven days, the
German defenses were barely touched and the attack met unexpectedly fierce
resistance. Losses were catastrophic and with only minimal advances on
the southern flank, the initial attack was a failure. In the following
weeks, huge resources of manpower and equipment were deployed in an attempt
to exploit the modest successes of the first day. However, the German
Army resisted tenaciously and repeated attacks and counter attacks meant
a major battle for every village, copse and farmhouse gained. At the end
of September, Thiepval was finally captured. The village had been an original
objective of 1 July. Attacks north and east continued throughout October
and into November in increasingly difficult weather conditions. The Battle
of the Somme finally ended on 18 November with the onset of winter. In
the spring of 1917, the German forces fell back to their newly prepared
defenses, the Hindenburg Line, and there were no further significant engagements
in the Somme sector until the Germans mounted their major offensive in
March 1918. The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the
Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of Great Britain
and Ireland, and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before
20 March 1918 and have no known grave. Over 90% of those commemorated
died between July and November 1916. The memorial also serves as an Anglo-French
Battle Memorial in recognition of the joint nature of the 1916 offensive
and a small cemetery containing equal numbers of Commonwealth and French
graves lies at the foot of the memorial. The memorial, designed by Sir
Edwin Lutyens, was built between 1928 and 1932 and unveiled on 31 July
1932. The dead of other Commonwealth countries who died on the Somme and
have no known graves are commemorated on national memorials elsewhere.
MICHAEL JOHN O'BEIRNE
Private
4939
2nd Bn., Leinster Regiment
who died on Monday, 18th December 1916. Age 19.
Son of Michael and Fanny O'Beirne, of 5 Fagan's Cottages, Newfoundland
St., Dublin.
PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY. MAZINGARBE, Pas de Calais, France Grave
Referece/Panel
Number: I. K. 40.
The cemetery was started in August 1915. In 1916 it was taken over by
the 16th (Irish) Division, who held the Loos Salient at the time, and
many of their dead were brought back to the cemetery from the front line.
The cemetery continued in use until October 1918. After the Armistice,
many isolated graves from the Loos battlefield were brought into the cemetery,
including those of 41 men of the 9th Black Watch. There are now 1,996
Commonwealth burials of the First World War in the cemetery, 277 of them
unidentified. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.
PATRICK
O'BEIRNE
Private
4904
"B" Coy. 1st Bn., Connaught Rangers
who died on Friday, 24th March 1916. Age 20.
Son of Mrs. F. O'Beirne, of 5 Fagan's Cottages, Newfoundland St., Dublin.
AMARA WAR
CEMETERY, Iraq
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
VII. H. 10.
Amara is a town on the left bank of the Tigris some 520 kilometres from
the sea. The War Cemetery is a little east of the town between the left
bank of the river and the Chahaila Canal.
PATRICK
EDMOND O'BEIRNE
Private
19261
6th Bn., Royal Dublin Fusiliers
who died on Monday, 20th November 1916. Age 21.
Son of Elizabeth Flanagan (formerly O'Beirne), of Ballinameen, Boyle,
Co. Roscommon, and the late Luke O'Beirne.
MIKRA BRITISH
CEMETERY, KALAMARIA, Greece
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
1665 .
Mikra British Cemetery is situated approximately 8 kilometres south of
Thessaloniki, on the road to the airport, in the municipality of Kalamaria.
Access is via the main entrance on Vryoylon Street, directly opposite
the communal cemetery of Kalamaria. Within the cemetery will be found
the Mikra Memorial, commemorating nurses, officers and men of the forces
of the Empire who lost their lives in the Mediterranean and whose only
grave is the sea. Their link with the place of the Memorial is, in most
instances, the fact that others who went down in the same vessel were
washed ashore and identified, and are now buried at Thessalonika.
Salonika
(now Thessalonika) was occupied in October 1915, at the invitation of
M. Venizelos, by three French Divisions and the 10th (Irish) Division
from Gallipoli. Other French and British forces landed during the year,
and in the summer of 1916 Russian and Italian troops joined them. In August
1916, a Greek Revolution broke out at Salonika, with the result that the
Greek National Army came into the War on the Allied side; and these forces,
with the reconstituted Serbian Army, formed the Salonika Army to which
the Bulgarians yielded in September, 1918. In the winter of 1919-20, while
the town was still in Allied occupation, a White Russian force took refuge
in Salonika. The town was the base of the British Salonika Force and it
contained, from time to time, eighteen General and Stationary Hospitals.
