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Grove Road Cemetery, Harrogate,
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, England, was formerly known as Harrogate Cemetery. It was established in 1864 after the spa town expanded and the graveyard at Christ Church became full. The cemetery once had a pair of chapels with spires, designed by
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. Although they were admired by local residents who felt it enhanced the town view, they were demolished in 1958. However the lodge and gates, also designed by Sorby, remain. The cemetery contains more than thirty military graves and memorials of those who died in service, including those who did heroic deeds, those who suffered accidents, and those who died of the 1918 influenza, many of them in their twenties or thirties. They include the grave of Sergeant Major Robert Johnston, who took part in the
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. There is also the "Bilton Boys" monument to eleven soldiers from Bilton and High Harrogate, who died in the
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. There are various elaborate memorials in the cemetery, dedicated to the town's worthies, such as Robert Ackrill,
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, Richard Ellis and David Simpson, who contributed much to the town, besides gravestones of significant local artists, architects and historians. Also of interest are the gravestones of former slave
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and long-distance kayaker Fridel Dalling-Hay. Grove Road Cemetery has suffered several issues in the past three decades, such as the death of six-year-old Reuben Powell, who was killed by a falling tombstone while playing there. The incident initiated the felling of thousands of cemetery memorials across England, which continued for several years until the panic ceased and councils were advised to use discretion regarding historical monuments and consideration of the bereaved. There has also been an issue of dog-fouling across the graveyard.


Early history

By 1861, Harrogate was a growing town which needed a second cemetery in addition to the one attached to Christ Church. On 20 June 1861 the Harrogate
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discussed the matter at the Town Hall, and approved the site between the present Grove Road, and the line of the former
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. The site for Harrogate Cemetery (later to be called Grove Road Cemetery) was purchased in 1862. The commissioners specified "two chapels, a lodge nda surrounding wall with gates". It was to be laid out as per their instructions, with the western half of the plot reserved for
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interments, and the eastern half for
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burials. The competition for the design was announced in August 1862, and
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won a premium of £20 for his design of "delightful little gothic buildings". The total cost by 1863 was £5,000 ().


Chapels and lodge

The cemetery once had two chapels with spires, designed by Thomas Charles Sorby (1836–1924) of London, at a cost of £5,000. The chapel doors faced roughly south towards the main graveyard area, with the cemetery gates on Grove Road behind the two buildings.
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laid the
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for the non-denominational chapel ''(the right hand one in the picture)'' on 23 May 1863. One of the ministers who spoke at the ceremony was Rev. John Henry Gavin, the first minister of West Park Congregational Church, Harrogate. Gavin was to be buried there himself at age 38 in 1868. Having processed from the National School to the cemetery with interested parties including eleven clergymen and various Burial Board members, the
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half of the cemetery and the Anglican chapel ''(on the left in the picture)'' on 23 April 1864. Although the Harrogate Historical Society noted that the chapels formed an "attractive feature in the landscape", they were both demolished in 1958 to create more burial space. The lodge was sold following a resolution by Harrogate Borough Council in 2016.


