Private Frederick George Walker – Notts and Derby (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment in the 2nd Battalion. Regimental No 16130. Died 10 February 1917
Buried: Plot 5. Row C. Grave 34.
Vermelles British Cemetery is a First World War British war cemetery at Vermelles, a village 10 kilometres north-west of Lens, Pas-de-Calais. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker and contains the memorials to 2134 casualties. Of these, 198 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to six soldiers from the United Kingdom, known to be buried among them This cemetery also contains the graves of 11 casualties of other nationalities.
Vermelles was in German hands from the middle of October 1914 to the beginning of December 1914, when it was recaptured by the French. The cemetery was begun in August 1915 (though a few graves are slightly earlier), and during the Battle of Loos, when the Chateau was used as a dressing station, Plot I was completed. It was laid out and fenced by the Pioneers of the 1st Gloucester’s and known for a long time as “Gloucester Graveyard”. The remaining Plots were made by the Divisions (from the Dismounted Cavalry Division onwards) holding the line 1.6 kilometres East of the cemetery until April 1917, and they incorporated a few isolated French graves of October 1914. From April 1917, to the Armistice, the cemetery was closed; but after the Armistice graves were brought in (to Plots II, IV and VI) from the battlefields to the East.
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