The earliest British burials took place in the local Protestant and Roman
Catholic Cemeteries. The Anglo-French Military Cemetery was begun in November
1915, and closed to British burials in October 1918. In April, 1917, the
British cemetery at Mikra, on the Western outskirts of the town, was opened,
and it remained in use until 1920. Mikra British Cemetery contains many
graves which were brought in from other cemeteries after the Armistice.
There are also unidentified War graves within the cemetery; next to it
is a cemetery made by the Greeks for the burial of Greek refugees from
Russia.
THOMAS
O'BEIRNE
Sergeant
4642
7th Bn., Leinster Regiment
who died on Thursday, 2nd August 1917.
YPRES (MENIN
GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
Panel 44
Ypres (now Ieper) is a town in the Province of West Flanders. The Memorial
is situated at the eastern side of the town on the road to Menin (Menen)
and Courtrai (Kortrijk).
The Menin
Gate is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which
cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient
stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert
Wood in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war.
The Salient was formed during the First Battle of Ypres in October and
November 1914, when a small British Expeditionary Force succeeded in securing
the town before the onset of winter, pushing the German forces back to
the Passchendaele Ridge. The Second Battle of Ypres began in April 1915
when the Germans released poison gas into the Allied lines north of
Ypres.
This was the first time gas had been used by either side and the violence
of the attack forced an Allied withdrawal and a shortening of the line
of defense. There was little more significant activity on this front until
1917, when in the Third Battle of Ypres an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth
forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further
south. The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines
Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which
began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined
opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather. The campaign finally
came to a close in November with the capture of Passchendaele. The German
offensive of March 1918 met with some initial success, but was eventually
checked and repulsed in a combined effort by the Allies in September.
The battles of the Ypres Salient claimed many lives on both sides and
it quickly became clear that the commemoration of members of the Commonwealth
forces with no known grave would have to be divided between several different
sites. The site of the Menin Gate was chosen because of the hundreds of
thousands of men who passed through it on their way to the battlefields.
It commemorates those who died in the Salient before 16 August 1917. Those
who died after that date are named on the memorial at Tyne Cot, a site
which marks the furthest point reached by Commonwealth forces in Belgium
until nearly the end of the war. New Zealand casualties are commemorated
at Tyne cot and on memorails at Buttes New British Cemetery and Messines
Ridge British Cemetery. The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial now bears the
names of more than 54,000 officers and men whose graves are not known.
The memorial, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield with sculpture by Sir
William Reid-Dick, was unveiled by Lord Plumer in July 1927.
WILLIAM O'BEIRNE
Private
11564
2nd Bn., Irish Guards
who died on Saturday, 13th April 1918. Age 33.
PLOEGSTEERT
MEMORIAL, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium Grave Reference/Panel Number:
Panel 1
PLOEGSTEERT
MEMORIAL, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium Grave Reference/Panel Number:
Panel 1
The Ploegsteert Memorial stands in Berks Cemetery Extension, which is
located 12.5 kilometres south of Ieper town centre. The Memorial now commemorates
11368 men who have no known grave. They fought throughout the War on Belgian
soil beside French troops, and died in France or Belgium when the frontier
was of little interest in this area in which trench warfare lasted longest.
The Memorial is a covered circular colonnade, 20 meters across and 11
meters high, enclosing an open space, and is entered by an opening between
two stone lions. The names of the dead are carved on panels set in the
walls of the colonnade. They belonged to thirty-six different Divisions
and to a hundred Regiments; of these Regiments the Rifle Brigade with
559 names, the Northumberland Fusiliers with 535 and the Durham Light
Infantry with 444 are the most heavily represented.
The Memorial
serves the area from the line Caestre-Dranoutre-Warneton, on the north
to the line Haverskerque-Estaires-Fournes on the south, in which the best-known
features are the towns of Hazebrouck, Merville, Bailleul and Armentieres,
the Forest of Nieppe, and Ploegsteert Wood; and it covers the period from
the arrival of the III Corps in this area in 1914 to the date of the Armistice
with Germany. The Battles of Ypres and Messines fall to the north of these
limits, and the Offensives of 1915 mainly to the south.
EUGENE
BEIRNE
Private
3959
6th Bn., Connaught Rangers
who died on Thursday, 21st March 1918.
POZIERES MEMORIAL, Somme, France
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
Panel 77
Pozieres is a village 6 kilometres north-east of the town of Albert.
