Will O'Brien Posted 4 January , 2005 Share Posted 4 January , 2005 As per CWGC Name: HAWORTH Initials: A Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Private Regiment: East Lancashire Regiment Unit Text: 1st/4th Bn. Date of Death: 04/01/1918 Service No: 200040 Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: I. N. 30. Cemetery: CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will O'Brien Posted 4 January , 2005 Author Share Posted 4 January , 2005 & the cemetery info. Cemetery: CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY Country: France Locality: Pas de Calais Location Information: Chocques is 4 kilometres north-west of Bethune on the road to Lillers. When you reach the traffic lights on this road at Chocques, follow the signs for the centre of town and go through the main street, then turn left towards Gonnheim. Take the next turning on the right and the cemetery lies approximately 400 metres down the road on the left. Historical Information: Chocques was occupied by Commonwealth forces from the late autumn of 1914 to the end of the war. The village was at one time the headquarters of I Corps and from January 1915 to April 1918, No 1 Casualty Clearing Station was posted there. Most of the burials from this period are of casualties who died at the clearing station from wounds received at the Bethune front. From April to September 1918, during the German advance on this front, the burials were carried out by field ambulances, divisions and fighting units. The groups of graves of a single Royal Artillery brigade in Plot II, Row A, and of the 2nd Seaforths in II D, and III A, are significant of the casualties of the 4th Division at that time. The big collective grave in VI A contains the remains of 29 soldiers of the 4th King's Liverpool Regiment killed in a troop train in April 1918. The stone memorial in IA is placed behind the graves of eight men of the 3rd Squadron, RFC, killed in a bomb explosion on the aerodrome at Merville in March 1915. After the Armistice, further graves were brought into the cemetery from a number of small cemeteries and isolated sites in the area. Chocques Military Cemetery now contains 1,800 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 134 of then unidentified. There are also 82 German war graves, 47 being unidentified. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. No. of Identified Casualties: 1701 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will O'Brien Posted 4 January , 2005 Author Share Posted 4 January , 2005 Alfred Haworth's online MIC index entry can be seen here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROONAERT Posted 5 January , 2005 Share Posted 5 January , 2005 Nothing mentioned of this date in the Regimental history apart from to say that they were in the line at Cuinchy for a few days before being relieved to billets at Oblinghen. Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROONAERT Posted 5 January , 2005 Share Posted 5 January , 2005 Extra from SDGW.... Alfred Haworth was born and enlisted in Blackburn, Lancs. (The 1/4th therefore being his local battalion) and his cause of death is listed as "Died of Wounds". Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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