Our 23 War & Remembered Graves

The Rehoboth has been officially designated as a Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery since the 1920’s and is one of 13,000 registered locations in the United Kingdom; it contains eight registered War Graves of people who died in the United Kingdom.

In addition we have identified fifteen Remembered Graves that carry an inscription to a family member who died in service overseas.

One of our first joint actions with the CWGC was to have a “Commonwealth War Graves” sign attached to the right hand gate pillar. Memorial poppies and wreaths are placed on the gates and graves during the annual Remembrance period in October/November, in conjunction with the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.

On 11th  November 2019 our first Armistice Day service was held, officiated by Reverend Paul Tudge and with Regimental standards on display. Click here to view the BBC’s coverage of Armistice Day at Farsley Rehoboth 2019.

Thursday, November 11th 2021, saw a well attended and moving remembrance service for Armistice Day attended by Jon Hammond-Booth, DL. Deputy Lord Lieutenant, West Yorkshire and officiated by Reverend Gareth Howles with Bugler, Darren Walker playing. We had young attendees from Valley View School, All Stars Nursey and students from West SILC, all of whom participated in wreath laying and the placement of poppies on our War and Remembered Graves.Our gate poppies and two framed poems by Emma Hogarth have attracted a lot of interest and visitors.  Emma read her new remembrance poem during the service, this is also shown below.

To quote Jon Hammond-Booth DL:

“An honour to attend @farsleyrehoboth on Armistice Day  on behalf of @LordLtWY to commemorate the fallen. A touching service and hugely impressed with the way that volunteers have cleared up an overgrown cemetery into something very special.”

Please view the video of our 2019 Armistice Day service, slideshows from our 2021 and 2022 Armistice Day services are shown in “News Items” Our printed Orders of Service for 2019, 2021 and 2022 are included below.

Our first War Grave, that of Arthur Hainsworth Wade is just inside the entrance, and features a plaque from his work colleagues in Australia. We are grateful to a CWGC team who re-gilded the lettering on this grave in summer 2019.

Our online database has many biographical details of our war dead who can be searched for under surname or plot number shown below;

B50: Ralph Barrow 22, 19/12/1941 Stoker 2nd Class HMS Stanley Died at Sea, Atlantic

C63: Frederick George Calverley 25, 27/04/1916
Pte 24819 1st Garrison Batt. WY Regiment (P. of Wales's Own)
Died at Sea, Malta

B344: Dennison Coates 21,  03/07/1941
Died on war service in Switzerland RASC S/132832
Believed to be escaped POW

B690: Ernest A Cole 38, 08/05/1917
Pte 541128033, Comms. Supply Column ASC, died Salonika, Greece

C60: Harry Farrar Duffield 23, 22/03/1918
Pte 204616 9th Bn Died of  Wounds West Riding Rgt. Arras Memorial, France

B211A: Frederick Heeley 18, 24/06/1917
107321 Gunner W/8th Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Field Artillery, Belgium

A442: Reuben Hustler  35, 29/05/1917
38830 Private 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment, France

A455: Arthur Illingworth 19, 11/11/1918
Private West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wale’s Own) Killed in France

B319: Robert Violet May 22, 03/05/1917
Private 241888 2nd/6th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment, France

B384: Frank Charles Philips 20, 28/10/1914 Private 8249 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards, Killed in Belgium

B69: Harold J Suddards 21, 22/02/1917
Kings Own Scottish Borderers, Belgium

D1087: Leonard Wilkinson 34, 23/04/1917
Killed in action, Tunisia, North Africa, Royal Engineers

D924: Raymond Wood 19, 24/04/1917
Pte 20103 1st Battalion Kings Own Scottish Borderers.
DOW, Buried Arras, France

C85: Thomas Wood 29, 3/07/1916
Pte 5534  Duke of Wellingtons ( West Riding Regiment)
Killed in action, France

A22: Thomas Fairbank Wood 27, 13/09/1944
4758376 L/Cpl, Killed in action, Italy 6th Battalion, York & Lancashire

D956: Walter W Crosby 29, 28/01/1943
L/Cpl 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. Died on Home Front

B526: Richard Dowgill 31, 13/04/1918
L/Cpl 35729 KOYLI. Died on Home Front

D840: Maurice Fieldhouse 25, 01/07/1941
Sgt Pilot, Royal Canadian Airforce. Died on Home Front

B58: Frederick W. Ford 30, 29/04/1919
Sgt 17/193 West Yorks Rgt. Died on Home Front

B57: Edgar Lee 18, 18/02/1919
Pte M/4094333 RASC. Died on Home Front

B90: Matthew William Lee 42, 21/12/1916
Cpl 113657 Royal Engineers. Died on Home Front

D839: Fred Marshall 45, 03/02/1946
Cpl 13027962 Pioneer Corps. Died on Home Front

C203A: Arthur Hainsworth Wade 18, 07/091917
Gunner, Australian Artillery. Died on Home Front

The News section also includes the history of a number of our war dead, find some of our featured articles below…

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