WW1 Commonwealth War Graves – Details

CFHS CWG WW1 Ref#	Rank, Name, Service#, Grave Ref#, Cemetery	Graphic (each links to a larger version)
002	Rifleman Arthur Cave 323622 of the London Regiment (City of London) is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval. Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org Pedigree Table PX 2 available to members only. Please email the Administrator
003	Gunner Albert Cave 159288 of the Royal Garrison Artillery is buried in the Dozinghem Military Cemetery Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org Pedigree Table GA & NS023/7 available to members only. Please email the Administrator
005	Driver A Cave 612169 of the Royal Horse Artillery is commemorated at Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel. Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org
006	Storekeeper Austin Cave 767610 of the Merchantile Marine Reserve is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial. Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org Pedigree Table BC available to members only. Please email the Administrator
007	Private Albert Cave 18675 of the Grenadier Guards. Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial.
008	Sergeant Arthur Cave G/2892 of the Middlesex Regiment. Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial.
009	Private Albert Cave 22441 of the Northamptonshire Regiment. Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial.
010	Second Hand Absolom Cave of the Mercantile Marine KIA 21 November 1914 aged 47yrs. Commemorated at the Tower Hill Memorial, London. Pedigree Table ZN1 and NS006 – available to members only. Please email the administrator
011	Gunner Alfred Bernard Cave (aka Alphonso Bernard) of the Royal Garrison Artillery is buried in the Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Ex Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org
012	Gunner Arthur Clarence Conaught CAVE 81207 of the Royal Garrison Artillery is commemorated at the Bard Cottage Cemetery. Pedigree table BC, Cave of Thorney, is available to Members only, Please email the administrator. Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org
013	Lieutenant Arthur Douglas Cave (service#?) of the Royal Air Force.	Pedigree table JL, Cave of Brackley & Ceylon, available to Members only. Please email the administrator.
014	Private Arthur Frederick Cave 28099 of the Northamptonshire Regiment is commemorated at Nieuwpoort Memorial. Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org
015	Private Albert Harry Cave (16492) of the Leicestershire Regiment is buried in Poelcapelle British Cemetery Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org He was the husband of Frances Cave, of 48, Deepdale, Freeman Rd., Leicester.
016	Rifleman Arthur John Cave (318283) of the London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) is buried in H.A.C. Cemetery, Ecoust-St. Mein Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org Pedigree Table 130-08 available to members only. Please email the Administrator
018	Private Alfred William Cave 8646 of the East Surrey Regiment. Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial.
021	Lance Serjeant Charles Cave 3065 of the Australian Infantry (AIF) is commemorated at Ypres ( Menin Gate) Memorial.
022	Driver Clarence Cave 21242 of the Royal Field Artillery is commemorated at Lala Baba Cemetery. Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org
023	Lance Corporal Christopher Alfred Cave (6362) of the Gloucestershire Regiment is buried in Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org He was the son of William James and Mary Ann M. Cave, of “Bibiani,” Horrabridge, Devon. Born Plymouth
024	Second Lieutenent Clement Forte Cave of the Royal Air Force is buried in Ingoyghem Military Cemetery Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org He was the son of Clement Francis and Mildred Beatrice Cave, of Culloden View, Beckles Rd., St. Michael, Barbados, British West Indies. Born at Trinidad.
025	Private Charles Ottoway Cave 9112 of the Northumberland Fusiliers. Commemorated at Le Touret Memorial. Son of Mrs. S. A. Cave, of 34, Briton St., Leicester, and the late C. Cave. Served nine years in India. Private Cave’s name is entered in the Book of Remembrance inscribed: ‘To the memory of the Officers and Men of the Fifth, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers who died in the Two World Wars’. The book is held by the Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland, The Abbot’s Tower, Alnwick Castle. Image of the above and further details can be obtained from the North East War Memorials Project A family grave in Welford Road Cemetery, Leicester (D section) reads: IN LOVING MEMORY OF JOHN OTWAY CAVE WHO DIED MARCH 18TH 1898 IN THE 76TH YEAR OF HIS AGE “AT REST” ALSO MARTHA ANN CAVE THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED DEC 24TH 1914 AGED 78 YEARS. PEACE PERFECT PEACE. ALSO CHARLES OTWAY CAVE GRANDSON OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED SERVING HIS COUNTRY IN FRANCE ON OCT 17TH 1914. AGED 30 YEARS. “PEACE AFTER VICTORY.”	Pedigree Chart NN available to members only. Please email the administrator.
