Medal card : Pte., 25th London Regt. Medal roll : 25th
London R. Pte., Attached to Infanyry Base Depot 1(a) France 21.7.17 to
8.8.17.,
Posted to 10th London R. 1(a) France 9.8.17 to 22.9.17. K.A. 22.9.17.
'Soldiers Died in the Great
War 1914-19'. Under the heading
"25th (County of London) Battalion (Cyclists)".
Metayer, Frederick, born Euston, resident Mornington
Place, enlisted London, 741487, killed in action, France & Flanders,
22 Sep 1917.
In Memory of
Private Frederick METAYER
741481, 2nd/25th Bn., London Regiment (Cyclists)
who died age 23 on 22 September 1917
Son of Henri Metayer; husband of Lily Theresa Metayer, of 38D, Fitz Neal St., Old Oak Estate, East Acton, London.
Remembered with honour Tyne Cot Cemetery, Grave Ref. XIII. A. 29.
Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Liz Jeffery placing a tribute on the grave of
Frederick Metayer at Tyne Cot.
TYNE
COT
CEMETERY
, Zonnebeke,
West-Vlaanderen
,
Belgium
'Tyne Cot' or 'Tyne Cottage' was the name given by the Northumberland
Fusiliers to a barn which stood near the level crossing on the
Passchendaele-Broodseinde road. The barn, which had become the centre of five
or six German blockhouses, or pill-boxes, was captured by the 3rd Australian
Division on 4 October 1917, in the advance on Passchendaele. One of these
pill-boxes was unusually large and was used as an advanced dressing station
after its capture. From 6 October to the end of March 1918, 343 graves were
made, on two sides of it, by the 50th (Northumbrian) and 33rd Divisions, and
by two Canadian units. The cemetery was in German hands again from 13 April to
28 September, when it was finally recaptured, with Passchendaele, by the
Belgian Army.
TYNE
COT
CEMETERY
was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when remains were brought in from the
battlefields of Passchendaele and Langemarck, and from a few small burial
grounds, including the following:
IBERIAN
SOUTH
CEMETERY
and
IBERIAN
TRENCH
CEMETERY
, LANGEMARCK, 1,200 metres North of Frezenberg, close to a farm called by the
Army "Iberian". These contained the graves of 30 soldiers from the
United Kingdom
who fell in August-September, 1917, and March, 1918.
KINK
CORNER
CEMETERY
, ZONNEBEKE, on the road to Frezenberg, containing the graves of 14 soldiers
from the
United Kingdom
, nine from
Canada
and nine from
Australia
, who fell in September-November, 1917.
LEVI
COTTAGE
CEMETERY
, ZONNEBEKE, near the road to Langemarck, containing the graves of ten
soldiers from the
United Kingdom
, eight from
Canada
and three from
Australia
, who fell in September-November, 1917.
OOSTNIEUWKERKE
GERMAN
CEMETERY
, in the
village
of
Oostnieuwkerke
, containing the graves of two soldiers from the
United Kingdom
.
PRAET-BOSCH
GERMAN
CEMETERY
, VLADSLOO, in the forest on the road from Kortewilde to Leke. Here were
buried six officers of the R.F.C. and R.A.F. who fell in 1917-18.
STADEN
GERMAN
CEMETERY
, on the South-East side of the road to Stadenberg, containing the graves of
14 soldiers from the
United Kingdom
and ten from
Canada
who fell in 1915-1917. WATERLOO FARM CEMETERY, PASSCHENDAELE, 650 metres
North-East of 's Gravenstafel, containing the graves of ten soldiers from
Canada, seven from the United Kingdom and two from New Zealand, who fell in
1917-18.
ZONNEBEKE
BRITISH
CEMETERY
No.2, on the road between Zonnebeke and Broodseinde, in which the Germans
buried 18 men of the 2nd Buffs and 20 of the 3rd Royal Fusiliers who fell in
April, 1915. It is now the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world in
terms of burials. At the suggestion of King George V, who visited the cemetery
in 1922, the Cross of Sacrifice was placed on the original large pill-box.
There are three other pill-boxes in the cemetery. There are now 11,956
Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in
Tyne
Cot
Cemetery
. 8,369 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to
more than 80 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other
special memorials commemorate 20 casualties whose graves were destroyed by
shell fire. There are 4 German burials, 3 being unidentified. The cemetery was
designed by Sir Herbert Baker. The TYNE COT MEMORIAL forms the north-eastern
boundary of
Tyne
Cot
Cemetery
and commemorates nearly 35,000 servicemen from the
United Kingdom
and
New Zealand
who died in the Ypres Salient after 16 August 1917 and whose graves are not
known. The memorial stands close to the farthest point in
Belgium
reached by Commonwealth forces in the First World War until the final advance
to victory. The memorial was designed by Sir Herbert Baker with sculpture by F
V Blundstone.
Tyne
Cot
Cemetery
is located 9 Kms north-east of
Ieper
town centre, on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg
(N332). There are two separate registers for this site -
one for the cemetery and one for the memorial. The cemetery register will be
found in the gatehouse as you enter the cemetery, and the memorial register
will be found in the left hand rotunda of the memorial as you face the
memorial.
[Courtesy of
Commonwealth War Graves Commission]
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