21st-century events


Graveyard incident

At 7:30pm on Friday, 7 July 2000, six-year-old Reuben Powell died when playing in Grove Road Cemetery with "many" other children. A , hundred-year-old gravestone "fell to the ground, trapping him underneath ... it took three men to lift the slab off Reuben's body". Safety officers said later that, "only a small push or tug would have been needed to dislodge the heavy sandstone slab". There had been previous such incidents in graveyards, but it was this one which had far-reaching consequences. Harrogate Council had already carried out a safety survey of Grove Road Cemetery in 1999. This was "part of a memorial safety audit on all ten council-run cemetery sites in Harrogate". In consequence, the council had been "carrying out a programme of improving safety in cemeteries
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was expected to take several years". Soon after the incident, Councillor Michael Johnston said, "Parents should discourage their children from playing in graveyards". An enquiry into the incident was instigated. The inquest took place on 18 April 2001. The coroner Jeremy Cave ruled that it was an
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, and said that he "hoped lessons will be learned". Councils then feared a "legal test case over unsafe gravestones", because the child's parents had said that, "the council had failed to act soon enough to prevent their son's death, and possibly others". Harrogate Council hastened to speed up their five-year safety programme in cemeteries, and it promptly "had 6,000 potentially unsafe slabs placed on the ground". The incident at Grove Road Cemetery affected many other graveyards, whose gravestones were soon lying flat in response to Coroner Cave's ruling that lessons should be learned. For example, at
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, many of its hundreds of gravestones were uprooted and laid down, causing distress to the bereaved of the parish. However its congregation, assisted by the researches of Alastair Dinsdale, argued that the safety problem had been caused by modern
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which was soon weakened by weathering. They advocated a return to the 19th-century, deep, gravel-filled trench, into which the stone was "battered" in, making it as "solid as a rock". They said the solution was urgent because "If they are left face upwards the water and ice gets into the inscriptions and damages them". Following the Grove Road Cemetery incident, an improvement notice was served on Harrogate Council, "requiring it to accelerate its memorial testing programme". Seeing this, many councils feared claims of maladministration if they did not lay down their gravestones quickly. A 2010 study by Luke Bennett and Carolyn Gibbeson suggested that some over-zealous councils, possibly spurred on by the insurance industry, had risked damaging historical artefacts and distressing the bereaved, because the monuments were left lying and were not reinstated. On some occasions there had been complaints, by the bereaved and by newspapers, of desecration. By 2010 the panic was subsiding. The
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(HSE), which had advised the laying down of the stones, revised its position to say that "cemetery owners should have regard to their own industry best practice on the issue", and later revised it again, to say that "the memorial safety risk should be seen in context – and the issue handled with the ''utmost sensitivity''", supporting a
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, 2006. However, as of 2022, many gravestones were still not reinstated. (For Grove Road Cemetery reference, see 3.2 Memorial safety: a policy history, page 8) Grove Road Cemetery was tidied by the council in 2021, but it still had some monuments lying down.


Dog fouling

In February 2022, a mother tending the 1997 grave of her five-year-old daughter in Grove Road Cemetery was distressed to see a dog "defecating over all the graves". The dog had been brought into the cemetery by its owner who let the animal off its lead and sat on a cemetery bench. Although only
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s are permitted in the cemetery, and other dogs are banned by Harrogate Council signs, as of 2022 there were "multiple complaints of fouling" on the site by dogs who were let off their leads. Council dog wardens responded:
Please remember this is not an area for walking your dog. It is a graveyard where people will want to pay their respects to their loved ones. Please be considerate of this ... Our aim is to keep the district clear of dog fouling and stray dogs through an effective cleaning regime, encouragement, education and enforcement of responsible dog ownership. We regularly clean up badly fouled public areas and streets and maintain more than 250 dog waste bins and 1,000 litter bins.


Bilton Boys War Memorial

In 2018, the "Bilton Boys" monument to eleven soldiers of Bilton and High Harrogate, who were killed during the First World War, was discovered by
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Paul Haslam in the undergrowth of Grove Road Cemetery. It had originally stood in the grounds of the former
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chapel in Grove Road, and had been relocated across the road to the cemetery when the chapel was converted into
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. The white marble monument was in a degraded and dismantled condition, lying "almost forgotten" on a
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, with its bronze soldier figure missing. Following a campaign by Haslam, the monument was restored at an estimated cost of £25,000, and reinstated inside the cemetery. Its bronze soldier was replaced with a cap. Wreaths were laid on the monument on
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, 2021. The names recorded on the monument are: Fred W.C. Horner, Reginald Jones, Charles V. Bell, John W. Fishburn, Percie Balme, Willie Hutchinson, Herbert Gibson, Geoffrey G. Hewson, Henry M. Partridge, C.A. Arrowsmith, and Reginald Burnett.


Individual military memorials

Grove Road Cemetery contains 37 identified casualties from the
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World Wars, including at least 32 Commonwealth war graves relating to the First World War, and four from the Second World War, plus other military graves and memorials.


