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Jenny visits the monument to The Hertfordshire Regiment, and talks about her Grandad's World War 1 history. We follow on with a visit to Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth Graves Commission site in the world.
Charles Chapman (1892-1965)
I have been investigating for ages where my Grandad was captured during WW1. He was a private in the Hertfordshire Regiment and joined in 1915.
Last year I discovered he was wounded and captured at The Third Battle of Ypres/Ieper on 31st July 1917 when nearly 75% of the other ranks were either killed, wounded or captured. 132 were missing of which one was my grandad Charles Chapman.
I have now found the German records (trying to translate some of the words) but what we have found is:
1. He was wounded and captured near Ypres/Ieper on 31st July 1917.
2. He was taken to a military hospital in Roesalare (Roulers) Belgium as he had a shrapnel wound in his left leg (can confirm he still suffered from that when I knew him).
3. He was taken to a POW camp in LIMBURG in November 1917.
Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of the First World War in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. It is the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world, for any war. The cemetery and its surrounding memorial are located outside of Passchendale, near Zonnebeke in Belgium.
The name "Tyne Cot" is said to come from the Northumberland Fusiliers, seeing a resemblance between the many German concrete pill boxes on this site and typical Tyneside workers' cottages (Tyne cots). (Wikipedia)
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