Lance Corporal B/203272, 16th Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consorts Own). Died of wounds 23rd March 1918. Aged 24. Born and resident Tideswell, enlisted Buxton. Son of George Esplin, of High St., Tideswell. Formerly C/422. King's Royal Rifle Corps. Buried in ROYE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, Somme, France. Marchelepot British Cemetery Memorial 110.

Note: Roye was in German hands from 30 August 1914 until the French retook it on 17 March 1917. The town was recaptured by the Germans on 26 March 1918 but was evacuated by them on 26 August. The French First Army entered the town the following day. Roye Old British Cemetery was 1.6 kilometres south of the town. It was made in March 1918, by the 53rd Casualty Clearing Station but there was little time to mark the graves before the town was captured by the Germans, who extended this cemetery for the burial of their own dead. In 1920 the Commonwealth graves were removed to Roye New British Cemetery. Roye New British Cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields and from other burial grounds. Almost all of them date from 1918. The cemetery contains 565 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 153 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials are erected to 13 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of 117 casualties buried in Marchelepot British Cemetery and in three German cemeteries, whose graves could not be found. The cemetery also contains the graves of 43 Second World War airmen.

[Served as John Thomas LOMAS, in most records he is recorded this way] Corporal 987, 1st/1st Derbyshire Yeomanry. Killed in action at Gallipoli 21 August 1915. Aged 27. Born and resident Tideswell, Derbyshire, enlisted Bakewell. Son of Joseph Lomas Fletcher and Hannah Hill; brother of Joe Lomas Fletcher (see above); husband of Annie Elizabeth Lomas (nee Buxton) Fletcher, married 7 September 1909 in St John Baptist Church, Tideswell, Derbyshire, father of Elsie Kerry Lomas Fletcher, of Manchester Road, Tideswell. Baptised 24 June 1888 in Tideswell, son of Joseph and Hannah Fletcher, brother of Joe Lomas. In the 1901 census the whole family are recorded under the surname LOMAS, he was aged 12, born Tideswell, Derbyshire, son of Joseph and Hannah Lomas, resident Bell Vue Inn, Market Square, Tideswell, Bakewell, Derbyshire. In the 1901 census the whole family are recorded under the surname LOMAS, he was aged 22, born Tideswell, Derbyshire, a Carter and Carrier, married to Annie Elizabeth Lomas with one daughter, resident Lower Terrace Road, Tideswell, Buxton, Derbyshire. Buried in GREEN HILL CEMETERY, Turkey (including Gallipoli). Plot II. Row F. Grave 23.

Etiher

Walter SINCLAIR, Air Mechanic 2nd Class FAA/SFX. 2700, H.M.S. Fidelity, Royal Navy. Died 1st January 1943. No known grave. Commemorated on LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL, Hampshire. Bay 4, Panel 5.

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Walter SINCLAIR, Able Seaman, S.S. Daxhound (London), Merchant Navy. Died 11th October 1941. Aged 42. Buried in TORSHAVN CEMETERY, Faroe Islands. Grave 120.