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Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for blood relatives of Pte A Taylor - The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment) - died 11/9/1919 - Service Number: 18388

The private memorial marking the grave of Pte Taylor no longer provides adequate commemoration.
The Commission are in the process of producing a headstone to mark his grave.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/400405/a-taylor/

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59788682/a-taylor

If you are related and know of someone who is, CWGC would like to hear from you.

Sandra

Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for blood relatives of Pte Robert William Turner - Northumberland Fusiliers - Redg no 2771 - died 15/9/1915 Newcastle Upon Tyne (nat causes) -  - buried  Ashington (Holy Sepulchre) Churchyard.

CWGC are in the process of producing a headstone to mark his grave.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Turner, of Horncliffe, Berwick-on-Tweed; husband of Alice Turner, of 101, North Seaton Rd., Ashington, Northumberland.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/866652/robert-william-turner/

UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929

Pte Robert William Turner - Death Date   15 Sep 1915    Newcastle
Regiment   Northumberland Fusiliers  - Regimental Number   2771
Widow Alice

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Holy Sepulchre Churchyard
Ashington, Northumberland Unitary Authority, Northumberland
PLOT 2260.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/269240216/robert-william-turner

Sandra

Grave of Lieutenant Charles Stewart Cautherley was re-dedicated at CWGC Poelcapelle British Cemetery. Belgium. 21 st March 2024 - a century after his death.

https://www.cwgc.org/our-work/news/grave-of-lieutenant-charles-stewart-cautherley-is-rededicated-at-cwgc-poelcapelle-british-cemetery-belgium/

Lieutenant Charles Stewart Cautherley was born in the Far Headingley area of Leeds, Yorkshire in 1881, to parents Charles and Mary. He had one older sister, Louisa. He was a member of the Honourable Artillery Company between 1909 and 1915, before he was gazetted to the Hertfordshire Regiment in October 1915.

He joined the 1st Battalion in April 1916 and in September 1916 was reported as suffering from shell shock, although he returned to the Battalion soon afterwards. He then spent time in the First Army Provosts, returning to the Hertfordshire Battalion on 10 April 1918.

On 26 April 1918, while retiring to a new defensive line north of Voormezele, Lieutenant Cautherley was overtaken by the rapid German advance and killed. His burial was not recorded, and following the war he was commemorated by name on the CWGC Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing.

In 1923 his remains were concentrated into the Poelcapelle British Cemetery as an unidentified officer of the Hertfordshire Regiment. Contemporary research has now led to Lieutenant Cautherley’s identification. The CWGC has marked his new point of commemoration with a headstone bearing his name and the epitaph ‘He bravely sacrificed his life for his country’ provided by his relatives.

http://www.hertsatwar.co.uk/biographies/890432/charles-stewart-cautherley

Previously listed FIND A GRAVE

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132109105/charles-stewart-cautherley

Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for blood relatives of Ordinary Seaman Thomas James Tait Mitchell - Royal Navy - died 11/11/1918 - buried Selkirk Cemetery.

Ordinary Seaman Thomas Mitchell served in the Royal Navy on board H.M.S. "Dido," Service No. J/70155(CH)


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Selkirk Cemetery, Selkirkshire
Selkirk, Scottish Borders.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98181082/thomas-james_tait-mitchell

Also mentioned in the Scotland, National War Memorial Index, 1914-1945

https://www.snwm.org/roll-search/?id=1914133&searchid=90f5f4c8cbdb1eef2faf17cb46e32ac0&page=1

If you are related or know of someone who is, CWGC would like to hear from you.

Sandra