Dit monumentje werd waarschijnlijk geplaatst door de familie of vrienden van de gesneuvelde. Dit soort monumentjes is persoonlijk (dus niet officieel). Meestal worden ze geplaatst dichtbij de plaats waar hij gesneuveld is. In dit geval is de soldaat als vermist opgegeven en werd het kruisje geplaatst bij de dichtstbijzijnde Farm (Besace Farm)!
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DEBT OF HONOUR REGISTER
In Memory of
HENRY JOHN MARTIN
Lance Corporal 242077
3rd/4th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
who died on Tuesday 27 November 1917 .
Cemetery:
TYNE COT MEMORIAL Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Grave or Reference Panel Number:
Panel 106 to 108
Location:
The Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery, which is located 9 kilometres north east of leper town centre, on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332). The names of those from United Kingdom units are inscribed on Panels arranged by Regiment under their respective Ranks. The names of those from New Zealand units are inscribed on panels within the New Zealand Memorial Apse located at the center of the Memorial.
Visiting Information:
There are two separate registers for this site - one for the cemetery and one for the memorial. The memorial register will be found in the left hand rotunda of the memorial as you face the memorial. The Panel Numbers quoted at the end of each entry relate to the panels dedicated to the Regiment served with. In some instances where a casualty is recorded as attached to another Regiment, his name may alternatively appear within their Regimental Panels. Please refer to the on-site Memorial Register Introduction to determine the alternative panel numbers if you do not find the name within the quoted Panels.
Historical Information:
The Tyne Cot Memorial is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war. The Salient was formed during the First Battle of Ypres in October and November 1914, when a small British Expeditionary Force succeeded in securing the town before the onset of winter, pushing the German forces back to the Passchendaele Ridge. The Second Battle of Ypres began in April 1915 when the Germans released poison gas into the Allied lines north of Ypres. This was the first time gas had been used by either side and the violence of the attack forced an Allied withdrawal and a shortening of the line of defence. There was little more significant activity on this front until 1917, when in the Third Battle of Ypres an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south. The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly
From the wardiary of the 3rd/4th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment):
"the state to which rain and shell-fire had reduced the ground was arduous and almost unending work, but if uninspiring it was absolutely essential, and, moreover, was not without its dangers, costing the battalion 20 casualties in twelve days. Ten days in back areas followed and then the Seventeenth Division relieved the Fifty-Seventh between Poelcapelle and the Ypres-Staden railway on November 7th. This brought the 3/4th into the front trenches between Requette Farm and the Broombeck two nights later, but by that time active operations on the Poelcapelle front had been suspended, though through shelling and snipers the battallion had over 30 casualties in its four days in the line. While the 7th had been finding mud even more formidable than Germans round Poelcapelle, another battalion of the Regiment had been employed in the same quarter of the battlefield, though without being engaged in any real heavy fighting. The 3rd/4th had arrived in the Ypres area on October 4th, and after a week at Proven moved forward when its Division relieved the Twenty-Ninth in the line North-East of Langemarck. But it was only in Divisional reserve, and on October 14th was detailed for work under R.E. supervision in constructing roads between the Pilckem Ridge and Langemarck Church."