F. BEIRNE
Private
351311
9th Bn., Royal Scots
who died on Monday, 23rd April 1917.
Son of Mrs. B. Beirne, of 4 Adelphi Place, Portobello, Midlothian, and
the late Edward Beirne.
LEVEL CROSSING
CEMETERY, FAMPOUX, Pas de Calais, France
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
I. B. 32.
Fampoux is a village 8 kilometres east of Arras on the D42. Level Crossing
Cemetery is on the southern side of the village.
F. J.
BEIRNE
Private
2040
42nd Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F
who died on Thursday, 5th July 1917.
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
III. D. 204.
Bailleul is a large town in France, near the Belgian border, 14.5 kilometres
south-west of Ieper and on the main road from St. Omer to Lille.
Bailleul
was occupied on the 14th October 1914 by the 19th Brigade and the 4th
Division. It became an important railhead, air depot and hospital centre;
the 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 11th, 53rd, 1st Canadian and 1st Australian Casualty
Clearing Stations were quartered in it for considerable periods. It was
a Corps Headquarters until July 1917, when it was severely bombed and
shelled; the burials in Plot III, Row D of the Extension bear witness
to the resulting casualties. The Battle of Bailleul, one of the Battles
of the Lys, began on the 13th and ended on the 15th April 1918. The town
was defended by the 29th, 31st, 34th and 59th (North Midland) Divisions
and the 4th Guards and 147th Brigades, but it was entered by the Germans
in the evening of the 15th. By the end of the month the enemy advance
was held at St. Jans-Cappel and Meteren, North and West of Bailleul; and
the Allied artillery had destroyed the town. It was found empty and re-occupied
on the 30th August 1918. The earliest British burials were made at the
East end of the Communal Cemetery; but by April 1915 the space available
was filled, and the Extension was begun. The Extension was used until
April 1918, and again in September; and after the Armistice graves were
brought in from the neighbouring battlefields. There are now nearly 4,500,
1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this
site. Of these, nearly 200 from the 1914-18 War are unidentified, and
eleven special memorials record the names of soldiers from the United
Kingdom, buried here in April 1918, whose graves were destroyed by shell
fire. The cemetery now covers an area of 9,467 square meters and is enclosed
by a red brick wall, except where the terrace stands which carries the
War Stone. In the centre of the town is the stone obelisk erected by the
25th Division as their Memorial on the Western front, recalling particularly
the beginning of their war service at Bailleul and their part in the Battle
of Messines. The town War Memorial, a copy of the ruined tower and belfry
of the Church of St. Vaast, was unveiled in 1925 by the Lord Mayor of
Bradford, the City which "adopted" Bailleul. The burial grounds
from which graves were removed to Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension
were the following:- PONT-DE-NIEPPE GERMAN CEMETERY, on the South side
of the hamlet of Pont-de-Nieppe, made in the summer of 1918. It contained
German graves (now removed) and those of a soldier and an airman from
the United Kingdom. RENINGHELST CHINESE CEMETERY, in a field a little
South of the Poperinghe-Brandhoek road, where 30 men of the Chinese Labour
Corps were buried in November 1917-March 1918.
J. BEIRNE
Private
19113
2nd Bn., Bedfordshire Regiment
who died on Sunday, 9th September 1917.
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
II. D. 6.
Oosttaverne Wood Cemetery is located 6 km south of Ieper town centre on
the Rijselseweg N336 connecting Ieper to Lille.
JAMES
BEIRNE
Private
17064
Ist Bn., Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers who died Friday 22nd March 1918
POZIERES MEMORIAL, Somme, France
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
Panel 38 to 40
Pozieres is a village 6 kilometres north-east of the town of Albert.
Private
9559
1st Bn., Leinster Regiment who died on Monday 1st March 1915
LES GONARDS
CEMETERY, VERSAILLES, Yvelines, France
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
2. 29
There are now over 150, 1914--18 and 10, 1939--45 war casualties commemorated
in this site. Of these from the 1914--18 War, the great majority died
in 1914--1915 in No. 4 General Hospital.
JOHN BEIRNE
Lance Corporal
1596
2nd Bn., Irish Guards
who died on Monday, 2nd November 1914. Age 41.
Son of Patrick and Catherine Beirne, of Kilmore, Co. Roscommon. Served
with Grenadier Guards in the South African War.
Lance Corporal
"D"
Coy. 1st Bn., Connaught Rangers
who died on Wednesday, 12th April 1916. Age 25.
