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The Yorkshire Post21d
Grave of Yorkshire soldier identified more than a century after his death
Lance Corporal Samuel Chapman was just 19 when he died of wounds on December 14 1917, after being injured near Passchendaele while serving with the East Yorkshire Regiment. His body was buried as ...
WW1 Scots soldier's grave identified in Belgium after over 100 years
Lieutenant Hugh Barr, of East Kilbride, was killed during an attack on the German-occupied town of Werwick in Belgium on September 30 1918.
Evening Standard on MSN21d
Grave of Lanarkshire soldier identified more than a century after his death
2nd Lieutenant Hugh Barr, from East Kilbride ... after being injured near Passchendaele while serving with the East Yorkshire Regiment. All three graves were identified after researchers submitted ...
London Evening Standard22d
Grave of Lanarkshire soldier identified more than a century after his death
2nd Lieutenant Hugh Barr was one of three ... after being injured near Passchendaele while serving with the East Yorkshire Regiment. All three graves were identified after researchers submitted ...
Daily Record21d
Lanarkshire WW1 soldier 'proudly remembered' after grave identified a century after his death
The Scottish Horse was subsumed by The Black Watch and became 13 th (Scottish Horse) Battalion of that ... while serving with the East Yorkshire Regiment. All three graves were identified after ...
heraldscotland21d
Grave of Scots soldier identified more than 100 years after his death
2nd Lieutenant Hugh Barr ... after being injured near Passchendaele while serving with the East Yorkshire Regiment. All three graves were identified after researchers submitted cases to the ...
'We are amazed': WW1 soldiers finally identified
L/Cpl Chapman enlisted into The East Yorkshire Regiment in March 1915 ... According to records, on 30 September 1918, 35th Battalion Machine Gun Corps supported an attack on Werwik. A fellow officer ...
Keighley News5d
MEMORY LANE: Young recruits and old guns serve their nation
ON Saturday, July 19, 1902, crowds lined the main road through Steeton to watch the guns of the 2nd West Yorkshire Artillery ... E and F companies of the 3rd Battalion of the Duke of Wellington's ...