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4th (Hallamshire) Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
4th (Hallamshire) Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment was a Territorial unit based in Sheffield serving with the 3rd West Riding Brigade, West Riding Division. When war broke out in August 1914, the units of the Division had just departed for their annual summer camp, they were at once recalled to their home base and mobilised for war service, moving to Doncaster. In November they moved to Gainsborough and in in February 1915 to York to prepare for service overseas, those men who had not volunteered for Imperial Service transferred tp the newly formed 2/4th Battalion. They proceeded to France on the 14th of April 1915, sailing from Folkestone to Boulogne. The Division concentrated in the area around Estaires. On the 15th of May the formation was renamed 148th Brigade, 49th (West Riding) Division. Their first action was in the The Battle of Aubers Ridge in May 1915. In 1916 They were in action in the Battles of the Somme. In 1917 they were involved in the Operations on the Flanders Coast and the The Battle of Poelcapelle during the Third Battle of Ypres. In 1918 they were in action during the Battles of the Lys, The pursuit to the Selle and the Final Advance in Picardy. At the Armistice, The 49th Division was resting at Douai, demobilisation began in early 1919.
27th Aug 1915 Cold Hearted
13th Feb 1916 16th Northumberland Fusilers A & D Coys relieved by 4th Yorks & Lancs B & C Coys, 16th Northumberlands are relieved by the 5th Yorks and return to Millencourt. Teh Battalion spends the next month rotating between the front line (six or eight days at a time), support (four days) at Authuille or Black Horse Bridge, and in reserve at Millencourt or Bouzincourt (four days). records of the 16th (service) battalion northumberland fusiliers captain ch cooke mc, newcastle upon tyne 1923
1st July 1916 Terrible Losses 
18th Mar 1917 Trench Raid
19th Mar 1917 Trench Raid
21st Mar 1917 Occasional Shells
22nd Mar 1917 Trench Raid
23rd Mar 1917 Trench Mortars
4th June 1917 Entertainment
14th June 1917 Horse Show
1st Nov 1917 Inspection
2nd Nov 1917 Training
3rd Nov 1917 Orders
4th Nov 1917 Orders
5th Nov 1917 Demonstration
6th Nov 1917 Orders
7th Nov 1917 Orders
9th Nov 1917 Reliefs
11th Nov 1917 Reliefs
12th Nov 1917 Reliefs
24th Nov 1917 Shelling
25th Nov 1917 Shelling
27th Nov 1917 Reliefs
29th Nov 1917 Reliefs
1st Mar 1918 Raid
2nd Mar 1918 Prisoners Taken
3rd Mar 1918 Raid
4th Mar 1918 Quiet
5th Mar 1918 Patrol
6th Mar 1918 Shelling
7th Mar 1918 Information
8th Mar 1918 Artillery Active
9th Mar 1918 Counter Attack
10th Mar 1918 Quiet
11th Mar 1918 Trench Raid
12th Mar 1918 Balloon
13th Mar 1918 Trench Raid
14th Mar 1918 Shellfire
15th Mar 1918 Artillery Active
16th Mar 1918 Artillery Active
17th Mar 1918 Raid
18th Mar 1918 Shelling
19th Mar 1918 Quieter
20th Mar 1918 Shelling
21st Mar 1918 Gas
22nd Mar 1918 Enemy Quieter
23rd Mar 1918 Enemy Quieter
24th Mar 1918 Prisoners
25th Mar 1918 Raids
26th Mar 1918 Orders
27th Mar 1918 Reliefs
28th Mar 1918 Quiet
29th Mar 1918 Quiet
30th Mar 1918 Reliefs
31st Mar 1918 Quiet
1st Apr 1918 Reliefs
2nd Apr 1918 Intermittent Shelling
3rd Apr 1918 Reliefs
4th Apr 1918 Quiet
5th Apr 1918 Reliefs
6th Apr 1918 Reliefs
7th Apr 1918 Raid
8th Apr 1918 Prisoners
9th Apr 1918 Orders
10th Apr 1918 Attack Made
11th of April 1918 Quiet...and then...