Gustaaf Adolphe Bekaert

Soldaat 1 kl Gustaaf Adolphe Bekaert (25 September 1880 – 4 March 1915), of the 6th Belgian Light Infantry, or
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, a master linen weaver of
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in civil life, is buried in Grove Road Cemetery. He was "struck in the neck and lungs by shrapnel" while defending a fort at
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. He was taken to hospital at
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, then transferred to Harrogate Hospitals, where his cousin was one of his fellow refugees. His decease at Beaulieu Hospital was the first death of a wounded soldier at the Harrogate Military Hospitals. His funeral included a two-and-a-half-hour
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at St Robert's Church, Harrogate, and was the second military funeral of the war, to take place in Harrogate. His wife and child had been left behind in
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. His funeral was attended by "many of the Belgian refugees, as well as many of the Belgian soldiers in the town".
The cortege was preceded by a number of Belgian soldiers from hospitals in the town, at the head of whom floated the Belgian flag, surmounted by a
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of black
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. About a 100 Belgian refugees, mostly wearing black armlets crossed by the Belgian national colours, took part in the procession. The Mayor of Harrogate was among those who followed ... The procession from ( St Robert's Catholic Church) to the cemetery was headed by the
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band playing the ''Dead March'' in ''Saul''. Volleys were fired over the grave by a detachment of the Yorkshire Hussars, and the buglers gave ''
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''.


Lieutenant Donald Simpson Bell

In 2016, a privately owned memorial stone dedicated to First World War casualty Lieutenant Donald Simpson Bell VC (1890–1916), of the Yorkshire Regiment, was discovered in a dilapidated state, in Grove Road Cemetery, by William Thompson. Bell was a Harrogate-born teacher, and a professional footballer for
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, who won the VC by taking out a machine gun position and killing its operators. He is buried at Gordon Dump Cemetery.


4th Officer Alfred Morris Briglin

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on 25 July 1916, aged 46 years. He is listed on the
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.


Private Alfred Bruce

Private Alfred Bruce ( – 19 February 1915) of the
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drowned aged 21 years in
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. He was one of seven soldiers who died in the gyme, at Morton near
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, while under training to construct pontoons next to deep water in the
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. Although coroner Gamble's verdict at the inquest was "accidentally drowned", Gamble said he "was astounded that the work should be carried out at such a dangerous place". The jury regretted that "Captain Hirst and the men under him were inexperienced in raft-building, that the area of the raft was insufficient for the number of men carried, and that the provision for life-saving was inadequate", although they commended the efforts of those who tried to save them. Bruce had been a promising student, an amateur footballer, a member of two choirs, and a soldier. The funeral took place with military honours on 23 February 1915. "A vast crowd of sympathetic people assembled along King's Road to St Luke's Church", where a "special service" took place. "The firing party from the Yorkshire Hussars lined up in front of the north entrance to the church, and as the cortège drew up presented arms. The coffin was enveloped in the
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and surmounted by a number of choice wreaths". The ''Harrogate Herald'' described Bruce's last journey:
On leaving the church the clergy and surpliced choir headed the procession to the cemetery, which also included a detachment of the 11th Batt. K.O.Y.L.I. stationed at Harrogate, comprising Lieutenant Swann, a sergeant, corporal, and 20 men, the firing party from the
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with reversed arms, buglers from the 11th Batt. K.O.Y.L.I., and a bearer party from the deceased's regiment, the 4th Battalion K.O.Y.L.I. The paths along both sides of Grove Road to the cemetery gates were crowded with people, and a large number gathered in the cemetery. fter the graveside servicethe firing party then shot three rounds over the open grave, and the ''Last Post'' was sounded by the buglers.


3rd Class Walter Ernest Cartman

Air Mechanic 3rd Class Walter Ernest Cartman (31 July 1889 – 26 October 1918) of the
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was from Harrogate, and had been an assistant
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manager before his military career. Sources suggest that he was killed in action, or died of influenza, in the First World War, aged 29.


