Name: |
Frank
Gilbert Batchelor |
Birth Place: |
Ealing |
Residence: |
Ealing |
Death Date: |
5 Apr 1917 |
Death Location: |
Balkans |
Enlistment Location: |
Ealing |
Rank: |
Private |
Regiment: |
London Regiment |
Battalion: |
19th (County of London) Battalion (St. Pancras) |
Number: |
613910 |
Type of Casualty: |
Died of wounds |
Theatre of War: |
Balkan Theatre |
Comments: |
Formerly 3813, 25Th Cyclist Battalion. |
[Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919]
In Memory of
Private FRANK GILBERT BATCHELOR
3813, London Regiment (Cyclists) transf. to (613910) 2nd/19th Bn., London Regiment
who died age 19 on 05 April 1917
Son of Henry George and Louisa Batchelor, of 62A, Lawrence Rd., Ealing, London.
Remembered with honour Karasouli Military Cemetery,
Greece
. Grave Ref. D. 805.
Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Karasouli Military Cemetery,
Greece
.
The cemetery was begun in September 1916 for the
use of casualty clearing stations on the Doiran front. At the Armistice,
it contained about 500 burials but was greatly increased when graves were
brought in from the following cemeteries: Hadzi Bari Mah Military Cemetery
(moved April 1919) - used from 25 August to 17 September 1917 contained 61
burials, 46 of them men of the 10th Hampshires and 2nd Gloucesters, who
captured an enemy salient on 1 September.
Caussica
Military
Cemetery
(moved November 1920) - begun in February 1917 and at the Armistice
contained 62 burials from field ambulances. This cemetery was itself
enlarged when graves were brought in from surrounding burial grounds in
February 1919.
Kalinova
Military
Cemetery
(moved December 1920) - used by field ambulances from October 1917 to
September 1918 and at the Armistice contained 52 burials from field
ambulances. This cemetery was itself enlarged when graves were brought in
from surrounding burial grounds in February 1919. The cemetery now
contains 1,421 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 56 being
unidentified.
The cemetery is near the town of
Polikastro
(formerly Karasouli) which lies some 56 kilometres from Thessalonika,
between the River Vardas and the south end of
Lake
Ardzan
, in the Department of Pellis. The cemetery is on the road to Kalinova on
the edge of the village, behind the football stadium, and is next to the
Civil
Cemetery
.
[Courtesy of
Commonwealth War Graves Commission]
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