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updated: Apr 23, 2003
GUARDS WWI BRITISH CEMETERY
 



It was begun by the guards Division in September 1916, and carried on by other units until March 1917, and to a small extent in March, August, and September 1918. It contained at the Armistice 100 graves, of which 19 were those of officers and men of the Foot Guards; and it was then increased by the concentration into Plot II of 56 graves from Priez Farm Cemetery. 6 German graves of 1918 have been removed to anther burial ground.

The cemetery now contains the graves of 152 soldiers from the United Kingdom and 4 from Newfoundland, 15 of whom are unidentified; and special memorials are erected to 30 soldiers from the United Kingdom, buried in Priez Farm Cemetery and Combles German Cemetery, whose graves were destroyed by shellfire. It covers an are of 989 square metres. It is enclosed by a rubble wall.

The register records the particulars of 171 war dead, existing or commemorated in this cemetery.

Preiz Farm Cemetery, Combles, stood at the South-East corner of Le Priez Farm, on the North side of the road from Combles to Rancourt. The farm was taken by the 18th division on the 1st September 1918, after very heavy fighting. The Cemetery contained the graves of 79 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in the winter of 1916-17 and in August and September 1918.


Number of burials by Unit

 Welsh Regt

24

 

Coldstream Guards

12

Royal Field Artillery

11

 

17th Bn London Regt (Poplar & Stepney Rifles)

10

Machine Gun Corps (Inf)

8

 

Royal Garrison Artillery

8

West Yorkshire Regt

8

 

Scots Guards

7

Middlesex Regt

6

 

Royal Horse Artillery

6

East Yorkshire Regt

5

 

Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt)

5

Grenadier Guards

4

 

Royal Newfoundland Regt

4

Suffolk Regt

4

 

Yorkshire Regt (Green Howards)

4

Ox and bucks Light Inf

3

 

Rifle Brigade

3

Royal Berkshire Regt

3

 

Royal Engineers

3

York & Lancaster Regt

3

 

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

2

Cameronians (Sco. Rifles)

2

 

East Lancashire Regt

2

Manchester Regt

2

 

Royal Irish Rifles

2

South Staffordshire Regt

2

 

1st Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers)

1

24th Bn London Regt (The Queens)

1

 

8th Bn London Regt (P.O. Rifles)

1

Army Service Corps

1

 

Dorsetshire Regt

1

East Surrey Regt

1

 

Essex Regt

1

Highland Light Inf

1

 

Kings Liverpool Regt

1

Kings Own Scottish Borderers

1

 

Kings Royal Rifle Corps

1

Lancashire Fusiliers

1

 

Lincolnshire Regt

1

Monmouthshire Regt

1

 

Queens (Royal West Surrey Regt)

1

Royal Army Medical Corps

1

 

Somerset Light Inf

1

Welsh Guards

1

 

 

 

Identified Burials

  171

 

 

 

Unidentified Burials

  15

 

 

 

Total Burials

 186

 

 

 


Awards buried in this cemetery

BAILEY, Maj. Guy Horsman, M.C. Commanding "L" Bty, 15th Brig. Royal Horse Artillery. Killed in action near Sailly-Saillisel 28th Feb. 1917, aged 25. Son of Col. Edward Horsman Bailey of Kingham, Oxon. 1 D 1

BARR, 2nd Lt. Percival Fowler, M.C. 20th Bn. Middlesex Regt. Died 2nd March 1917, aged 27. Son of Mr. & Mrs. J. Barr of Natal, South Africa. 2 A 6

BOWEN, Lt. Col. Alfred John Hamilton, D.S.O. and Bar, Three times Mentioned in Despatches. 22nd Bn. Monmouthshire Regt. Killed in action 2nd March 1917, aged 31. 1 D 8

EDE, Capt. Edwin William, M.C. 11th Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.) Died 30th Aug. 1918. 1 E 2

HARPER, Capt. John Alexander, M.C. Royal Army Medical Corps, attd. 7th Bn. Yorkshire Regt. Died 14th Feb. 1917, aged 28. 1 B 1

LISTER, Sgt. Arthur, M.M. 10th Bn. West Yorkshire Regt. Died 12th Feb. 1917. 1 B 16

RICHARDS, Gnr. Franklyn Wallace, M.M. "C" Bty. 91st Brig. Royal Field Artillery. Died 12th March 1917. 1 A 19

Also buried in this cemetery

BEWICKE-COPLEY, Capt. Redevers Lionel Calverley. Coldstream Guards. Killed in action 21st Dec. 1916, aged 26. Son of Brig. Gen. Sir Alington and Lady Bewicke-Copley. 1 C 3

BRADBURY, C.S.M. George. King's Coy. 1st Bn. Grenadier Guards. Died of wounds 5th March 1917, aged 35. 17 years service. 1 A 15

CUBITT-IRELAND, 2nd Lt. Leslie Woodhouse. 12th Bn. Manchester Regt. Killed in action 12th Feb. 1917, aged 19. Born at Hampton Wick, Middx. Gazetted Oct. 1916, Manchester Regt. pending transfer, having passed examination for permanent commission in Indian Army. 1 C 24

PATERSON, 2nd Lt. Lamont Livingstone. 8th Bn. London Regt. (Post Office Rifles) Killed in action at Priez Farm 1st Sept. 1918, aged 24. Only son of Judge George and Mrs. Paterson of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Graduate (in Arts) of Manitoba University. Enlisted in Winnipeg as a Pte. in "C" Coy. 196th (Western University) Bn. 2 A 20

RAYNER, 2nd Lt. Haydn Eric William. 3rd, attd. 6th Bn. Ox. & Bucks. Light Inf. Killed in action 17th March 1917, aged 25. Educated at Bealing. Returned from India to join the colours. 1 D 17

REID, 2nd Lt. William George. 3rd Bn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Died 23rd Feb. 1917, aged 28. M.A. (Hons. Aberdeen), B.A. Oxon. 2 A 7

TAYLOR, Gnr. Squire Lawrence. Service number 111111. "L" Bty. Royal Horse Artillery. Killed in action 28th Feb. 1917, aged 25. 1 D 4