Kirknewton Churchyard Section D Row 3 – 10 – Logan/Johnson
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In loving memory of Walter son of James and Mary LOGAN who died July 1st 1890 aged 8 years.
Also Agnes Jane his sister who died Nov 27th 1897 aged 24 years.
Also of Walter JOHNSON their Grandfather who died April 9th 1893 aged 82 years.
Also of Thomas son of the above James and Mary LOGAN who fell in Action in France.
Also Charles Walter who fell in action 5th June 1917 aged 26 years.
Military record
Thomas was married to Bessie Dickie they had one daughter Mary who was born in 1919 and died the same year. The lived in Saskatchewan in Canada
Thomas Logan Private 3rd Bn Coldstream Guards
He is buired in Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner Cuinchy
Grave Reference I.G. 19 6208 3rd Bn., Coldstream Guards who died on Tuesday, 27th April 1915.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery: GUARDS CEMETERY, WINDY CORNER, CUINCHY, Pas de Calais, France
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: I. G. 19.
Historical Information: A little west of Windy Corner was a house used as Battalion Headquarters and Dressing Station. The cemetery grew up beside this house. The original cemetery is now Plots I and II and Rows A to S of Plot III. It was begun by the 2nd Division in January, 1915, and used extensively by the 4th (Guards) Brigade in and after February. It was closed at the end of May, 1916, when it contained 681 graves. After the Armistice it was increased by the concentration of 2,720 graves from the neighbouring battlefields and small cemeteries, and in particular from the battlefields of Neuve-Chapelle, the Aubers Ridge and Festubert. There are now nearly 3,500, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 2,000 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 36 soldiers from the United Kingdom known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials are erected to six soldiers buried in Indian Village North Cemetery, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire, and to five Indian soldiers originally buried in the Guards Cemetery but afterwards cremated. The cemetery covers an area of 10,151 square metres and is enclosed on the road side by a rubble wall and on the other sides by a low curb. The smaller graveyards from which graves were concentrated into this cemetery included the following:- BALUCHI ROAD CEMETERY, NEUVE-CHAPELLE, on the road from Pont-Logy to the "Moated Grange". It contained the graves of fifteen soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in the winter of 1914-15. EDWARD ROAD CEMETERY No. 3, RICHEBOURG-L'AVOUE, on the South side of the Rue des Berceaux, near another "Windy Corner" (Plot I only, containing the graves of five men of the 1st East Surreys who fell in October 1914). INDIAN VILLAGE NORTH CEMETERY, FESTUBERT, near the intersection of "Prince's Road" and the front line of early 1915. It contained the graves of fifteen soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in May and July 1915. LORGIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY, containing two British graves of October 1918. PONT-FIXE SOUTH CEMETERY, CUINCHY, on the West side of "Harley Street" (the road going South from Windy Corner), a little South of the Canal. This was a row of graves stretching Westward behind houses, and containing the bodies of 42 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in 1915.
Private Charles Logan, "D" Coy. 10th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers.
Commentary
Thomas was married to Bessie Dickie she was born at Auchaggat Scotland died in Stasbourg Sask Canada in 1972 they had a daughter who was born in 1914 and died the same year.
Thomas was in the Coldstream guards for 5 years before he migarted to Canada and came back to Northumberland to reinlist at the out break of the first world war.
Private CHARLES WALTER LOGAN 14428 "D" Coy 10th Bn., Northumberland Fusiliers who died on Wednesday, 6th June 1917. Age 26.
Cemetery: WYTSCHAETE MILITARY CEMETERY, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Grave Reference/ Panel Number: V. B. 23
Location: Wytschaete Military Cemetery is located 7 Km south of Ieper town centre, on a road leading from the Rijselseweg N365, which connects Ieper (formerly Ypres) to Wijtschate (Wytschaete) and on to Armentieres. From Ieper town centre the Rijselsestraat runs from the market square, through the Lille Gate (Rijselpoort) and directly over the crossroads with the Ieper ring road. The road name then changes to the Rijselseweg. The first right hand turning on reaching the village of Wijtschate leads onto the Hospicestraat, leading to the village square. The Wijtschatestraat leads from the village square, 500 metres beyond which lies the cemetery on the right hand side of the road.
Historical Information: Wytschaete was held by French or British forces until, after a severe bombardment, it was captured by the Germans on the 1st November, 1914. It was retaken the next day, for a short time, by the French XVITH Corps and British Cavalry; but from that date until the 7th June, 1917 (the Battle of Messines) it remained in enemy hands. From June, 1917, to April, 1918, it was in our possession; and on the 16th April, 1918, it was captured by the Germans after six days' fighting. On the 28th September it was finally retaken by British troops. The Battle Exploit Memorial of the 16th (Irish) Division adjoins the Military Cemetery, and that of the 19th (Western) Division is North-East of the village, on the Ypres-Warneton road. The Military Cemetery was made after the Armistice by the concentration of isolated graves and small cemeteries from the battlefields of 1914-1918 surrounding Wytschaete. There are now 1002, 1914-18 Commonwealth war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 673 are unidentified and sixteen special headstones are erected to commemorate soldiers from the United Kingdom known, or believed, to be buried among them. There are also memorials to 4 soldiers from the United Kingdom buried, but not found, in the Cemetery near Rossignol Estaminet; 3 buried, but not found, at R.E. (Beaver) Farm; and 2 buried, but not found, at Rest and be Thankful Farm. There is also 1 Foreign National casualty commemorated here. The cemetery covers an area of 3,267 square metres and is enclosed by walls or curbs. The more important cemeteries concentrated into Wytschaete Military Cemetery were:- REST AND BE THANKFUL FARM, KEMMEL, 1.6 kilometres North of Kemmel village, containing 23 graves of soldiers from the United Kingdom, all but one of whom fell in 1915 and thirteen of whom belonged to the 2nd Suffolks. R.E. (BEAVER) FARM, KEMMEL, near the Kemmel-Millekruisse road, which contained the graves of 18 Royal Engineers and four Canadian Engineers who fell in 1915-1917. The CEMETERY NEAR ROSSIGNOL ESTAMINET, KEMMEL, on the road to Vierstraat which contained 18 graves of soldiers from the United Kingdom (11 of the 1st Wiltshire Regiment), who fell January-April, 1915. SOMER FARM CEMETERY No. 2, WYTSCHAETE, which contained thirteen graves of soldiers from the United Kingdom, buried by the IXth Corps in June, 1917. GORDON CEMETERY, KEMMEL, on the road to Vierstraat, which contained 19 graves of soldiers from the United Kingdom. These fell in January-May, 1915, and 14 of them belonged to the 1st Gordon Highlanders.