Private Arthur Halliday

Private Arthur Halliday ( – 2 December 1917), of the
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, had been a
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barber in civil life. He died aged 27 years in No.11 Canadian General Hospital, Moore Barracks, Shorncliffe, Kent. He had been sent home from the
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after receiving a "gunshot wound in the back". He recovered physically, but was transferred from the Bromley Convalescent Hospital with "a neurasthetic condition, and required observation as to his nervous condition". During World War I, being "shot in the back" was a synonym for cowardice (which today might be understood to be
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), and Halliday "begged very hard not to be sent home" to Canada. At the Canadian General Hospital he made several attempts at suicide, first with poison, and then by taking a razor from a fellow patient and cutting his own throat. The inquest returned a verdict of "suicide whilst temporarily insane". Note: the inquest gives Halliday's age at death as 27 years.


Private Albert Ernest Hart

Private Albert Ernest Hart (1880 – 5 May 1917) of the Army Service Corps (ASC), worked for Harrogate Gas Company and was a member of the Harrogate Temperance Band for twenty years. He joined the ASC in January 1917, and in May he was still in training in the south of England. He died aged 37 years at Leeds railway station on his way home to Mayfield Terrace, Harrogate, on leave. The inquest found that he had died of coma-
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, with a judgement of natural causes. He left a widow and children who had no other support.


Captain Henry Hall Jackson

The career military man, and Harrogate-born, Captain Henry Hall Jackson MC (28 October 1890 – 28 November 1918), of the
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, and later of the RAF, is buried in Grove Road Cemetery. He is also listed on the memorial at
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Sergeant Major Robert Johnston

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and took part in the
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. After serving in the military for nearly 23 years, and receiving the
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, Johnston retired to the Cottage Hospital in the spa town of Harrogate to improve his health. Although the population of Harrogate was about 12,000 at the time, Johnston's funeral was attended by around 20,000 people. He was buried in Grove Road Cemetery with full military honours. His 2.5-ton monument, sculpted in Bolton Wood stone by Thomas Potts of Harrogate and funded by subscription, was erected in Grove Road Cemetery in December 1885. The monument was described by the ''Harrogate Advertiser'' as follows: (This link is a faithful copy of the 1885 newspaper text, which is out of copyright.)
At the base of the stone is an elaborate carving of the famous ''War'' picture after Landseer, and the manner in which this particular part of the work has been done reflects the greatest credit upon the sculptor, who has spared neither labour nor pains to give the tombstone an imposing and attractive appearance. It is surmounted by a Maltese cross, and stands nearly eight feet in height. The top is worked in "broken ornament" pattern, and the stone is further beautified by small green granite pillars, placed on each side of the description, which reads as follows: ''This monument was erected by voluntary subscriptions to the memory of Sergeant Major Johnston, late of the 8th KRI Hussars, who died November 28th, 1882, aged 49 years. He was one of the survivors of 'The gallant Six Hundred', in 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', October 25th, 1854, and served in the following engagements with his regiment:
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, Balaclava,
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, Tchernaya, Bulganak, McKenzie's Farm,
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, Tennakale,
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, Chundares, Kotahkeserai,
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, Powree, Sindwhad, Koorwye, Koondrye, and Boordah''.


John William Kirkbride

Private John William Kirkbride ( – 10 April 1916) of the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). Kirkbride, a native of
Starbeck Starbeck is a village and suburb of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. The population of Starbeck Ward taken at the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 census was 6,226. It has many facilities, including Starbeck railway station, which serves ...
, Harrogate, was wounded "in the fighting for the ''international trench'' in France". He died, aged 23 years, in the Birmingham No.1 Hospital, Rubery Hill.


Lance Corporal John Hector Neil Macmillan

Lance Corporal John Hector Neil Macmillan (29 December 1891 – 12 November 1915), of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, is buried in Grove Road Cemetery. He was a hairdresser and choral singer, and a native of Harrogate. He emigrated to Canada, joined the Canadian infantry, and was shot in the head in the trenches in France. He was brought to England, where he died. He was buried with military honours, with a troop of the Yorkshire Hussars joining the cortège, and two buglers playing the ''Last Post'' over the grave. Besides friends and relatives at the funeral were "a large number of members of the congregation of Harrogate Presbyterian Church" and the St Paul's Church Choir.


