A Great War B.E.F. Casualty Group of Four to Private J. Devine, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 1914 Star, British War & Victory Medals (9053 Pte. J. Devine Arg. & Suth'd Highrs) Bronze Memorial Plaque (John Devine), together with commemorative scroll and Princess Mary 1914 Christmas tin, mounted for display, framed and glazed, with service records (copies). Private John Devine died of wounds on the 10th of November 1914, and is remembered with honour at the Bailleul Communal Cemetery, Nord, Bailleul was occupied on 14 October 1914 by the 19th Brigade and the 4th Division. It became an important railhead, air depot and hospital centre, with the 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 11th, 53rd, 1st Canadian and 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Stations quartered in it for considerable periods. It was a Corps headquarters until July 1917, when it was severely bombed and shelled, and after the Battle of Bailleul (13-15 April 1918), it fell into German hands and was not retaken until 30 August 1918. The earliest Commonwealth burials at Bailleul were made at the east end of the communal cemetery and in April 1915, when the space available had been filled, the extension was opened on the east side of the cemetery. The extension was used until April 1918, and again in September, and after the Armistice graves were brought in from the neighbouring battlefields.
A Great War B.E.F. Casualty Group of Four to Private J. Devine, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 1914 Star, British War & Victory Medals (9053 Pte. J. Devine Arg. & Suth'd Highrs) Bronze Memorial Plaque (John Devine), together with commemorative scroll and Princess Mary 1914 Christmas tin, mounted for display, framed and glazed, with service records (copies). Private John Devine died of wounds on the 10th of November 1914, and is remembered with honour at the Bailleul Communal Cemetery, Nord, Bailleul was occupied on 14 October 1914 by the 19th Brigade and the 4th Division. It became an important railhead, air depot and hospital centre, with the 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 11th, 53rd, 1st Canadian and 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Stations quartered in it for considerable periods. It was a Corps headquarters until July 1917, when it was severely bombed and shelled, and after the Battle of Bailleul (13-15 April 1918), it fell into German hands and was not retaken until 30 August 1918. The earliest Commonwealth burials at Bailleul were made at the east end of the communal cemetery and in April 1915, when the space available had been filled, the extension was opened on the east side of the cemetery. The extension was used until April 1918, and again in September, and after the Armistice graves were brought in from the neighbouring battlefields.
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