OUR PROJECT

 

To find out as much as possible about the 63 men and one woman buried in the Commonwealth War Graves at St John the Evangelist, Hipswell, North Yorkshire. We named the project the lost 64 Catterick. The lost 64 Catterick are buried at Hipswell. The churchyard is the burial ground for soldiers from Catterick Camp, later renamed Catterick Garrison. Personnel who died at local Military Hospitals at Catterick were buried here during the First World War. Burials for service personnel commenced around 1915 at the churchyard. There are the graves of 64  WW1 service personnel. A screen wall lists those graves not marked by headstones. Although Catterick Camp was established in 1915. It was not until 1930, on the churchyard’s northern boundary, the war office opened Catterick Garrison Cemetery as a purpose-made cemetery for the garrison. 

The deceased appeared to have had no apparent connection to the Parish. This website explains how the dead came to be buried here, who they were and where they came from. During the research, the volunteers learnt the location of the WW1 hospitals at Catterick the names of many of the soldiers and what happened to them in Catterick before they arrived at the camp and about their family connections. To our group, they will always be the lost 64 Catterick.