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Commonwealth War Graves Commission
ALBERT HUDDLESTON
Private
2088
1st,/5th Bn., Lancashire Fusiliers who died on Saturday 7 August 1915.
Cemetery: HELLES MEMORIAL Turkey
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Panel 58 to 72 or 218 to 219
Location: The Helles Memorial stands on the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula.
It takes the form of an obelisk over 30 metres high that can be seen
by ships passing through the Dardanelles.
Visiting Information: The Panel Numbers quoted at the end of each entry
relate to the panels dedicated to the Regiment served with. In some
instances where a casualty is recorded as attached to another Regiment,
his name may alternatively appear within their Regimental Panels. Please
refer to the on-site Memorial Register Introduction to determine the
alternative panel numbers if you do not find the name within the quoted
Panels.
Historical Information: The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought
by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out
of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and
Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles
and the Black Sea. The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April
1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian
and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area
soon known as Anzac. On 6 August, further landings were made at Suvla,
just north of Anzac, and the climax of the campaign came in early August
when simultaneous assaults were launched on all three fronts. However,
the difficult terrain and stiff Turkish resistance soon led to the stalemate
of trench warfare. From the end of August, no further serious action
was fought and the lines remained unchanged. The peninsula was successfully
evacuated in December and early January 1916. The Helles Memorial serves
the dual function of Commonwealth battle memorial for the whole Gallipoli
campaign and place of commemoration for many of those Commonwealth servicemen
who died there and have no known grave. The United Kingdom and Indian
forces named on the memorial died in operations throughout the peninsula,
the Australians at Helles. There are also panels for those who died
or were buried at sea in Gallipoli waters. The memorial bears more than
21,000 names. There are four other Memorials to the Missing at Gallipoli.
The Lone Pine, Hill 60, and Chunuk Bair Memorials commemorate Australian
and New Zealanders at Anzac. The Twelve Tree Copse Memorial commemorates
the New Zealanders at Helles. Naval casualties of the United Kingdom
lost or buried at sea are recorded on their respective Memorials at
Portsmouth, Plymouth and Chatham, in the United Kingdom.
JACK HUDDLESTON
Private
14613120
1st Bn., East Lancashire Regiment who died on Thursday 17 August 1944
. Age 21 .
Son of Arthur William and Jeannie Huddleston, of Sale, Cheshire.
Cemetery: BANNEVILLE-LA-CAMPAGNE WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
Grave or Reference Panel Number: VIII. C. 13.
Location: Banneville-la-Campagne is a village in Normandy. The cemetery
lies 100 metres south of the main road (the N175) between Caen and Pont
l'Eveque, about 8 kilometres east of Caen.
Historical Information: The Allied offensive in north-western Europe
began with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944. For the most part,
the men buried at Banneville-la-Campagne War Cemetery were killed in
the fighting from the second week of July 1944, when Caen was captured,
to the last week in August, when the Falaise Gap had been closed and
the Allied forces were preparing their advance beyond the Seine. The
cemetery contains 2,170 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War,
140 of them unidentified, and five Polish graves.
P HUDDLESTON
Private
15753
1st Bn., Royal Scots Fusiliers who died on Thursday 1 March 1917 . Age
22 .
Son of John Thomas Huddleston, of 136, Addison St., Blackburn, Lancs.
Cemetery: FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS Pas de Calais, France
Grave or Reference Panel Number: II. E. 7.
Location: Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery is in the western part of the
town of Arras in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle, near the Citadel,
approximately 2 kilometres due west of the railway station.
Historical Information: The French handed over Arras to Commonwealth
forces in the spring of 1916 and the system of tunnels upon which the
town is built were used and developed in preparation for the major offensive
planned for April 1917. The Commonwealth section of the FAUBOURG D'AMIENS
CEMETERY was begun in March 1916, behind the French military cemetery
established earlier. It continued to be used by field ambulances and
fighting units until November 1918. The cemetery was enlarged after
the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields and
from two smaller cemeteries in the vicinity. The cemetery contains 2,651
Commonwealth burials of the First World War. In addition, there are
30 war graves of other nationalities, most of them German. The graves
in the French military cemetery were removed after the war to other
burial grounds and the land they had occupied was used for the construction
of the Arras Memorial and Arras Flying Services Memorial. The ARRAS
MEMORIAL commemorates almost 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom,
South Africa and New Zealand who died in the Arras sector between the
spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918, the eve of the Advance to Victory,
and have no known grave. The most conspicuous events of this period
were the Arras offensive of April-May 1917, and the German attack in
the spring of 1918. Canadian and Australian servicemen killed in these
operations are commemorated by memorials at Vimy and Villers-Bertonneux.
A separate memorial remembers those killed in the Battle of Cambrai
in 1917. The ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL commemorates more than 1,000
airmen of the Royal Naval Air Service, the Royal Flying Corps, and the
Royal Air Force, either by attachment from other arms of the forces
of the Commonwealth or by original enlistment, who were killed on the
whole Western Front and who have no known grave. During the Second World
War, Arras was occupied by United Kingdom forces headquarters until
the town was evacuated on 23 May 1940. Arras then remained in German
hands until retaken by Commonwealth and Free French forces on 1 September
1944. The cemetery contains seven Commonwealth burials of the Second
World War. Both cemetery and memorial were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens,
with sculpture by Sir William Reid Dick.
T HUDDLESTON
Private
27953
1st Bn., East Lancashire Regiment who died on Tuesday 16 April 1918
.
Cemetery: SUFFOLK CEMETERY, LA ROLANDERIE FARM, ERQUINGHEM-LYS Nord,
France
Grave or Reference Panel Number: II. B. 10.
Location: Erquinghem-Lys is a village and commune in the Department
of the Nord, on the main road from Estaires to Armentieres and on the
south bank of the river Lys. From the Mairie in Erquinghem head north
east towards Armentieres. After the school (Approximately 300 metres),
turn right towards Bois Grenier. Continue along this road for 900 metres
crossing the railway line on the way then turn right into the farmyard.
The track leading to the Cemetery is immediately after the barn building.
Historical Information: Erquinghem-Lys remained in British hands from
October 1914 until the 10th April 1918, and it was finally retaken in
September 1918. La Rolanderie Farm was used by the 34th Division as
Brigade Headquarters in February and August 1916 and in March 1918;
and between the 8th and the 19th April 1918 this cemetery was made on
the South-West side of the Farm. It had then become the headquarters
of the 121st Brigade, and was severely shelled and bombed. The cemetery
contains the graves of 43 soldiers from the United Kingdom, of whom
36 belonged to the 11th and 12th Suffolk Regiment, and of whom eight
are unidentified. The name, originally La Rolanderie Farm Military Cemetery,
was changed in May 1925 at the request of the late O.C. 11th Battalion,
Suffolk Regiment. The cemetery covers an area of 405 square metres and
is enclosed by a low brick wall.
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