11th Apr 1918 Rearguard Action
12th of April 1918 Enemy Advances
12th Apr 1918 Line Holding
13th of April 1918 Under Heavy Attack
13th Apr 1918 Line Holding
14th of April 1918 A Counter-Attack
14th Apr 1918 Attack Made
15th Apr 1918 Attacks Made
16th Apr 1918 Attacks Made
17th Apr 1918 Attacks Made
18th of April 1918 Relief for Some
18th Apr 1918 Attacks Made
19th of April 1918 A Quiet Day
19th Apr 1918 Snow
19th Apr 1918 Reliefs
30th of April 1918 Reliefs and Attacks
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Those known to have served with4th (Hallamshire) Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Bateman Frank. Pte. (d.10th Sep 1918)
- Beckett Hubert Edge. 2nd.Lt. (d.23rd July 1917)
- Bray Albert. Pte. (d.13th June 1915)
- Burnett Charles W.. Pte. (d.19th Jul 1917)
- Cadman DCM. Walter. CSM
- Dossett Walter. Pte. (d.25th June 1918)
- Forrest William Henry. Lt.
- Glover John Abraham. Sgt. (d.19th Oct 1918)
- Gothard Thomas. Pte. (d.13th April 1918)
- Holmes Alexander. Pte. (d.22nd May 1918)
- Houghton John Thomas. Pte. (d.7th July 1916)
- Howard Harry. Pte. (d.9th Oct 1917)
- Jefferey MM. Henry Thomas. Pte. (d.13th Oct 1918)
- Levick Charles William. Pte. (d.3rd July 1916)
- Marshall Claude William Taylor. Pte. (d.9th November 1918)
- McArdle Peter Paul. 2nd Lt. (d.26th April 1918)
- Parrott William Henry. Pte.
- Preen George Herbert. Pte.
- Schneider John . Pte. (d.9th Oct 1917)
- Southwick Samuel. Pte. (d.7th Sept 1916)
- Southwick Samuel. Pte. (d.7th September 1916)
- Staley Walter. Pte. (d.16th July 1916)
- Stephenson Ernest. Pte. (d.18th October 1917)
- Whomersley MM. George William. Pte.
- Wilkinson MC. Robert Morton. Capt.
- Wood George. Sgt. (d.12th June 1917)
- Wood George. Sgt. (d.12th Jun 1917)
- Wood DCM, MM, CdeG. William. CSM.
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Pte. George Herbert Preen 4th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Very little is known of my granddad's wartime exploits. I think George Preen served through most of the conflict and received the three usual medals, and he was one of the many who was reluctant to talk about his experiences. Before the war, he had been a golf caddy and after the war he became a golf professional. My granddad died when I was just three years old, so I never really got to talk to him about the war though I do have a recollection of someone saying he had been cited for a VC. Sorry that I have very little information my granddad, who died in 1960.
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Sgt. George Wood 1/4th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment (d.12th Jun 1917) George Wood served with 1/4th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
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Pte. Charles William Levick 4th (Hallamshire) Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment (d.3rd July 1916) Charles Levick was born in 1886 and was a furnace man in the steelworks of Sheffield.
He enlisted on 7th June 1915.
Charles was 29 years 7months old stood 5 foot 9ins weighed 130 pounds.
At the time of his enlisting he was living at 29 Blackburn Street in Sheffield. He had a wife named Ethel a son Charles and an daughter Winnie.
Charles was killed in action 3rd of July 1916 and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. From his Army records Ethel received a pension of 18/6 per week for her and her 2 children.
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CSM. William Wood DCM, MM, CdeG. B Coy, 1/4 Btn. York &and Lancaster Regiment William Wood was my great, great grandfather. He was born in Sheffield in 1876 to parents Joseph and Annie and was the eldest of 8 children.
He served in South Africa, though very little is known about his time there. He re-joined the army at the onset of WW1.
The story was that on enlisting he shaved 6 years off his age as those around him were adding to theirs. He became Company Sergeant Major of B company 1st/4th battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment. He was awarded the DCM, MM and the Belgium Croix de Guerre. He was mentioned in dispatches.
Unfortunately we haven't been able to discover how he earned his medals but he was undoubtedly a brave man. He was wounded twice and spent time in Wharncliffe hospital where his younger sister Lily worked.
He survived the war and died in 1940 aged 64. He had been gassed in the trenches and this was thought to have contributed to his death.
His younger brother George, born in 1891, was a Sergeant in the same battalion. He fell at Loos in 1917 aged 26.
We are very proud of William and George.
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Pte. Claude William Taylor Marshall 4th (Hallamshire) Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment (d.9th November 1918) Claude Marshall was injured in a mustard gas attack in the Battle of the Somme 1916. He was discharged on the 11th of May 1917 on medical grounds.
