Ypres 2016 - Prowse Point Cemetery

Prowse Point Military Cemetery

CWGC Prowse Point Military Cemetery 

The Prowse Point cemetery is unique on the Salient for being named after an individual. It is the site of the stand by the 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment and the 1st Bn. Somerset Light Infantry in October 1914. It honours the heroism of a Major Charles Prowse - later Brigadier-General C.B. Prowse, DSO (Somerset Light Infantry) who was killed on the Somme 1st July 1916.

The cemetery was begun by the 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers and the 1st Royal Warwicks, and was in use from November 1914 to April 1918. It contains 231 Commonwealth burials of the First World War.

Private Harry Wilkinson

The most recent burial occurred on 31st of October 2001, when the remains of Private Harry Wilkinson, 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers who was killed 10th November 1914, were laid to rest.

WWI soldier finally laid to rest

 

CWGC Information: Private Harry Wilkinson