Sergeant Major Fred Rayner

Sergeant Major Fred Rayner DCM (1880 – 1 May 1918) of the
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won the DCM in January 1917 for "digging men out of demolished trenches under shell fire". He was wounded in France or Belgium during the First World War, and died of his wounds in England, aged 38. He was buried at Grove Road Cemetery with full military honours. He was a clerk from
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and Harrogate who served in the army for 22 years, in the
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and as a Territorial Army instructor.


Willie Rowling

Private James W. "Willie" Rowling ( – 11 December 1918), of the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), was "hit on the head by a piece of heavy German shell" in May 1917, but survived the wound. Rowling died at 1 Montpellier Gardens, Harrogate, aged 31, of
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, after catching
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.


John Stott

Shoeing Smith John Stott ( 1887 – 12 June 1917), of the Army Service Corps (ASC), lived at 38 Birch Grove, Harrogate, and had a wife and four children. He was a
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, and served two years on the staff of the ASC in London. He was then kicked by a horse before being diagnosed with
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, and died in hospital.


Other military memorials

Besides those described in more detail above, others memorialised here who died in service in the First World War are: * Private George Allinson (1884 – 30 November 1918) of the RASC, * Lance Corporal Alfred G. Amos (1879 – 30 January 1917) of the
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. * Sergeant Frederick Henry Botterill (1867 – 5 January 1920) of the
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. * Drummer Reginald Burnett (4 March 1897 – 22 March 1919) of the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). * Rifleman Fred Coates (1887 – 5 October 1917) of the
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. * Petty Officer 1st Class Alfred Cooke (29 June 1874 – 25 April 1918), of the
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, H.M Minesweeper ''St Seiriol''. * Private Harold Elliott (1893 – 24 May 1918) of the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). * Captain John Edward Joseph Farrell (1861 – 19 November 1917) of the
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. Farrell was a native of
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Ireland. He died in Harrogate following an illness. * Private William Firth (1891 – 10 April 1919) of the
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. * Second Lieutenant George Hainsworth RAF, RFC (3 July 1899 – 4 December 1918) of the
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, ( R.N. College, Greenwich), died of influenza. * Private Harry Hainsworth (1890 – 29 November 1918) of the
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. His home address was 41 Dragon Parade, Harrogate, where he lived with his parents. He died aged 28 years of pneumonia, and was buried on 4 December 1918. * Private Silas Harris Jennings (1894 – 28 April 1917). of the West Yorkshire Regiment and the
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. Killed in action in France. Buried or memorialised at Arras Memorial CWGC Cemetery/Memorial Pas de Calais France, and memorialised at Grove Road Cemetery. Silas Jennings was reported missing on 28 April 1917. He was "last seen to '' go over'' with a Lewis gun, having had previously a narrow escape at the Front, where a large shell exploded near him, and he was incarcerated among 20 or 30 bags of sand. With the exception of suffering from shock he, however, appeared to have been none the worse for his mishap.". * Private Walter Johnson (11 July 1896 – 8 November 1918) of the
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. * Private James Mckenna (1899 – 17 March 1920) of the Royal Army Service Corps. * Private Harold L. Metcalfe (1891 – 19 February 1919) of the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). Private Metcalfe was gassed in September 1917, but recovered. * Sapper Ernest W. Middleton (1892 – 16 February 1919) of the
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. * Corporal William Henry Mitchell (1883 – 13 June 1918) of the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). * Private Allan S. Reynard (1894 – 13 March 1920) of the
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. * Sapper Frank Riley (1884 – 24 August 1920) of the Royal Engineers. * Private Charles Ernest Simmonds (12 November 1875 – 18 March 1917) of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. * Private Arthur Henry Wells (1878 – 14 April 1915) of the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). * Private Vernice E. Whitehouse (1896 – 17 November 1918) of the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). * Private Sydney Wilson (1891 – 24 May 1919) of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.