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
Face 10.
Kirkee, also known as Khadki, is a Military Cantonment adjoining the large
university town of Poona on the Plateau above Bombay. It can be reached
by train from Bombay to Poona or by long distance taxi service from Dada
Taxi Stand, Bombay. There are direct flights from Bombay, Madras and Delhi
but these tend to be irregular. Taxis and Motor Rickshaws are available
from Poona Railway Station. To reach Kirkee War Cemetery, in which the
memorial stands, one must ask for Mula Road along which the cemetery is
located.
The Memorial
commemorates more than 1,800 servicemen who died in India during the First
World War, who are buried in the following 48 civil and cantonment cemeteries
in India and Pakistan where their graves can no longer be properly maintained.
Ahmadabad Cantonment Cemetery; Ahmednagar Government Cemetery; Ajmer New
Cemetery; Ajmer Roman Catholic Cemetery; Alibag Cemetery; Ambala Cantonment
Cemetery; Amritsar Cantonment Cemetery; Bakloh Cemetery; Belgaum Government
Cemetery; Bhusawal Cemetery; Bina Cemetery; Bombay (Sewri) Cemetery; Dagshai
Cemetery; Dalhousie Civil Cemetery; Dalhousie Military Cemetery; Darekasa
Cemetery; Deesa Cantonment Cemetery; Deolali Government Cemetery; Deoli
Cemetery; Dhamangaon Cemetery; Erinpura New Cemetery; Ferozepore Military
Cemetery; Hoshiarpur (Christ Church) Churchyard; Igatpuri Cemetery; Indore
New Cemetery; Jubbulpore Cantonment Cemetery; Jullundur Cantonment Cemetery;
Jutogh New Cemetery; Kalka Cemetery; Kamptee Cemetery; Kamptee Roman Catholic
Cemetery; Kasauli Cemetery; Khandwa Cemetery; Kirkee New Cemetery; Mhow
New Cemetery; Mount Abu Cemetery; Nagpur (Talki) Cemetery; Nasirabad Government
Cemetery; Neemuch Cemetery; Nowgong No 60 New Cemetery; Pachmari Cemetery;
Palampur Churchyard: Poona (St Sepulchre's) Cemetery; Purandhar Cemetery;
Ratlan (BB&CI Railway) European Cemetery; Sabathu Cemetery; Sanjauli
Cemetery, Simla; Simla Old Cemetery; Solon Cemetery. On the same memorial
are commemorated almost 200 East and West African servicemen who died
in non-operational zones in India in the Second World War, and whose graves
either cannot be located or are so situated that maintenance is not possible.
Prrivate
4202
2nd Bn., Connaught Rangers who died on Tursday 29th October 1914.
YPRES (MENIN
GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
Panel 42
Ypres (now Ieper) is a town in the Province of West Flanders. The Memorial
is situated at the eastern side of the town on the road to Menin (Menen)
and Courtrai (Kortrijk).
Company Serjeant Major
6574
2nd Bn, Connaught Rangers
who died on Saturday, 19th September 1914. Age 34.
La Ferte-sous-Jouarre is a small town 66 kilometres to the east of Paris,
and the Memorial is situated in a small park on the south bank of the
River Marne, just off the main road to Paris. The Memorial Register is
kept at the Town Hall. The La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial commemorates
nearly 4,000 officers and men of the British Expeditionary Force who died
in August, September and the early part of October 1914 and who have no
known grave. The monument consists of a rectangular block of stone, 62
feet by 30 feet and 24 feet high, with the names of the dead engraved
on stone panels on all sides of the monument. The monument is surmounted
by a sarcophagus and a trophy carved in stone. At the four corners of
the pavement are stone piers with urns, carved with the coats of arms
of the Empire.
Corporal
24512
1st Bn., Royal Irish Fusiliers
who died on Wednesday, 11th April 1917.
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
II. E. 39.
Roeux is a village about 8 kilometres east of Arras. Brown's Copse Cemetery
is about one kilometre north-west of Roeux on the eastern outskirts of
the neighbouring village of Fampoux. It is signposted from Fampoux village.
P.BEIRNE
Private
9/17222
9th Bn., Royal Dublin Fuiliers who died on Wednesday 13 September 1916.
ST. SEVER
CEMETERY, ROUEN, Seine-Maritime, France
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
B. 21. 29.
St. Sever Cemetery and Extension is situated about 3 kilometres south
of Rouen Cathedral and a short distance west of the road from Rouen to
Elbeuf.
