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| E G GARBETT Sergeant 404348 14th Bn., Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regt.) who died on Friday, 13th July 1917. Commemorative Information Cemetery: LAPUGNOY MILITARY CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France Grave Reference/ Panel Number: V. A. 2. Location: Lapugnoy is a village 6 kilometres west of Bethune. From the centre of Lapugnoy, head south-west on the D70 in the direction of Marles-les-Mines. On the outskirts there is a crucifix at the side of the main road, turn right here towards Allouagne. After approximately 500 metres there is a track on the left hand side (the Cemetery is signposted here) and the Cemetery can be found on the left hand side, approximately 500 metres, along this track. Historical Information: The Cemetery site was chosen in the summer of 1915, in preparation for the coming British offensive; and the first burials took place in September, in Plot I, the furthest from the road. Plot II was not filled until 1917; but in April, 1917, the Battles of Arras began and the Cemetery had reached the road by the middle of September. Fresh plots were then made on the West side, from the road, almost as far back as the Southern boundary. The dead were brought from the Casualty Clearing Stations at Lapugnoy and Lozinghem (chiefly the 18th and the 23rd), except between May and August, 1918, when fighting units buried in this Cemetery. There are now nearly 1,500, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. The cemetery covers an area of 6,199 square metres. |
| FRED GARBETT Lance Corporal 38975 12th Bn., Gloucestershire Regiment who died on Tuesday, 6th November 1917. Age 32. Additional Information: Son of George and Mary Ann Garbett, of 69, .Sandy Mount Rd., Wath-on-Dearne, Rotherham. Commemorative Information Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Grave Reference/ Panel Number: Panel 72 to 75 Location: The Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery, which is located 9 kilometres north east of Ieper town centre, on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332). The Memorial is a semicircular flint wall 4.25 metres high and over 150 metres long, faced with panels of Portland stone on which are carved nearly 35,000 names of those who have no known grave. There are three apses and two rotundas. The central apse forms the New Zealand Memorial commemorating the names of nearly 1200 men who gave their lives in the Battle of Broodseinde and the Third Battle of Ypres in October 1917; the other two, as well as the rotundas and the wall itself, carry the names of United Kingdom dead who fell in the Salient between 15 August 1917 and the Armistice, in the Third and Fourth Battles of Ypres. Two domed arched pavilions mark the ends of the main wall, each dome being surmounted by a winged female figure with head bowed over a wreath. The following inscription is carved on the frieze above the panels which contain the names: 1914 - HERE ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT, BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH - 1918 |
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