Barclays Bank Companies Men - Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) - Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial

Barclays Bank Companies Men - Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) - Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial

The Third Battle of Ypres, commonly known as the Battle of Passchendaele, took place from 31st July 1917 to 10th November 1917. Specific battles included Messines (7–14 Jun), Pilckem Ridge (31 Jul – 2 Aug), Langemarck (16–18 Aug), Menin Road Ridge (20–25 Sep), Polygon Wood (26 Sep – 3 Oct), Broodseinde (4 Oct), Poelcappelle (9 Oct), the First Battle of Passchendaele (12 Oct) and the Second Battle of Passchendaele (26 Oct – 10 Nov). Tyne Cot Cemetery, which bears witness to the ferocious battle, is the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the world in terms of burials. There are 11,961 Commonwealth servicemen buried there, of whom more than 8,300 remain unidentified. The site also contains the Tyne Cot Memorial Wall to the Missing, which commemorates nearly 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom and New Zealand who died on the Ypres Salient after 16th August 1917 and whose graves are not known. This community remembers the lives of employees of Barclays Bank and their constituent banks who were killed at the Third Battle of Ypres, and are buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery or commemorated on the Memorial Wall to the Missing there. [The constituent banks included are Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank, Bank of Liverpool & Martins (including Bank of Liverpool, Martins Bank, Cattle Trade Bank, Cocks Biddulph & Co, Equitable Bank, Halifax Commercial Banking Co, and Palatine Bank), London & Provincial Bank, London & South Western Bank, Union Bank of Manchester, and United Counties Bank.] Detailed information about the battle is available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Passchendaele . n.b. CWGC are seeking descendants of those killed at this battle, who are invited to apply to attend 2017 commemorative events. Please see http://www.cwgc.org/news-events/news/2017/1/commemorations-at-cwgc-tyne-cot-cemetery-for-the-centenary-of-passchendaele.aspx .

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  • Profile picture for John Josselyn Brooke

    Born 1894

    Died 1917

    British Army Captain Suffolk Regiment 6th Battalion (Territorial Force)

    British Army Lieutenant Suffolk Regiment 2nd/6th Battalion attached 3rd/4th Battalion The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

    British Army Second Lieutenant Suffolk Regiment 6th (Cyclist) Battalion (Territorial Force)

  • Profile picture for Percy Grace Charlesworth

    Died 1917

    British Army 202248 Private Seaforth Highlanders 5th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Howard Cyril Barrow

    Born 1894

    Died 1917

    British Army Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps

    British Army Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

    British Army Lieutenant Yorks and Lancaster Regiment

  • Profile picture for Idris Rees

    Died 1917

    British Army Private Training Reserve Battalion 10th Battalion

    British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Welsh Fusiliers 3rd Battalion attached 1st Battalion

  • Profile picture for Reginald Joseph Ennis

    Born 1896

    Died 1917

    British Army 6796 Private London Regiment 28th battalion london regiment (artist Battalion

    British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Irish Rifles 1st Battalion

  • Profile picture for Bertie Philip Emsley

    Died 1917

    British Army GS/67378 Private London Regiment 2nd Battalion

    British Army T/308383, A.S.C. Army Service Corps

    British Army GS/67378 Private Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) Posted to 2nd/2nd Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)

  • Profile picture for Allan John Winterbourne

    Born 1896

    Died 1917

    British Army 5551 Private Honourable Artillery Company 2nd Battalion

    British Army 5551 Private Honourable Artillery Company 1st Reserve Battalion

    British Army 5551 Private Honourable Artillery Company Depot

  • Profile picture for James Herbert Molyneux

    Died 1917

    British Army 761650 Private London Regiment 28th battalion london regiment (artist Battalion

    British Army Second Lieutenant King's Royal Rifle Corps 12th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Reginald Charles O'donoghue

    Born 1895

    Died 1917

    British Army 3048 Private London Regiment 28th battalion london regiment (artist Battalion

    British Army 760388 Private London Regiment 28th battalion london regiment (artist Battalion

    British Army 760388 Lance Corporal London Regiment "A" Company

  • Profile picture for Walter Ernest Grew

    Died 1917

    British Army 763615 Private London Regiment 28 (County of London) Battalion (Artist's Rifles) (Territorial Force)

    British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Warwickshire Regiment 16th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Norman Scholes Ream

    Born 1887

    Died 1917

    British Army 7800 Private London Regiment 28th battalion london regiment (artist Battalion

    British Army 761966 Private London Regiment 28th battalion london regiment (artist Battalion

    British Army 761966 Private London Regiment 28th battalion london regiment (artist Battalion

  • Profile picture for Alfred Charles Chitty

    Born 1888

    Died 1917

    British Army 765923 Private London Regiment 28th battalion london regiment (artist Battalion

    British Army 765923 Private London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) 1st/28th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Herbert Hartley Wicks

    Born 1897

    Died 1917

    British Army PS/2441 Private Middlesex Regiment 1st/8th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Frederick Procter

    Born 1884

    Died 1917

    British Army 2939 Machine Gun Corps

    British Army 200822 Serjeant Tank Corps "D" Battalion

  • Profile picture for Benton Madeley

    Born 1888

    Died 1917

    British Army 17888 Private Liverpool Regiment

    British Army 17888 Private The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 19th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Stanley Alfred Haves

    Born 1898

    Died 1917

    British Army 23473 Private Essex Regiment

    British Army G/17254 Private Royal Sussex Regiment 13th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Harold Meldrum

    Born 1895

    Died 1917

    British Army TF/241020 Private Royal West Kent Regiment

    British Army 241020 Private Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) 1st Battalion

  • Profile picture for Ralph Cottier Shimmin

    Born 1898

    Died 1917

    British Army 270091 Private Liverpool Regiment

    British Army 235096 Private Royal Welsh Fusiliers 9th Battalion

    British Army 8828 Private Liverpool Regiment

  • Profile picture for Cyril Arthur Ashman

    Born 1897

    Died 1917

    British Army 7461 Private Honourable Artillery Company 2nd Battalion (Infantry)

  • Profile picture for Leonard Arthur Rayner

    Born 1887

    Died 1917

    British Army 10750 Private Honourable Artillery Company 2nd Battalion

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