Pte 242546 Harry EVERETT 1/5 Norfolks is shown as 'died in Palestine at Jarabschi 30/10/1917'.
Does anyone know the whereabouts of Jarabschi, please?
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Chris.
Google search for "Jarabschi" only brings two hits - your posting and the Norfolk roll of Honour which I'm guessing you were looking at! His CWGC link is here.
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=633373
However the fact that he is buried in North Gate cemetery Baghdad - suggests he almost certainly died in Mesopotamia and not Palestine. Could be that at the time they used "Palestine" as a generic term for the middle east.
The name Jarabschi does not come up as a place name, so could be a mis spelling, or an anglified version of somewhere else - eg. Al Jarab and Al Jarabi bring up plenty hits. Many casualties in North Gate were relocated there from smaller cemeteries, so I'd look to somewhere in the north half of Iraq. Other thing to do is find out where his unit was at the time of his death to narrow down the area.
David
Google search for "Jarabschi" only brings two hits - your posting and the Norfolk roll of Honour which I'm guessing you were looking at! His CWGC link is here.
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=633373
However the fact that he is buried in North Gate cemetery Baghdad - suggests he almost certainly died in Mesopotamia and not Palestine. Could be that at the time they used "Palestine" as a generic term for the middle east.
The name Jarabschi does not come up as a place name, so could be a mis spelling, or an anglified version of somewhere else - eg. Al Jarab and Al Jarabi bring up plenty hits. Many casualties in North Gate were relocated there from smaller cemeteries, so I'd look to somewhere in the north half of Iraq. Other thing to do is find out where his unit was at the time of his death to narrow down the area.
David
Thank you, David. Another kind Forum member had looked up his service record which showed the place to be 'Yarbashi'.
Just another example of the reliability of GWF!
Just another example of the reliability of GWF!
Yarbashi is in present day Uzbekistan, which was then Anatolia.
The CWGC report for Baghdad North Gate regarding relocating of casualties states - YARBASHI PRISONERS OF WAR CEMETERY: 145 graves found. So he must have died as a POW to be amongst them.
The CWGC report for Baghdad North Gate regarding relocating of casualties states - YARBASHI PRISONERS OF WAR CEMETERY: 145 graves found. So he must have died as a POW to be amongst them.
QUOTE (david murdoch @ Aug 15 2009, 03:25 PM) 
Yarbashi is in present day Uzbekistan, which was then Anatolia.
The CWGC report for Baghdad North Gate regarding relocating of casualties states - YARBASHI PRISONERS OF WAR CEMETERY: 145 graves found. So he must have died as a POW to be amongst them.
The CWGC report for Baghdad North Gate regarding relocating of casualties states - YARBASHI PRISONERS OF WAR CEMETERY: 145 graves found. So he must have died as a POW to be amongst them.
Isn't Uzbekistan about 2000 miles from Anatolia? Or am I missing something here? (Maybe a bit less.)
Bob Lembke
Many PoWs in Turkey who dies and were buried in PoW camp cemeteries were later concentrated to Baghdad (North Gate) and in doing so were often moved many many hundreds of miles eastward.
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