Cyril Every Woolnough

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Woolnough, Cyril E 1894, Dulwich, London Wallace and Eliza (née Every) 4th Battery, Machine Gun Corps (motor) 2745 Gunner 29 April 1918, age 23 Wytschaete Military Cemetery, Belgium: IIA. E. 1

Wytschaete (now Wijtschate) was taken by the Germans early in November 1914. It was recovered by Commonwealth forces during the Battle of Messines on 7 June 1917, but fell into German hands once more on 16 April 1918.  The village was recovered for the last time on 28 September. The cemetery, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from isolated positions surrounding Wytschaete and the following small battlefield cemeteries:- Rest And Be Thankful Farm, Kemmel: 23 UK burials, mostly of 1915. R.E. (Beaver) Farm, Kemmel: 18 Royal Engineer and four Canadian Engineer burials of 1915-1917.  The cemetery near Rossignol Estaminet, Kemmel: 18 UK burials, of January-April 1915.  Somer Farm Cemetery No. 2, Wytschaete: 13 UK burials made by IXth Corps in June 1917.  Gordon Cemetery, Kemmel: 19 UK burials (14 of them 1st Gordon Highlanders) of January-May 1915. There are now 1,002 servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery.  673 of the burials are unidentified, but there are special memorials to 16 casualties known or believed to be buried among them.