DELVILLE WOOD

LONGUEVAL - SOMME - FRANCE

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BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

Calvados, France

John Edward Empson

MIDDLETON

Grave XIV.L.19.

Son of Edward Empson Middleton, and of Adelaide Mary Middleton, of Rosettenville, Transvaal (Source : C.W.G.C.).

5th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment (69th Brigade, 50th Northumbrian Infantry Division)

Landing on Gold Beach, the Battalion took La Rivière, Vers-sur-Mer, Crepon then reached and occupied the village of Brecy at the end of this famous day, losing almost one hundred men.