I visited Wombwell cemetery earlier today, to search for headstones commemorating WW1 soldiers.
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| Wombwell Cemetery |
I was unable to find memorials to the two soldiers I was actually looking for (Robert Arthur Killingreay and Cooper Allen Robinson.) Both those headstones had either been removed or become grown over. I did however accidentally stumble across a memorial to Sergeant George Brough.
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| Kerbstone with an inscription to George Brough |
George Brough enlisted in Liverpool and served with the Royal Horse and Field Artillery. He died on 27th October 1918 and was interred at Tourgeville cemetery, France. A fortnight after his death, George's widow Edith Smart gave birth to a son, she named George.
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Headstone comemorating J E Russell
Photo credit Pete Schofield of the BMWP |
Earlier in the month Pete Schofield of the
Barnsley War Memorial Project also visited the cemetery and found two headstones commemorating Wombwell soldiers
Luke Barker and
James Edward Russell.
