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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

Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for relatives of Pte Joseph William Wainwright - Royal Welsh Fusiliers - redg no 48939 -  died 14/6/1919 - buried St Mary's The Virgin Church Cemetery, Overton On Dee.  burial on the 17th June 1919 age 25 years.   His address was given as Lightwood Green, Overton.
(Strange some of the dates aren't matching on this one. - There is a grave in this churchyard for Cpl L W Wainwright - 19/6/1919)

Joseph died from wounds & Gas Poisoning. 

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

UK, World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923 names his mother Eliza Ann Wainwright.

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Mother Eliza Ann Wainwright -


St Mary the Virgin Churchyard
Overton, Wrexham, Wales

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/170706035/eliza-wainwright

Flintshire bio.

https://www.flintshirewarmemorials.com/memorials/overton-memorial/overton-soldiers-ww1/wainwright-william/

Joseph William Wainwright was born in the March quarter of 1894, registered in Ellesmere Shropshire (Volume: 6a, Page: 692).   He was the eldest son of Nathan & Eliza Wainwright (nee Peat), who were married in St. Mary’s Church, Overton on the 6th July 1893.  Nathan’s father was James Wainwright, also a Labourer and Eliza’a father was William Peat.
Couple had 4 children bur 2 had died.  Brother James was the survivor.

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

Sandra