Prospect Hill Military Cemetery
Bermuda
Photo : Sean Pol O Creachmhaoil.
For photographs of the memorial faces select here.
During the First World War, Bermuda was garrisoned successively by the 2nd Lincolns, the Royal Canadian Regiment, the 38th Bn. Canadian Infantry, the 163rd Bn. Canadian Infantry and the 2/4th East Yorkshire Regiment. The 3rd Bn. Jamaica War Contingent was there between March and May 1916.
Prospect Hill Military Cemetery contains 17 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and four from the Second World War.
The War Memorial commmeorates 12 men who served with the East Yorkshire Regiment and who lost their liveswhle serving in Bermuda.
1 soldier who formerly served with the Yorkshire Regiment is buried in this cemetery.
Private James Lawton
203953. 2nd/4th Battalion the East Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 6836 the Yorkshire Regiment. Died 10 October 1918.
Born Burnley, Enlisted Accrington, Resided Beverley.
Buried PROSPECT HILL MILITARY CEMETERY.
A photo of Private Lawton is shown on the website Burnley in the Great War.
Photo : Sean Pol O Creachmhaoil.
Photo : Sean Pol O Creachmhaoil.