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Wylie, John {I23861} (b. ABT. 1855, d. UNKNOWN)

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 23861

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Coxhead, David {I23862} (b. 1 JUN 1891, d. 17 SEP 1916)

Note: David's position in the family is uncertain. His birth does not appear to have been registered but it is likely that he is the son of Mary Coxhead Gillard, and one John Wylie. On his marriage certificate David recorded his parents as Robert and Bella Coxhead nee Finley. He was registered at Otakeho primary school by his uncle Robert Coxhead. In 1902, aged 11˝, he was given relief by the charitable aid board in Auckland. On his army enrollment papers he stated that Millie Gillard (Mrs. Millie Hill) was his siter and next-of-kin.

The CWGC states:

Caterpillar Valley was the name given by the army to the long valley which rises eastwards, past "Caterpillar Wood", to the high ground at Guillemont. The ground was captured, after very fierce fighting, in the latter part of July 1916. It was lost in the German advance of March 1918 and recovered by the 38th (Welsh) Division on 28 August 1918, when a little cemetery was made (now Plot 1 of this cemetery) containing 25 graves of the 38th Division and the 6th Dragoon Guards. After the Armistice, this cemetery was hugely increased when the graves of more than 5,500 officers and men were brought in from other small cemeteries, and the battlefields of the Somme. The great majority of these soldiers died in the autumn of 1916 and almost all the rest in August or September 1918. CATERPILLAR VALLEY CEMETERY now contains 5,569 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 3,796 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 32 casualties known or believed to be buried among them, and to three buried in McCormick's Post Cemetery whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. On the east side of the cemetery is the CATERPILLAR VALLEY (NEW ZEALAND) MEMORIAL, commemorating more than 1,200 officers and men of the New Zealand Division who died in the Battles of the Somme in 1916, and whose graves are not known. This is one of seven memorials in France and Belgium to those New Zealand soldiers who died on the Western Front and whose graves are not known. The memorials are all in cemeteries chosen as appropriate to the fighting in which the men died. Both cemetery and memorial were designed by Sir Herbert Baker.