Private
136029
42nd Bn., Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regt.)
who died on
Tuesday, 15th August 1916.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery: BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: VIII. B. 141.
Location: Boulogne-sur-Mer is a large Channel port. Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, one of the town cemeteries, lies in the district of St Martin Boulogne, just beyond the eastern (Chateau) corner of the Citadel (Haute-Ville). The cemetery is a large civil cemetery, split in two by the Rue de Dringhem, just south of the main road (RN42) to St Omer. The Commonwealth War Graves plot is located down the western edge of the southern section of the cemetery, with an entrance in the Rue de Dringhen. Car parking is available along the Rue de Dringhen.
Historical Information: Boulogne, was one of the three Base ports most extensively used by the British Armies on the Western Front, throughout the 1914-18 War. It was closed and cleared on the 27th August, 1914, in consequence of the retreat of the Allies; but it was opened again in October, and from that month to the end of the war Boulogne and Wimereux formed one of the chief Hospital areas. The dead from the Hospitals at Boulogne itself were buried, until June (in a few cases July), 1918, in the Cimetiere de L'Est, one of the Town Cemeteries. The British graves form a long, narrow strip along the right hand edge of the cemetery; they are arranged in seven plots, numbered I to IV and VII to IX. (The number V was given to the German Plot and VI to the Portuguese.) In the spring of 1918 it was found that the ground available in the Eastern Cemetery was being filled up, in spite of repeated extensions to the South, and the site of the new cemetery at Terlincthun was chosen. During the 1939-45 War Boulogne was, for a short time in May 1940, again the site of British hospitals and of Rear General Head Quarters. Taken by the Germans at the end of that month, it remained in their hands until re-captured by the Canadians on September 22nd 1944. There are now nearly 6,000, 1914-18 and 200, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. The cemetery covers an area of 8,040 square metres.
Private
4540267
West Yorkshire Regt. (Prince of Wales's Own)
who died on
Thursday, 19th November 1942. Age 33.
Additional Information: Son of Charles and Mary Ann Garbett.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery: ECCLES (PEEL GREEN) CEMETERY, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: Sec. A.3. Grave 1539.
Sergeant
624296
106 Sqdn., Royal Air Force
who died on
Thursday, 15th October 1942. Age 22.
Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. David Garbett, of Wolverhampton.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery: UDEN WAR CEMETERY, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: 4. G. 11.
Location: Uden is a town on the main road between Eindhoven and Nijmegen. The War Cemetery is 350 metres from the centre of the town on the Nijmegen road, at the junction with the road to Zeeland. The cemetery is also signposted on the N265 Uden-Eindhoven.
Historical Information: Until its liberation in September 1944, Uden was occupied by the Germans. In the earlier years of the war British and Allied servicemen were buried in the garden of the parish priest, which adjoined the Roman Catholic Cemetery. Later it became necessary to provide another burial ground for them, and in 1943 the municipality acquired for this purpose the Roman Catholic Cemetery, unused since about 1918. The cemetery is enclosed by the high brick wall originally built around the old church and churchyard. (the church was burnt down in the 1870's and a new one was built elsewhere in the town.) After the war more than 100 graves from the garden of the parish priest, and also a number of isolated graves from various parts of the commune, were moved into this cemetery.