026	Rifleman E Cave (B/201678) of the Rifle Brigade is buried in Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemeteray Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org
028	Second Lieutenant Eric Arthur Cave (service#?) of the Royal Flying Corps. Eric Arthur was born 9 August 1893 at Rushden, Northants. He obtained his flying licence (certificate) on 9 August 1915 at Military Flying SChool, Brooklands in a Maurice Farman Biplane. He was killed in action 19 February 1916 in Flanders. Source Information: Ancestry.com Great Britain, Royal Aero Club Aviators’ Certificates 1910-1950
029	Private Edward Charles Cave 2200 of the Royal Fusiliers. Commemorated at Loos Memorial.
030	Lance Corporal Ernest Cecil Cave 41933 of The Highland Light Infantry is commemorated at Etaples Military Cemetery.	Photo taken by Richard Cave, member #326, in June 2009.
033	Serjeant E M Cave 140272 of the Royal Horse Artillery is commemorated at Delhi Memorial (India Gate). Ernest is buried at Nowstera Military Cemetery N 47. He is featured in an article which appeared in the Spring 2011 newsletter Issue of Caveman. To read an extract from the article see this link. See also entry #89, John Walter Cave (brother).	Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org
034	Pt. Ernest M Cave 271022 of the The Buffs East Kent Regiment 6TH Battalion is commemorated at the Unicorn Cemetery in Vend’Huile. He was the son of Adolph & Fanny Cave (nee Woolf) of London and the husband of Ruby F Cave (nee Jacobs) of 64 Talbot Road, Bayswater London. Adolph was a tailor by trade and his wife was a tailoress machinist; the couple had seven children. Both Adolph and Fanny described themselves as ‘Russian – Poland’ on the Census returns. Adolph, originally of Polish extraction, was granted Naturalisation on 12th August 1913 and became a British subject. His Naturalisation papers revealed that he was the son of Hannah Cave and Abraham Gershon. Adolph had taken his mother’s surname. He was previously a subject of the Russian Empire and was born at Kalish on 11th November 1856. The documents further revealed that Adolph appears to be a respectable man………speaks, reads and writes the English language fairly well….’ Alfred and Fanny’s son, Ernest M Cave married Ruby Jacobs during the June Quarter of 1914. He died on 29th September 1918. (Information extracted from an article that appeared in Caveman Vol 7 No 4 March 2009 Private Ernest M Cave and his Remarkable Family.)
037	Private F Cave 22913 of the Northamptonshire Regiment commemorated at Brandhoek New Military Cemetery. Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org
038	Private Francis Cave 91199 of the Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment). Commemorated at Arras Memorial.
041	Lance Corporal Frederick Henry Cave 1387 of the Royal Engineers. Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial.
042	Lance Corporal Frederick William Cave 1325 of the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry. Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial.
043	Lance Corporal Frederick William Cave S/10188 of the Rifle Brigade. Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial.
046	G. Cave. Commemorated at Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, France.	Photograph courtesy of The War Graves Photographic Project
047	Private Geoffrey Austen Cave, 7468 Australian Infantry A.I.F. Pt. G A Cave’s Commonwealth War Grave is located at Jeancourt Communal Extension in France. He is also commemorated in the North Road Anglican Cemetery, Nailsworth, Adelaide. Born in Woodside, S.A. the son of Annie Jane Cave of 71 Fifth Avenue, St. Peters, South Australia and the late Harold Frank Cave of Adelaide, South Australia. A farmer by occupation.Pedigree Table O available to members of the society only. For more information please email the administrator.	Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org
049	Gunner G T Cave 141768 of the Royal Garrison Artillery.Note: The photo shows CT not GT, on checking with the other names on the stone they are Gunners, so we assume it is an original mistake in the engraving. Commemorated at the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
052	Private George W Cave 110851 of the Royal Fusiliers.
054	First Engineer Henry Cave of the Mercantile Marine. KIA 30 June 1917. Commemorated at Tower Hill Memorial, London. Henry is also commemorated on the Jersey Mercantile Marine Roll of Honour. Son of the late William and Sarah Cave; husband of Mary Jane Cave, of 103, Chester Rd., West Hartlepool. Born at St. Helier, Jersey. Henry Cave is also commemorated: On the Cross erected at Castle Eden ‘To the memory of the men of this parish who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918. They died for liberty and honour.’ and On the Obelisk 1914-18, Victory Square, West Hartlepool ‘IN GRATEFUL REMEMBERANCE OF THE MEN OF THIS TOWN WHO AT THEIR COUNTRY’S CALL LEFT ALL THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM TO HAZARD THEIR LIVES THAT OTHER MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM. THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE’. Image of the above and further details can be obtained from the North East War Memorials Project	Pedigree tables WE, FZ, GA, NS023 and GB, available to Members only. Please email the administrator.