During the 1914--18 war British camps and hospitals were placed on the
Southern outskirts of the city; a Base Supply Depot and the 3rd Echelon
of General Headquarters were established at Rouen. The Hospitals at Rouen
remained there in almost all cases for practically the whole of the war.
They included eight General, five Stationary, one British Red Cross and
one Native Labour Hospitals and No. 2 Convalescent Depot. A number of
the dead from these Hospitals were buried in other cemeteries, but the
great majority were taken to St. Sever; and in September 1916, it was
found necessary to begin an Extension. There are 3,083 Commonwealth burials
of the 1914-1918 war commemorated in this site, 2 of which are unidentified.
There is 1 French Foreign National and 1 non world war burial here.
Second Lieutenant
89th Squdn., Royal Air Force who died on Sunday 18th August 1918 age 22.
Son of Patrick and Teresa Beirne 17 Castlewood Avenue, Rathmines, Co.
Dublin. Born at Mountmellick, Co. Laois, Republic Of Ireland.
St ALBANS CEMETERY, Hertfordshire,United Kingdom Grave Reference/Panel Number: E. N. 19.
During the two world wars, Britain became an island fortress used for
training troops and launching land, sea and air operations around the
globe. There are more than 170,000 Commonwealth war graves in the United
Kingdom, many being those of servicemen and women killed on active service,
or who later succumbed to wounds. Others died in training accidents, or
because of sickness or disease. The graves, many of them privately owned
and marked by private memorials, will be found in more than 12,000 cemeteries
and churchyards. During the Frist World War, the County of Middlesex War
Hospital was established in the Middlesex Mental Hospital at Napsbury,
near St. Albans, and from 1914 to March 1915 the city of St. Albans was
the Headquarters of the 47th London Division. The Second World War saw
the Hill End Hospital, St. Albans, taken over by the Military authorities,
and service war burials were carried out from this hospital. There are
147 First World War burials in St Albans cemetery, 93 of them forming
a war graves plot. Some of the 79 Second World War graves form a separate
plot. The rest of the graves are scattered throughout the cemetery.
WILLIAM
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
I. O. 23.
Wimereux is a small town situated about 5 kilometres north of Boulogne.
Wimereux
was the Headquarters of the Q.M.A.A.C. during the 1914-18 war, and in
1919 it became the General Headquarters of the British Army. From October
1914, onwards, Boulogne and Wimereux formed an important British hospital
centre; and until June, 1918, the Medical Units at Wimereux buried their
dead in the Communal Cemetery, the South-Eastern (or right-hand) half
of which was set aside for British graves. Eleven plots were successively
laid out, of which Plot VII contains Portuguese and Plot V German burials,
and Plot XII (of three graves) and one grave of an officer are in the
French half of the Cemetery. By June 1918, the British half of the Cemetery
was filled, and subsequent burials from the hospitals at Wimereux were
carried out in the new British Cemetery at Terlincthun. During the 1939--45
War British Rear Headquarters moved from Boulogne to Wimereux for a few
days in May 1940, prior to the evacuation of the British Expeditionary
Force from Dunkirk. Thereafter Wimereux was in enemy hands, and the German
Naval Headquarters were situated on the northern side of the town. After
D-Day it was shelled from Cap Griz-Nez, and was re-taken by the Canadian
1st Army on September 22nd, 1944. There are now nearly 3,000, 1914--18
and a small number of 1939--45 war casualties commemorated in this site.
Among the Canadian dead is Lt.-Col. John McCrae, in whose memory a committee
later presented a seat on the Southern wall of the Cemetery, and inscribed
on it a verse of his poem, "In Flanders Fields." The British
portion of the Cemetery falls 9.75 meters to the South-East and it is
surrounded by a stone wall. The headstones are laid flat on the graves.
PATRICK
WILLIAM BERNE
Sergeant
77478
15th Bn., Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regt.) who died on Monday
9th 1917 Age29.
Son of Conner and B.H. Berne, of 3 Montpelier Place, Blackrock, Co. Dublin,
Republic of Ireland.
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
Mem. 6.
Thelus is a village about 6.5 kilometres north of Arras and 1 kilometre
east of the main road from Arras to Lens. The cemetery is on the western
side of the main road and about 1.5 kilometres south of the village.
