I am trying to find which cemetery a man who died in 1918 was buried in. It will be in Holmfirth, but there are a few and none that seem obvious. I have seen four different spellings for his Christian name plus two short versions.
He is Gamaliel Boothroyd who was a Private (23419), 20th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. He died on the morning of Sunday 20th October 1918 at the Holmfirth Auxiliary Hospital. He was twenty-nine years old. He lived at Pog Ing, Holmfirth, as a boy he had attended Wooldale Council School and Wooldale Town End Primitive Methodist Sunday School and later worked with his father in the Yeast Business. He enlisted in June 1916 with the Durham Light Infantry and went to France in October 1916.
In June 1917 he was severely wounded in the left thigh and his left hand. The hand became almost useless and he was medically discharged as disabled. Back in Holmfirth the doctors wanted to operate but felt it necessary to wait until his health improved and he grew stronger, eventually it was decided to go ahead with the operation, however he became much worse as a result and subsequently died.
His death is registered in the ordinary home deaths, December Quarter 1918. But not on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Register, which is a pity because they always give the cemetery details. He is one of a small number of Holmfirth men who died in or as a result of the war that I still do not have the burial details of.
I would greatly appreciate any information, it will probably be somewhere that will seem obvious once known, but I need to have positive information whenever possible.
Thanks,
Tony.
