Royal Artillery

Northumbrian Gunners

Saturday, 7 May 2016

Ypres 2016 - Lone Tree Cemetery

The Lone Tree Cemetery is located near the Spanbroekmolen Crater on the Messines Ridge. The cemetery contains 88 burials most of whom fell on the first day of the Battle of Messines 7th June 1917.

Six Gunners are buried in the Cemetery.

 
Lone Tree Cemetery
Lone Tree Cemetery looking towards Kemmel
Unknown Soldier            Sjt LC Page                 Gnr WJ Marsh 

CWGC Sjt HLC Page

Sjt Harry Leslie Charles Page
B Battery 173rd Brigade RFA
Died 3rd July 1917 Aged 24
 
 CWGC Gnr WJ Marsh
Gunner WJ Marsh
B Battery 173rd Brigade RFA
Died 3rd July 1917


Sjt PSP Hill      Unknown Soldier          Lt CJ Plunket      

 
Sjt Percy Henry Patrick Hill
B Battery 173rd Brigade RFA
Died 3rd July 1917 Aged 36
Sjt PSP Hill served in the South African Campaign, Zulu Rebellion and German West Africa.
 
Lieutenant Cedric John Plunket
C Battery 123rd Brigade RFA
Died 6th August 1917 Aged 24
 
John Frederick Plunket was born  at Chateau Yonvente, Pleurtuit, France. in 1893. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, and prior to the war served for two years in the Honourable Artillery Co., but had to resign in 1913 on account of ill-health and took up farming in Norfolk. When war broke out he enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery, Territorial Force, and saw active service, being for five months despatch rider. In 1915 he received a commission in the Special Reserve of Officers and again proceeded to the front, where he served until his death.
 
Gnr EL Carty
  
Gunner Edward Leonard Carty
D Battery 46th Brigade
Died 11th July 1917 Aged 19
 
Lt FV Coupland-Smith
 
Lieutenant Frederick Vyvyan Coupland Smith
173rd Brigade RFA
Died 2nd July 1917 Aged 21
 


Frederick Vyvyan Coupland Smithwas born in 1896 in Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire. He was educated at Blundells and a member of the choir. He accompanied his parents to the Holy Land and Egypy in 1913. On the outbreak of war he joined the Army and obtained a commission in the Royal Field Artillery.