"NINE
ELMS" was the name given by the Army to a group of trees 460 meters
East of the Arras-Lens main road, between Thelus and Roclincourt. The
cemetery was begun, after the capture of Vimy Ridge, by the burial in
what is now Plot I, Row A of 80 men of the 14th Canadian Infantry Battalion,
who fell on the 9th April, 1917; and this and the next row were filled
by June, 1917. Three burials were made in Plot I, Row C, in July 1918.
The rest of the cemetery was made after the Armistice by the concentration
of British and French graves from the battlefields of Vimy and Neuville-St.
Vaast and from certain small cemeteries. There are now nearly 700, 1914-18
war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, almost 150 are unidentified
and a special memorial is erected to one Canadian soldier, believed to
be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of 44 soldiers
from Canada and ten from the United Kingdom, buried in other cemeteries,
whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. Four graves in Plot IV, identified
as a whole but not individually, are marked by headstones bearing the
additional words: "Buried near this spot". The great majority
of the British graves are of April 1917; the French are of 1914 and 1915.
177 French graves have been removed to other cemeteries. The cemetery
covers an area of 3,355 square meters and is enclosed by a low brick wall.
The following were among the burial grounds from which British graves
were moved to Nine Elms Military Cemetery:- ARRAS ROAD CEMETERY, THELUS,
on the roadside a little North of Nine Elms Cemetery. This graveyard,
originally called "CA 39," contained the graves of 46 Canadian
soldiers, 39 of whom belonged to the 15th Battalion, and most of whom
fell on the 9th April, 1917. GRAVE CA 26, ROCLINCOURT, by the roadside
a little South of Nine Elms Cemetery, in which were buried 72 Canadian
soldiers of the 5th Battalion who fell on the 9th April 1917. GRAVE CA
35, NEUVILLE-ST. VAAST, 914 meters West of Nine Elms Cemetery, in which
were buried 23 Canadian soldiers of the 15th Battalion who fell on the
9th April 1917. GRAVE CA 40, THELUS, 274 meters West of the main road,
by the light railway track. Here were buried 44 Canadian soldiers of the
16th Battalion who fell on the 9th April 1917. GRAVE CB 10, THELUS, 274
meters South-West of the hamlet of Les Tilleuls, in which were buried
52 Canadian soldiers and two from the United Kingdom who fell in April
and May, 1917. GRAVE CC 3, VIMY, just South of the highest point of the
Ridge, in which were buried 58 Canadian soldiers who fell on the 9th and
10th April 1917. ROCLINCOURT SQUARE CEMETERY (or Roclincourt Forward Cemetery
No. 5), 1 kilometre North of the village of Roclincourt, containing the
graves of 23 soldiers of the 51st (Highland) Division who fell on the
9th April 1917. SEAFORTH GRAVE, ROCLINCOURT (or Roclincourt Forward Cemetery
No. 4), a little North-West of the Square Cemetery. Here were buried twelve
N.C.O'S. and men of the 114th Seaforth Highlanders who fell on the 9th
April 1917. *The numerous groups of graves made about this time by the
Canadian Corps Burial Officer were, as a rule, not named, but serially
lettered and numbered.
MICHAEL
BERNES
Lance Corporal
7393
2nd., South Lancashire Regiment who died on Sunday 24th October 1914
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
Panel 23
Le Touret Memorial is located at the east end of Le Touret Military Cemetery,
on the south side of the Bethune-Armentieres main road. The names of those
commemorated are listed on panels set into the walls of the court and
the gallery, arranged by Regiment, Rank and alphabetically by surname
within the rank. Over 13,000 names are listed on the memorial of men who
fell in this area before 25 September 1915 and who have no known grave.
The Memorial
in Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue, is one of those erected
by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to record the names of the officers
and men who fell in the Great War and whose graves are not known. It serves
the area enclosed on the North by the river Lys and a line drawn from
Estaires to Fournes, and on the South by the old Southern boundary of
the First Army about Grenay; and it covers the period from the arrival
of the II Corps in Flanders in 1914 to the eve of the Battle of Loos.
It does not include the names of officers and men of Canadian or Indian
regiments; they are found on the Memorials at Vimy and Neuve-Chapelle.
JOHN
BIRNE
Corporal
65084
24th Bn,. Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regt.) who died on Tuesday 6th November
1917.
Grave Reference/Panel Number:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Ypres (now Ieper) is a town in the Province of West Flanders. The Memorial
is situated at the eastern side of the town on the road to Menin (Menen)
and Courtrai (Kortrijk).
Sources:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission and as specifically cited.
http://www.cwgc.org/