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 Harold Elgar

    Died 1917

    British Army B/19537 Private Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) 26th Battalion

  • Profile picture for George Cyril Stanley Mann

    Born 1897

    Died 1917

    British Army 19275 Private East Surrey Regiment

    British Army G/19275 Lance Corporal East Surrey Regiment 8th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Morris James Marsden

    Born 1895

    Died 1917

    British Army Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps

    British Army 2325 Sergeant Glamorganshire Yeomanry 3/1st Battalion

    British Army Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 214th Company

  • Profile picture for Percy Grace Charlesworth

    Died 1917

    British Army 202248 Private Seaforth Highlanders 5th Battalion

  • 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 Walter Kissack Looney

    Born 1884

    Died 1917

    British Army 37069 Private Training Reserve

    British Army 1429 Private Royal Engineers

    British Army 44629 Private South Wales Borderers 1st 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 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 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 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 Raymond Hogbin

    Born 1896

    Died 1917

    British Army 23093 Private Royal Fusiliers 1st Battalion

    British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Fusiliers 1st Battalion

    British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Fusiliers 32nd 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 Cyril Arthur Ashman

    Born 1897

    Died 1917

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

  • Profile picture for Henry Jefferson

    Born 1886

    Died 1917

    British Army 764992 Private London Regiment 28th battalion london regiment (artist Battalion

    British Army 764992 Private London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) "D" Company, 1st/28th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Sidney Taylor Blane

    Died 1917

    British Army 13081 Private Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

    British Army Second Lieutenant Manchester Regiment 3rd Battalion attached 11th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Leslie Alfred Ball

    Died 1917

    British Army Captain Middlesex Regiment 10th Battalion (Territorial Force)

    British Army Captain Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) 10th Battalion (Territorial)

  • Profile picture for William Arthur Imber

    Born 1894

    Died 1917

    British Army University Public School Corps

    British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2nd/7th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Harry Edwards

    Born 1898

    Died 1917

    British Army 762663 Private London Regiment 28th battalion london regiment (artist Battalion

    British Army 762663 Private London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) 1st/28th 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)