Notable civilian burials and memorials

* Henry Edwin Bown (1845–1881), and his younger brother Arthur Bown (1851–1916), Harrogate architects whose partnership
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designed Harrogate's Jubilee Memorial and The Harrogate Club house. * Robert Ackrill (1817–1894), who was the editor, then owner, of the ''Harrogate Herald'' newspaper, and several others. It was Ackrill who, in 1884 as Charter Mayor, met Harrogate's
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on its train from London, and brought it in celebratory procession to the town centre, formally allowing the town to form its own
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. * Fridel Dalling-Hay, née Meyer (1908–1982), a
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n born refugee from
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and a long-distance sea-kayaker who, in the 1930s, paddled to
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from Germany and attempted long-distance records along the British coast. She ran Beans Toy Shop in Harrogate's old Empire Theatre building, in the 1950s. *
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, a builder,
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and
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, who "shaped the
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and architectural appearance of central Harrogate" and became rich enough (and was witty enough) to name his mansion Vanderbilt Court. * Richard Ellis (1821–1895), a builder and mayor of Harrogate, who improved and built much of the town, joining the villages of Low and High Harrogate into a single town, and helping to create the town council in 1884. *
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(1849–1907), a
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,
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,
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and
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. * Rev. John Henry Gavin (1831–1868), the first minister at West Park United Reformed Church, Harrogate. *
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(1818 –1895), an English antiquarian and poet, and a historian of
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. *
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(1821–1904), a Harrogate
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and
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, and patron of sculptor W.J.S. Webber. * Sir John Ernest Neale (1890–1975), historian and biographer.Short biography of Neale, in Neale, J. (1971) ''Queen Elizabeth I''. Pelican. *
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(1825–1905), a clergyman and follower of the
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, who seceded from
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to the
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in 1853. He was rector of St Robert's Church, Harrogate between 1889 and 1905. *
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(1854 – 26 April 1915), a former Afro-American slave, and member of the Fisk Jubilee Choir. He was born in
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, USA. He visited Harrogate with the choir in 1877, settled in the town in 1891 or 1905, and published an autobiography, ''Tom'', in 1907. His memorial cross is inscribed: "Late Jubilee Singer, Fisk University". * Daniel Schwarz (1851–1885), a travelling bandleader with the Schwarz Band, from
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, Germany, who died suddenly while visiting the town with the band. He was the father of Otto Schwarz who later brought the Bavarian String Band to play in Harrogate bandstands between 1897 and 1914. * Isaac Thomas Shutt (1818–1879), an architect, a farmer, and the proprietor of the Old Swan Hotel,
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. He designed the
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. In partnership with Alfred Hill Thompson he co-designed the Church of All Saints, Harlow Hill.''Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale Herald'', Saturday 22 March 1879 p4 col6: Death of Mr Isaac Thomas Shutt
/ref> * David Simpson (1860–1931), a builder, a
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, the first elected honorary Freeman of the Borough of Harrogate, mayor of Harrogate four times, county
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, justice of the peace, and a member of the Harrogate Town Council for 34 years. * John Smith (1792–1866), a rich banker of Harrogate who was born in
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but lived at Burley House, 12 Clarendon Road,
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(a Grade II listed building), and funded the building of Belvedere House, Harrogate. *
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(1800 – 2 March 1883), miser of
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. *
William John Seward Webber William John Seward Webber (January 1842 – c. 17 March 1919) was an English sculptor who created civic statuary, and bust (sculpture), busts of national heroes and local worthies, in marble. He sculpted the statue of Queen Victoria for the Go ...
(1842–1919) a sculptor who created busts of local worthies, and the statue of
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in Harrogate's Jubilee Memorial. He is buried in Grove Road Cemetery, but has no gravestone.