055	Corporal H Cave 2747 of the Northumberland Fusiliers. Commemorated at the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Corporal Cave’s name is entered in the Book of Remembrance inscribed: ‘To the memory of the Officers and Men of the Fifth, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers who died in the Two World Wars’. The book is held by the Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland, The Abbot’s Tower, Alnwick Castle. Image of the above and further details can be obtained from the North East War Memorials Project
057	Private 23687 H Cave Norfolk Regiment 2nd Bn. Commemorated in Basra, the CWGA have advised that headstones, including that of Private Cave will not be re-erected until the Security situation is more stable. He was the son of Henry and Elizabeth Cave of Sandhills, Witley. (Sisters Margaret & Dorothy). Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org
058	Private Harry Cave 27221 of the Leicestershire Regiment. Commemorated at Arras Memorial.
060	Serjeant H Cave 5673 of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry commemorated at Perth Cemetery (China Wall). Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org
061	Rifleman Harry Cave 2190 of The Kings (Liverpool Regiment). Commemorated at Le Touret Memorial.
063	Henry Bilson Cave. Commemorated at Aire Communal Cemetery.	Photograph courtesy of The War Graves Photographic Project
064	Private Herbert Bushby Cave 4291 of the Hertfordshire Regiment. Pedigree table UJ, Cave of Kings and Abbots Langley, available to Members only. Please email the administrator. The photo supplied and used with kind permission of Mick Huggett.
065	Rifleman Henry Capen Cave 3198 of the London Regiment (London Irish Rifles). Commemorated at Loos Memorial.
069	Henry Fawcett Cave. Family grave at Southport (Duke) Cemetery, Merseyside. Also commemorated at Chocques Military Cemetery.	Photograph courtesy of The War Graves Photographic Project
070	Private Herbert James Cave G/131 of The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) Commemorated at Arras Memorial.
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071	Gunner Harold James CAVE 358121 of the Royal Garrison Artillery is commemorated at Etaples Military Cemetery.	Photo taken by Richard Cave, member #326, in June 2009.
073	Corporal Harold Percy Cave M/339151 of the Army Service Corps.	There is active member of the Cave FHS related to Harold. Please contact the Administrator for details.
076	Sergeant James Cave 14547 of the Leicestershire Regiment. Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial.
077	Sergeant John Cave 2591 of the Manchester Regiment. Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial.
078	Private John Cave 132867 of the Canadian Infantry. Commemorated at Vimy Memorial. His Attestation papers are available at ancestry.com
081	Joe Cave. Commemorated at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery and Dewsbury War Memorial
083	Private J. Cave 2756 A.I.F. has a Commonwealth War Grave in the Brisbane General Cemetery (Toowong). The great majority of the graves are in the Returned Servicemen’s plot in Portion 10. Son of Stephen and Mary Cave. Husband of Eunice Helena Cave of Liverpool. Pedigree Chart WA Available to Members Only. Please email the Administrator for access. Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org
085	Lance Corporal James Arthur Cave 41907 of the Northumberland Fusiliers. Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial.
087	Sapper JH Cave 471182 of the Royal Engineers, kia 1 July 1916. Son of John Henry and Jane Shipley Cave, of 531, Stanhope Rd., Tyne Dock, South Shields Sapper J H Cave is also commemorated : On the reredos and panelling in St. Michael and All Angel’s Church, South Shield, in memory of those who resided in the parish and those who worshipped in the church from outside the parish who laid down their lives in the World War 1914-1918 as well as in the Book of Remembrance On the Memorial Plaque in St. Stephen’s Church, South Shields Images of the above and further details can be obtained from the North East War Memorials Project	Pedigree Table QC available to members only – Please email the administrator
089	Private John Walter Cave 30234 of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial. appeared in the Spring 2011 newsletter Issue of Caveman. To read an extract from the article see this link. See also entry #33, Ernest Mulgrave Cave (brother).
092	Lance Corporal Lewis Cave 65168 of the Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment). Commemorated at the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
093	Private Leslie Fred Silas Cave 12/1989 of York & Lancaster Regiment. Commemorated at Arras Memorial.
094	Driver Leonard Phillip Cave of the New Zealand Field Artillery.	Pedigree table AP, Cave of Brackley & New Zealand, available to Members only. Please email the administrator.
