Cemetery: HELLES MEMORIAL
Country: Turkey
Locality: unspecified
Location Information: 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.


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The village was entered in the early morning of the 26th August, 1916, by units of the 56th (London) Division and of the French Army; and it remained in Allied occupation until the 24th March, 1918, when the place was captured after a stubborn stand by the South African Brigade at Marrieres Wood. It was retaken on the 29th August, 1918, by the 18th Division.

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Name: WOOD, THOMAS HENRY
Initials: T H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Unit Text: 6th Bn.
Age: 24
Date of Death: 29/09/1916
Service No: 25642
Additional information: Son of Thomas Wood, of 14, Oxford St., Boosbeck.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: C. D. 22.
Cemetery: BOOSBECK (ST. AIDAN) CHURCHYARD

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Country: Belgium
Locality: Ieper, West-Vlaanderen
The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war.

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Country: France
Villers-Bretonneux became famous in 1918, when the German advance on Amiens ended in the capture of the village by their tanks and infantry on 23 April. On the following day, the 4th and 5th Australian Divisions, with units of the 8th and 18th Divisions, recaptured the whole of the village and on 8 August 1918, the 2nd and 5th Australian Divisions advanced from its eastern outskirts in the Battle of Amiens.

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On 1 July 1916, supported by a French attack to the south, thirteen divisions of Commonwealth forces launched an offensive on a line from north of Gommecourt to Maricourt. Despite a preliminary bombardment lasting seven days, the German defences were barely touched and the attack met unexpectedly fierce resistance. Losses were catastrophic and with only minimal advances on the southern flank, the initial attack was a failure.

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HARRY WALKER, who was a Teesside lad and World War Two veteran, died on February 16 at the age of 89.

He was born on November 23, 1917, in Lingdale where his parents lived at Wilkinson Street, and later 24 Moorcock Row. The family later moved to 13 Albion Terrace, Boosbeck.