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Descendants of ??? CRYSALL |
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471. John Percival CRISELL |
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DEATH: JOHN PERCIVAL CRISELL
Lance Corporal
552122
518th Field Coy., Royal Engineers who died on Saturday, 23rd March 1918. Age 22.
Additional Information: Son of Isaac and Catherine Crisell, of 129, Queen's Rd., Gown Hill, Upper Norwood, London.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery: FINS NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, SOREL-LE-GRAND, Somme, France
Grave Reference/Panel Number: VIII. E. 12 |
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Fins is a village on the road between Cambrai and Peronne. The British Cemetery is a little south-east of the village in the district of Sorel Le Grand on the right hand side of the road to Heudicourt. |
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Fins and Sorel were occupied at the beginning of April, 1917, in the German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line. They were lost on the 23rd March, 1918, after a stubborn defence of Sorel by the 6th K.O.S.B. and the staff of the South African Brigade; and they were regained in the following September. The first British burials at Fins were carried out in the Churchyard and the Churchyard Extension, and the New British Cemetery was not begun until July, 1917. It was used by fighting units (especially the 40th, 61st (South Midland) and 9th (Scottish) Divisions) and Field Ambulances until March, 1918, when it comprised about 590 graves in Plots I to IV. It was then used by the Germans, who added 255 burials, including 26 British, in Plots IV, V, and VI. In September and October, 1918, about 73 British soldiers were buried by the 33rd and other Divisions, partly in Plots I and II, but mainly in Plots V and VI. Lastly, Plots VII and VIII were made, and other Plots completed, by the concentration of 591 graves after Armistice from Fins Churchyard Extension and other cemeteries and from the surrounding battlefields. There are now 1289, 1914-18 Commonwealth war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these 208 are unidentified, and special memorials are erected to nine soldiers from the United Kingdom who are believed to be buried among them. Another special memorial records the name of a soldier from the United Kingdom, buried in Fins Churchyard Extension, whose grave could not be found on concentration. Nine graves in Plot VIII, Row E, identified as a whole but not individually, are marked by headstones bearing the words: "Buried near this spot." There are also 277 Foreign National casualties commemorated here. The cemetery covers an area of 4,524 square metres and is enclosed by a brick wall on three sides. The cemeteries from which graves were concentrated to Fins New British Cemetery were the following:- EQUANCOURT CHURCHYARD, now closed, where three soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried in 1917 and 1918. FINS CHURCHYARD, now closed, in which nine soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried in April, 1917. FINS CHURCHYARD EXTENSION, which was on the North side of the churchyard, within the enclosure of a house. It contained the graves of 121 soldiers from the United Kingdom and one from Canada, who fell in April July, 1917, and one German soldier who fell in March, 1918. SOREL-LE-GRAND GERMAN CEMETERY, on the West side of the village, opposite the Communal Cemetery. Here were buried, some by the enemy and some by their comrades, 17 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in 1916-18. |
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478. John CRISELL |
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Private 9/60303
2nd/10th Bn
Middlesex Regiment
who died on Tuesday, 12th March 1918. Age 20. |
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Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Crisell, of 135, Sheldon Rd., Edmonton, London |
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Commemorative Information
Memorial: JERUSALEM MEMORIAL, Israel , Grave Reference/Panel Number: Panel 42 |
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The Jerusalem Memorial stands in Jerusalem War Cemetery which is 4.5 kilometres north of the walled city. The cemetery is situated on the neck of land at the north end of the Mount of Olives, to the west of Mount Scopus, close to the Hyatt Hotel and the Hadassa Hospital. The Memorial commemorates over 3,000 soldiers of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, who fell in Egypt or Palestine during the 1914-1918 war, and who have no known grave. The Memorial takes the form of a Chapel in the centre of the long wall which bounds Jerusalem War Cemetery on the north-east side and occupies the highest point of the cemetery. The Chapel rises 11 metres from a raised stone platform, and on either side of it are curved walls 4.5 metres high with stone panels engraved with the names of the dead. At the two ends of the whole Memorial are stone pylons 6.6 metres high, one bearing the arms of Australia and the other those of New Zealand. The Chapel, built of limestone, was erected by the subscriptions of the officers and men of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, and its interior was decorated with mosaic at the cost of the Government of New Zealand. |
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The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (a name which covers practically all the units which fought under the British flag in Egypt and Palestine) lost by death about 17,000 officers and men, and there are in Egypt and Palestine the graves of more than 20,000 officers and men of the forces of the Commonwealth. These graves, however, include a large proportion due to wounds or sickness in other Expeditionary Forces, and when these and the unnamed graves are deducted there remain a large number of dead whose graves are not known and whose names are recorded on a central Memorial. The Memorial takes the form of a Chapel in the centre of the long wall which bounds Jerusalem War Cemetery on the North-East side and occupies the highest point of the cemetery. The Chapel rises 11 metres from a raised stone platform, and on either side of it are curved walls 4.5 metres high with stone panels bearing the names of the dead. At the two ends of the whole Memorial are stone pylons 6.6 metres high, one bearing the arms of Australia and the other those of New Zealand. The Chapel, built of limestone, was erected by the subscriptions of the officers and men of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, and its interior was decorated with mosaic at the cost of the Government of New Zealand. There are now over 3,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated on this Memorial. |
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485. William POTKINS |
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Debt of Honour Register In Memory of
WILLIAM POTKINS
Private
103046
2nd/6th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
who died on Wednesday 17 April 1918 . Age 38 |
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Son of Charles William and Fanny Potkins, of Arlesey;
husband of Florence Potkins, of Arlesey, Beds. |
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503. Charles James CURTIS |
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Debt of Honour Register In Memory of
CHARLES JAMES CURTIS
Private
2447
1st/4th Bn., London Regt (Royal Fusiliers)
who died on Friday 8 September 1916 . |
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(The parental link has NOT been confirmed) |
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