Showing posts with label Canadian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canadian. Show all posts
Saturday, 28 January 2023
Canadian War Grave Leeds
Picture of Canadian War Grave at Leeds.
I went back to Holbeck cemetery here in Leeds a couple of days back, I never finished looking around last time and although the weather was not really good, very cloudy, cold and totally overcast I had a reason for stopping by there.
I recently got an email from someone in Canada, who having seen my earlier post about the cemetary at Holbeck emailed to ask if I had a photo of the grave of their great uncle who left Canada for the Great War and died in Leeds in 1916. I thought not because I would have recalled a Canadian Commonwealth War Graves Commission - CWGC headstone with the maple leaf at the top and this was the case but I promised that I would go back and have a look.
The last CWGC headstone that I found in the cemetery was the one I was looking for, Lewis Haddlesey, born Feb 15, 1896. Lewis joined up in August 1916 and served with the 14th Canadian Forestry Corp and died Dec 31 1916, after 4 months in the service at the age of 22.
I was saying to someone a little while back I get more questions about graveyards than any other subject I have written about. I do try to be helpful because my grandfather was at Passchendaele. I too served in the military, so I had the honour if that's the word, to attend a couple of military funerals. Also of course there is the social history in churchyards behind these rather bleak CWGC headstones and also the normal civilian gravestones. I came across some last week in a new to me cemetery and later discovered one was a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot.
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