095	Private Peter Cave 29648 of The Kings (Liverpool Regiment). Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial.
096	Private Percy Cave 10883 of the Lincolnshire Regiment. Commemorated at Loos Memorial.
098	Private Phillip John Cave 16235 of the Northamptonshire Regiment. Commemorated at Le Touret Memorial. Pedigree table KJ, Cave of Bedfordshire, available to Members only. Please email the administrator.
099	Private Percy Worrall Cave (422997) of the Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment). Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Pedigree table HS, Cave of Monkland, available to Members only. Please email the administrator.
100	Private Robert Cave 15092 of the Northamptonshire Regiment	Pedigree table IX, Cave of Pinchbeck & Northborough, available to Members only. Please email the administrator.
101	Trooper Robert Cave of the Wellington Mounted Rifles, NZEF.	Pedigree table JK, Cave of Chatteris & New Zealand, available to Members only. Please email the administrator.
104	Private Reginald George Cave 37786 of the Somerset Light Infantry.	There is an active member of the Cave FHS related to Reginald. Please contact the Administrator for details.
108	Private Sidney Arthur Cave 29676 of the Hampshire Regiment. Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial.
109	Private Sidney Edwin Cave 102331 of Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Commemorated at Arras Memorial.
110	Private Thomas Cave 75328 of Machine Gun Corps (Heavy branch). Commemorated at Arras Memorial.
111	Private Thomas Cave 12163 of the East Lancashire Regiment. Commemorated at Le Touret Memorial.
113	Corporal T B Cave 703922 of the Canadian Infantry Central Ontario Regiment.	Pedigree table CR, Cave of Richmond, available to Members only. Please email the administrator.
114	Gunner Thomas Eric Cave 961446 of the Royal Field Artillery commemorated at Aeroplane Cemetery. Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org
115	Private Thomas Harley CAVE 11994 of the Army Cyclist Corps.	Pedigree table DE, Cave of S Lincs, available to Members only. Please email the administrator.
117	Private Thomas William Cave 18254 of the Yorkshire Regiment. Commemorated at Thiepval memorial.
118	Company Sergeant Major Vincent Cave 1046 of the London Regiment (The Rangers). Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
121	Private Walter Cave 16658 of Leicestershire Regiment. Commemorated at Arras Memorial.
122	Private W. Cave 51957 Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry) 25th Sqdn. The panel is part of the Basra Memorial, originally erected in the city of Basra but dismantled and re erected in the desert by Saddam Hussein’s regime. The names are obscured by cement. Once the security situation is more stable the CMWGC will maintain the memorial.	The image of the panel showing W. Cave is courtesy of TWGPP If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org
124	Company Serjeant Major W E Cave 20288 of the Northumberland Fusiliers is commemorated at the Voormeezele Enclosure #3. Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org
127	Private William George Cave 26684 of the Wiltshire Regiment. Commemorated at the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
128	Private W H CAVE 13733 of the South African Infantry. Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Pedigree table CA, Cave of Moulton & Holbeach, available to Members only. Please email the administrator.
130	Private William Horace CAVE 25162 of the East Surrey Regiment. Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial.	Pedigree table EY, Cave of South Kilworth, available to Members only. Please email the administrator.
131	William Henry Cave. Commemorated at Tannay British Cemetery, Thienne.
133	Lieutenant Walter Henry Charles Cave of the Dorsetshire Regiment.	Pedigree table AE, Cave of Cleve Hill & Sidbury Manor, available to Members only. Please email the administrator.
134	Private Walter J Cave 54121 of the Durham Light Infantry. Commemorated at the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.There is an active member of the Cave FHS related to Walter. Please contact the Administrator for details.
212	Private Edward Caves 8155 of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Commemorated at Le Touret Memorial.
217	Private Jonathon Caves 4606 of the Bedfordshire Regiment is commemorated at the Helles Memorial.
218	Private Joseph S Caves 203274 of the Bedfordshire Regiment commemorated at Chatby Memorial. Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit http://twgpp.org
226	Private Joseph Patrick Cavey 31089 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers ‘A’ Coy. 5th Bn. Previous army no. 16635 served with Northamptonshire Regiment. Private Cavey is commemorated in the Kantara War Memorial Cemetery in Egypt. He is also commemorated on a family memorial in Wigan Cemetery. Joseph Patrick Cavey son of James and Mary Cavey of 66 Widdrington Road, Wigan. Photograph courtesy of TWGPP. If you require a copy please visit www.http://twgpp.org

WW1 Commonwealth War Graves – Details

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