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Capt. Robert Morton Wilkinson MC. 1/4th (Hallamshire) Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment My great uncle, Robert Wilkinson received The MC for gallantry in Valenciennes. I have a book written by Captain DP Grant on the 1/4th (Hallamshire) Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919, it records "the success of the attacks on the steelworks was largely due to the fine example of coolness and courage which he set and to the skilful way in which he handled his men, while supervising the consolidation of the captured position under heavy shell fire he was wounded in the face and leg, but although suffering severely from shock and hemorrhage, he refused to leave his company until the battalion was relieved on the night of 3rd/4th November".
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Pte. George William Whomersley MM. 4th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment George Whomersley enlisted on the 1st of November 1916
and served in France from 28th of February 1917 to 23rd of August 1917 and from 1st of September 1918 to 8th of January 1919. He was wounded on the 27th of June 1917. He was awarded the Military Medal.
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2nd.Lt. Hubert Edge Beckett 1st/4th (Hallamshire) Btn. D Coy. York and Lancaster Regiment (d.23rd July 1917) Hubert Beckett served with D Company. 1st/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment.
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Lt. William Henry Forrest 4th (Hallamshire) Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment William Forrest enlisted before the war. He won various shooting awards during competitions at Bisley Ranges. During 1915 whilst fighting in France he was wounded at Armentieres. William was commissioned 2nd Lt in 1917. He joined the Royal Army Flying Corps as a pilot towards the end of the war. He crashed his plane 15th of October 1918 and sustained no injury. He finally left the military 1922 as a Lt.
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Sgt. John Abraham Glover 4th Btn., D Coy. York and Lancaster Regiment (d.19th Oct 1918) .jpg) John Glover was born on 10th August 1891 in Bolsover, Derbyshire, the son of Thomas and Alice Glover. His mother Alice died on 19th October 1893, his father Thomas was left to bring John and his brother Isaiah up alone.
Thomas eventually remarried Elizabeth Anglesea and moved to Clowne in Derbyshire. When John was in his late teens he and his brother Isaiah moved to Thurnscoe near Rotherham to live with their uncle William Glover at Shepherd Lane, Thurnscoe. All were employed at Hickleton Main colliery.
John married Eliza Davies at Bolton on Dearne church on 25th December 1914.
It was around this time that John joined his local regiment the 2nd/5th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment enlisting at Wath upon Dearne as a territorial. His regimental number given as 3825 (later to change to 241361). He was promoted to Corporal. He and Eliza had a son, John Thomas born on 5th February 1916 at No. 10 York Terrace, Thurnscoe.
John joined his battalion on summer camp in June 1916 at Flixton Park and volunteered for overseas service some time after this.
The Battalion sailed from Southampton to Le Havre on 5th January 1917 on transport ships and were accommodated after disembarkation at No. 2 rest camp.
John fought through all the major engagements with his battalion against the Germans in France.
Due to the heavy losses of the battalion in November 1917, it was decided to disband the 2nd/5th York and Lancaster's and draft the remaining members into 2nd/4th York and Lancaster and 1st/4th York and Lancasters.
John joined D Company as Sergeant of the 1st/4th York and Lancasters.
During the German spring offensive John and his unit were captured by the enemy at Neuve Eglise on 15th April 1918.
He was recorded as a prisoner of war at Friedrichsfeld, Wessel, Rhineland, Germany. No word was heard of John by his family until October 13th 1918 when they received a postcard from him through the Red Cross.
His family were later informed that John had died while a prisoner of war of Spanish Flu on 19th of October 1918 (by strange coincidence on the same date as his mother) whilst in a war hospital at Erquelinnes in Belgium. He is buried in Erquelinnes Communal Cemetery with a number of his comrades, all interred by the Germans.
His name is remembered on the war memorial in Thurnscoe. John's wife went on to remarry on 2nd March 1920 to Bernard Moulton of Thurnscoe, but sadly died of a miscarriage on 25th March 1920. John and Eliza's son John Thomas was brought up by other family members and went on to be a headmaster of a school in Wakefield.
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Pte. William Henry Parrott 8th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Bill Parrott possibly signed up in November 1916. He served in France with the 8th Battalion from February 1917. Also served with the 9th and 1/4 Battalions. Possibly wounded whilst during battle. Later transferred to Labour Corps and Royal Fusiliers. He was demobilised in May 1919. Prior to (and after) the war he was a miner. Bill died in 1980.
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Pte. Charles W. Burnett 1/4th (Hallamshire) Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment (d.19th Jul 1917) My Great Grandfather Charles Burnett was well into his thirties when he joined the Battalion. Before he went off to war he was a Confectionary Labourer working at I think either Bassets or Trebor
in Hillsbourough, Sheffield. He was married to Louisa and lived at 44 Walkley Road, Sheffield. My father has a picture of my Great Grandmother standing by Charles' grave at Coxyde Cemetery but I dont think there is a date.
