Tpr William Alfred Bishop 1 Life Guards d.22/10/14

[Will O'Brien]

As per CWGC

Name: BISHOP

Initials: W A

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Trooper

Regiment: 1st Life Guards

Date of Death: 22/10/1914

Service No: 2429

Additional information: Husband of Alice Elizabeth Bishop, of 13, Hatherley Rd., Bishopston, Bristol.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: D1. 4.

Cemetery: YPRES TOWN CEMETERY

[Will O'Brien]

& the cemetery info

Cemetery: YPRES TOWN CEMETERY

Country: Belgium

Locality: Ieper, West-Vlaanderen

Historical Information: From October 1914 to the summer of 1918, Ypres (now Ieper) formed the centre of a salient held by Commonwealth (and for a while French) forces. From April 1915, the town was bombarded and destroyed more completely than any other town of its size on the western front. YPRES TOWN CEMETERY, close to the Menin Gate, was used from October 1914 to May 1915, and once in 1918. The cemetery contains 145 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, grouped in plots among the civil graves. The EXTENSION, on the east side of the town cemetery, was also begun in October 1914 and was used until April 1915, and on two further occasions in 1918. The extension was much increased after the Armistice when 367 graves were brought in from small cemeteries and isolated positions east and north of Ypres. There are now 598 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in the extension. 137 of the burials are unidentified and there are special memorials to 16 servicemen known or believed to be buried among them. Second World War burials number 43, of which 13 are unidentified. The extension was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

No. of Identified Casualties: 139

[Will O'Brien]

A copy of William's Online MIC index entry can be seen here