Memorials and cemeteries

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Soldiers with close Langholm connections who died as casualties in 1915 are remembered on memorials or are buried in cemeteries in Belgium, France, Greece, Turkey and the UK.

Belgium

Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, 5 km from Ypres

Harry Robinson, 9 June, from shrapnel wound on 6 June

Menin Gate memorial, Ypres

John Wright, 30 September, near Hooge, Belgium

France

Le Touret memorial, 6 km from Neuve Chapelle

James Thomson, 11 March, Neuve Chapelle
David Bell, 9 May, Aubers Ridge

Loos memorial, 6 km from Lens

Joseph Borthwick, 25 September, Loos
John Comrie, 25 September, Loos
William Elliot, 25 September, Loos
James MacKnight, 25 September, Loos
Isaac Scott, 25 September, Loos
James Scott, 25 September, Loos
David Thomson, 25 September, Loos
Frank Thomson, 25 September, Loos

Sainte Marie Cemetery, Le Havre

Robert McCleary, 23 July

Greece

East Mudros Military Cemetery, 1 km from Moudros, island of Lemnos, North Aegean

William Maxwell, 5 June from wounds from Gallipoli, on Hospital Ship Ascania

Turkey

Helles memorial, 1 km from Seddülbahir at end of Gallipoli peninsula

James Dalgliesh, 6 June, Third Battle of Krithia?
David Wallace, 9 August 1915, Sari Bair? (August offensive)