I dont really know much more about the family apart from his son, my Grandfather Clifford so impressed a local businessman at a Y.M.C.A camp in Derbyshire that he gave him a job in the wholesale markets in Sheffield
and he eventually took over the company.
Thank You Charles for making the ultimate sacrifice for everything you held dear to you.
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Pte. Thomas Gothard 1st/4th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment (d.13th April 1918) Thomas Gothard was born in June 1893 in Derbyshire and was the son of Thomas and Ellen Gothard. He had 2 brothers and 4 sisters, one of whom was my grandmother.
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Pte. Alexander Holmes 1/4th (Hallamshire) Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment (d.22nd May 1918) Alexander Holmes died Of wounds In Flanders
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Pte. Albert Bray 1/4th Hallamshire Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment (d.13th June 1915) My great grandfather Albert Bray served with the 4th Yorks and Lancs. I am piecing things together bit by bit and I am looking for a photograph, if I can find one.
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2nd Lt. Peter Paul McArdle 1/2 Btn. Att 1/4th Btn. York & Lancs Rgt. Cheshire Regiment (d.26th April 1918) Peter McArdle is commemorated with two of his brothers on the war memorial at Bishop Eton Catholic Church in Liverpool.
He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium.
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Pte. Henry Thomas Jefferey MM. 1/4 (Hallamshire) Btn. York & Lancaster Regiment (d.13th Oct 1918) Henry Thomas Jefferey was formally Pte. 10827 of the Royal Sussex Regt.
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Pte. Frank Bateman 1/4th Btn. Yorks & Lancs Regiment (d.10th Sep 1918) Frank Bateman was executed for desertion 10/09/1918 age 28 and buried in Villers Station Cemetery, Villers-au-Bois, France. He as the son of Mr. C. Bateman, of 3 Kilton St., Sheffield
Julian Putkowski and Julian Sykes in their book "Shot at Dawn state that Frank was initially posted to 1/4 King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (49 West Riding Division) at the end of June 1915. The Battalion served at Ypres in the Autumn of 1915 and then transferred to the Somme in 1916. Frank was wounded in the summer of that year and after recovery was posted to 1/5 Battalion. He first deserted in 1917 and received a sentence of one year’s imprisonment that was suspended. Later that year he was returned to England with this time a self inflicted wound.
Returning to his original Battalion in 1918 (1/4 King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) he deserted again and received a fifteen year sentence again suspended. In June 1918 he went missing yet again and received the death sentence at the subsequent court martial. The sentence was carried out on 10th September 1918. Frank was the sixth and final soldier from Sheffield to be executed. It was of course just two months from the end of the war.
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Pte. Walter Dossett 1/4th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment (d.25th June 1918) Walter Dossett was the son of William and Lily Dossett, of Sheffield.
He was executed for desertion 25/06/1918, aged 22 and is buried in Hagle Dump Cemetery. His headstone bears inscription 'Until we meet again.' He served from 1916 in three different Machine Gun Companies, 143rd (part of 48 Division), 118th (part of 39 Division) and 63rd (part of 21 Division) until being transferred to 1/4th Battalion Yorks and Lancaster. Private Dossett went absent from his Battalion during the German Offensive in April 1918, the Courts Martial appears to have been on the 8th June 1918. On the 25th June the death sentence having been confirmed, Private Dossett was brought by ambulance to a rifle range near Vlamertinghe, he was bound in a chair, a blindfold applied and a piece of white paper pinned over his heart. The firing squad had been selected from machine gunners in 21st Division.
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Pte. Harry Howard 4th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment (d.9th Oct 1917) Harry Howard served with 1/4th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment.
In September 1916 he wrote to his parents to let them know he was in hospital.Harry "had been gassed and injured" he wrote.In his letter home he said he was on sentry duty and had an hour left when the Germans started.He said they threw phosphorus and grenades and got into an advanced trench.He ended his letter with "they'd seen them off" and he was currently recovering in hospital.
In October 1917 Harry's parents received a letter which was printed in the local paper (The Whitby Gazette) saying he was missing and every effort was been made to find him.
Harry was last seen going over the top and was lost during the action.
He died at the age of 20 on the 9th October 1917.
Harry is commemorated at the Tyne Cot Memorial in Zonnebeke, Belgium.
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