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Helles Memorial The Helles Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial near Sedd el Bahr, in Turkey, on the headland at the tip of the Gallipoli peninsula overlooking the Dardanelles. It includes an obelisk which is over high. The memorial i ...
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Basra Memorial The Basra Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial near Zubayr, Iraq. The memorial commemorates 40,682 Commonwealth forces (99% Indians) members who died during the Mesopotamian Campaign, from the Autumn of 1914 to the end of ...
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Port Tewfik Memorial The Port Tewfik Memorial (also known as the Indian War Memorial) was originally situated at Port Tewfik (or Port Taufiq), now called Suez Port, on the Suez Canal. It was unveiled in May 1926 for the Imperial War Graves Commission (now Commonwealt ...
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Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery, Hong Kong is the main Jewish cemetery in Happy Valley, Hong Kong. The cemetery is located on Shan Kwong Road and is managed by Jones Lang Lasalle Management Services. History The burial ground was opened in 1855 by ...
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Hong Kong Cemetery Hong Kong Cemetery, formerly Hong Kong (Happy Valley) Cemetery and before that Hong Kong Colonial Cemetery, is one of the early Christian cemeteries in Hong Kong dating to its colonial era beginning in 1845. It is located beside the racecour ...
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India Gate The India Gate (formerly known as All India War Memorial) is a war memorial located near the Rajpath (officially called Kartavya Path, Kartavya path) on the eastern edge of the "ceremonial axis" of New Delhi, India, New Delhi. It stands as a m ...
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Labuan War Cemetery Labuan War Cemetery () is a Commonwealth World War II graveyard in Labuan, Malaysia. The cemetery Many of the personnel buried in this cemetery, including Indian and Australian troops, were killed during the Japanese invasion of Borneo or th ...
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Rabaul (Bita Paka) War Cemetery The Rabaul (Bita Paka) War Cemetery, established in 1945, is located near the site of the former Bita Paka wireless station south of the city of Rabaul, New Britain, in Papua New Guinea. The cemetery is managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Com ...
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Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery Port Moresby (Bomana) Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery dating from World War II near Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The cemetery contains the graves of those who died in the fighting in the former Territory of Papua and ...
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Alamein Memorial The Alamein Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial in the El Alamein War Cemetery, El Alamein, Egypt. The memorial commemorates 11,866 Commonwealth forces members who died during World War II. The memorial was designed by ...
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Askari Monument The Askari Monument or Dar es Salaam African Memorial in Kivukoni Ward in Ilala District of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, is a memorial to the askari (African soldiers) who fought in the British campaign against the German Army in East Africa in W ...
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Malta Memorial The Malta Memorial is a war memorial monument to the 2,298 Commonwealth aircrew who lost their lives in the various Second World War air battles and engagements around the Mediterranean, whilst serving with the Commonwealth Air Forces flying fro ...
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German War Graves Commission The German War Graves Commission (, ) is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of German war graves in Europe and North Africa. Its objectives are acquisition, maintenance and care of German war graves; tending to next of kin; youth and ed ...
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American Battle Monuments Commission The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) is an Independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the United States government that administers, operates, and maintains permanent U.S. military cemeteries, memoria ...
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Office of Australian War Graves The Office of Australian War Graves (OAWG) is a branch within the Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs. The branch was initially a stand-alone agency, formed 1 January 1975. In 1980, the ''War Graves Act 1980 (Cth)'' formalised t ...
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Fabian Ware Major-General Sir Fabian Arthur Goulstone Ware (17 June 186928 April 1949) was a British educator, journalist, and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC), now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). He also served as ...
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Frederic Kenyon Sir Frederic George Kenyon (15 January 1863 – 23 August 1952) was an English palaeographer and biblical and classical scholar. He held a series of posts at the British Museum from 1889 to 1931. He was also the president of the British Academy ...
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Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. He was born in British Raj, British India, which inspired much ...
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Herbert Baker Sir Herbert Baker (9 June 1862 – 4 February 1946) was an English architect remembered as the dominant force in South African architecture for two decades, and a major designer of some of New Delhi's most notable government structures. He was ...
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Reginald Blomfield Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield (20 December 1856 – 27 December 1942) was a prolific British architect, garden designer and author of the Victorian and Edwardian period. Early life and career Blomfield was born at Bow rectory in Devon, w ...
