1885 - 1916
CPL David Wallace Crawford
1887 - 1916
Lce-Corpl John Joseph Nickle
1894 - 1916
Pte 17911 Morton Neill
1897 - 1916
Lieut Edward Stanley Ashcroft
1883 - 1918
Serjeant 48046 Arthur Rawlinson Baker
- Age: 22
- From: Toxteth Liverpool
- Regiment: 2/8 LANCS FUSIL
- Died on Friday 8th February 1918
- Commemorated at: Tyne Cot Cemetery
Panel Ref: XXXIX.H.24
He was billeted at Prescot Watch Factory from 14th September 1914, he trained there and also at Knowsley Hall. On 30th April 1915 the 17th Battalion alongside the other three Pals battalions left Liverpool via Prescot Station for further training at Belton Park, Grantham. They remained here until September 1915 when they reached Larkhill Camp on Salisbury Plain. He arrived in France on 07th November 1915.
"FOR COUNTRY AND PROSPERITY".
Tyne Cot Cemetery is located in an area which was known as the Ypres Salient where Commonwealth, French, Belgian and German forces fought almost continuously throughout the First World War.
In 1917, British forces launched the Third Battle of Ypres, which raged from July to November. Forces from the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa fought to push the Germans off the low ridges that dominate the area. On 4 October 1917, during the phase known as the Battle of Passchendaele, the 3rd Australian Division captured a group of German Bunkers on the ridge below the village of Passchendaele.
One of these bunkers was unusually large and was used as an advanced dressing station after its capture. From 6 October 1917 to the end of March 1918, 343 graves were made, on two sides of it, by the 50th (Northumbrian) and 33rd Divisions, and by two Canadian units. The cemetery was in German hands again from 13 April to 28 September, when it was finally recaptured, with Passchendaele, by the Belgian Army.
Tyne Cot Cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when remains were brought in from the battlefields of Passchendaele and Langemarck, and from a few small burial grounds.
Sgt 1694 Frank Rawlinson Baker Lancashire Hussars
Pte 691 Sidney Rawlinson Baker Machine Gun Corps
Pte 29065 Thomas Rawlinson Baker Lancashire Hussars
Killed On This Day.
(108 Years this day)Wednesday 29th March 1916.
Pte 17262 Herbert Edward Ankers
21 years old
(106 Years this day)
Friday 29th March 1918.
Pte 300239 John William Dunn
22 years old
(106 Years this day)
Friday 29th March 1918.
Pte 94251 William Fitton
19 years old
(106 Years this day)
Friday 29th March 1918.
L/Cpl 23131 George William Ollerenshaw
23 years old
(106 Years this day)
Friday 29th March 1918.
Lance Corporal 37652 Leigh Ward
21 years old