Private
14060
1st Bn., Lincolnshire Regiment
who died on
Wednesday, 15th December 1915. Age 33.
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Garbutt, of 63, Portland Rd., Shirebrook, Mansfield, Notts.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery: HOUPLINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Nord, France
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: I. A. 27.
Location: The village of Houplines is 2 kilometres east of the centre of Armentieres on the D945. The Communal Cemetery Extension is located on this road to the north-west side of the Communal Cemetery.
Historical Information: Houplines village was in British hands (but near the front line) from the 17th October, 1914, when it was taken by the 4th Division, until the end of the War, except for the period (April to September, 1918) during which it was held by the enemy as the result of the Battles of the Lys. It contained four British cemeteries, in addition to the British plots in the Communal Cemetery; but the graves have now been regrouped, and only two cemeteries remain. Houplines Communal Cemetery Extension was begun, as "Houplines New Military Cemetery", in October, 1914, and used until January, 1916, mainly by the 4th and 6th Divisions. It was enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from other burial grounds and from the battlefields round Armentieres. There are nearly 550, 1914-18 casualties and one 1939-45 war casualty commemorated in this site. Of these, over 50 from the 1914-18 War are unidentified and special memorials are erected to four soldiers from the United Kingdom, known or believed to be buried among them. Another special memorial records the name of a soldier from the United Kingdom, buried in Houplines Old Military Cemetery, whose grave was destroyed by shell fire. The Extension covers an area of 2,499 square metres and is enclosed by a low rubble wall. The following were the more important cemeteries from which British graves were brought to the Extension:- FERME PHILIPPEAUX BRITISH CEMETERY, HOUPLINES, at Le Ruage, near the South-East side of the road to Frelinghien, between the Chateau and the farm. It contained the graves of 75 soldiers from the United Kingdom (who fell mainly in October, 1914, and June-July, 1915) and one German soldier; almost all belonged to the 2nd Seaforths or the 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers. The 2nd Seaforths captured the farm in October, 1914. HOUPLINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY, where 71 United Kingdom soldiers were buried, in two plots, in October, 1914 - October, 1915. Plot I, the larger, was made chiefly by the 1st East Yorks and the 1st West Yorks in the spring of 1915. HOUPLINES OLD MILITARY CEMETERY, on the North-Eastern edge of the village, in which 235 United Kingdom soldiers and one French civilian were buried in December, 1914 - December, 1915, and September and October, 1918. RUE-MARLE CEMETERY, LA CHAPELLE-D'ARMENTIERES (next to a new Church just outside Armentieres on the Bois-Grenier road), where 27 United Kingdom soldiers (mainly of the 5th Cameronians) and two Canadian were buried in 1915. FERME BUTERNE MILITARY CEMETERY is on the West side of the rebuilt Ferme de la Buterne, about 1.6 kilometres South-East of the village. It was used (chiefly by the 6th Division) from January to October, 1915; and it contains the graves of 128 soldiers from the United Kingdom (two of whom are unidentified) and one from Canada. Fifty of the dead belonged to the 2nd Leinster Regiment, 21 to the 2nd London and 20 to the 1st North Staffs.
Private
129182
No.10 Coy. (Chatham), Royal Army Medical Corps
who died on
Tuesday, 12th November 1918.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery: FORT PITT MILITARY CEMETERY, Kent, United Kingdom
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: 1518.
Historical Information: The See was founded by Ethelbert, who commenced the Cathedral about 604. Rochester Castle was built in the reign of the Conqueror. There were naval and military establishments in the neighbourhood of Rochester, and some fishing and shipping at the port. It is a permanent cemetery of some age, owned by the War Office, and in the older part is a Crimean War Memorial It contains graves of both World Wars and a Cross of Sacrifice was erected in the war graves plot. The 1939-1945 War graves are north of the plot in a part of the cemetery which had not hitherto been used. Two of our soldiers are not identified. All save two of the British graves are together in a group.