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Edwin Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens ( ; 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials ...
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Charles Holden Charles Henry Holden (12 May 1875 – 1 May 1960) was an English architect best known for designing many London Underground stations during the 1920s and 1930s, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London's headquarters at 55 Broadwa ...
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Robert Lorimer Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer, Order of the British Empire, KBE (4 November 1864 – 13 September 1929) was a prolific Scotland, Scottish architect and furniture designer noted for his sensitive restorations of historic houses and castles, f ...
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John James Burnet Sir John James Burnet (31 May 1857 – 2 July 1938) was a Scotland, Scottish Edwardian architecture, Edwardian architect who was noted for a number of prominent buildings in Glasgow and London. He was the son of the architect John Burnet (arch ...
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Edward Prioleau Warren Edward Prioleau Warren (30 October 1856 – 23 November 1937) was a British architect and archaeologist. Life He was born at Cotham, Bristol, the fifth son of Algernon William Warren, JP. Sir Thomas Herbert Warren was his elder brother. He was e ...
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Edward Maufe Sir Edward Brantwood Maufe, RA, FRIBA (12 December 1882 – 12 December 1974) was an English architect and designer. He built private homes as well as commercial and institutional buildings, and is remembered chiefly for his work on place ...
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Hubert Worthington Sir John Hubert Worthington (4 July 1886 – 26 July 1963) was an English architect. Early life Worthington was born at Alderley Edge, near Stockport, the youngest son of architect Thomas Worthington. He was educated at Sedbergh School fr ...
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Louis de Soissons Louis Emanuel Jean Guy de Savoie-Carignan de Soissons Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, CVO Royal Academy, RA FRIBA (1890–1962) was the younger son of Charles de Savoie-Carignan, Count of Soissons, Count de Soissons (with claimed desce ...
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Philip Hepworth Philip Dalton Hepworth (12 March 1888 – 21 February 1963) was a British architect. He studied in both the UK and France, at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and the École des Beaux-Arts, and returned to work as an architec ...
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William Harrison Cowlishaw William Harrison Cowlishaw (1869–1957) was a British architect of the European Arts and Crafts school and a follower of William Morris."William Harrison Cowlishaw." ''A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture''. Oxford Universit ...
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Thomas Smith Tait Thomas Smith Tait (18 June 1882 – 18 July 1954) was a Scottish Modern architecture, modernist architect. He designed a number of buildings around the world in Art Deco and Streamline Moderne styles, notably St. Andrew's House (the headquarte ...
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Eric Kennington Eric Henri Kennington (12 March 1888 – 13 April 1960) was an English sculptor, artist and illustrator, and an official British official war artists, war artist in both of the world wars. As a war artist, Kennington specialised in depictions ...
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Gilbert Ledward Gilbert Ledward (23 January 1888 – 21 June 1960), was an English sculptor. He won the British Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1913, and in World War I served in the Royal Garrison Artillery and later as a war artist. He was professor of sc ...
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Charles Sargeant Jagger Charles Sargeant Jagger (17 December 1885 – 16 November 1934) was a British sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically prese ...
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William Reid Dick Sir William Reid Dick, (13 January 1878 – 1 October 1961) was a Scottish sculptor known for his innovative stylisation of form in his monument sculptures and simplicity in his portraits. He became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1921 an ...
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Ernest Gillick Ernest George Gillick (19 November 1874 – 25 September 1951) was a British sculpture, sculptor. Life Gillick was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, on 19 November 1874, the son of a tailor. The family moved to Nottingham, where Gillick was apprenti ...
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Laurence Arthur Turner Laurence Arthur Turner FSA (9 July 1864 – 4 October 1957) was an English artisan and master craftsman. Career The brother of the architect Thackery Turner, was a leading figure in woodcarving and ornate stonemasonry, and undertook many presti ...
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Walter Gilbert Walter Gilbert (born March 21, 1932) is an American biochemist, physicist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate. Education and early life Walter Gilbert was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 21, 1932, into a Jewish family, the so ...
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Robert Anning Bell Robert Anning Bell (14 April 1863 – 27 November 1933) was an English artist and designer. Early life Robert Anning Bell was born in London on 14 April 1863, the son of Robert George Bell, a cheesemonger, and Mary Charlotte Knight. He studied ...
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Ferdinand Victor Blundstone Ferdinand Victor Blundstone (1882–1951) was a Swiss-born sculptor who worked in England. His father was Charles Blundstone, an India rubber merchant who was born in Manchester, England. He studied at the South London Technical Art School and R ...
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Gilbert Bayes Gilbert William Bayes (4 April 1872 – 10 July 1953) was an English sculptor. His art works varied in scale from medals to large architectural clocks, monuments and equestrian statues and he was also a designer of some note, creating chess piec ...