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12th (Teesside Pioneers) Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards)
12th (Service) Battalion (Teesside Pioneers) Yorkshire Regiment was raised at Middlesbrough on 21 December 1914 by the Mayor and Town. They underwent training at Gosforth and in August 1915 moved to Cannock Chase. Being adopted by War Office on the 27th of August 1915. In September 1915 they arrived at Badajoz Barracks at Aldershot and converted to a Pioneer Battalion, joining 40th Division. They proceeded to France, landing at Le Havre. They went into the front line near Loos in October 1915. In 1916 they saw action in the Battle of the Somme. In 1917 they were involved in action in The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line in March, the capture of Fifteen Ravine, Villers Plouich, Beaucamp and La Vacquerie during April and early May and the Cambrai Operations, in November which including the capture of Bourlon Wood. Early 1918 they were in action on the Somme and then in the Battles of the Lys where the Division suffered heavy casualties and on the
5th of May they were reduced to cadre strength, on the 28th June 1918 those remaining transferred to 17th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment.
12th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment in Middlesbrough The 12th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment established their Drill Hall in Lytton Street, Middlesbrough.http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=520&page=2
Jan 1915 Specialist Training
10th Mar 1917 Pioneers at Work
25th Nov 1917 Orders
30th Nov 1917 Congratulations
1st Apr 1918 On the Move 
2nd Apr 1918 Moves
2nd Apr 1918 In Billets
3rd Apr 1918 In Billets
4th Apr 1918 Quiet
4th Apr 1918 In Billets
5th Apr 1918 Work
6th Apr 1918 Work
7th Apr 1918 Work
8th Apr 1918 Work
9th Apr 1918 In Action
9th Apr 1918 Attacks
10th Apr 1918 Attacks
11th Apr 1918 Reliefs Complete
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Those known to have served with12th (Teesside Pioneers) Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) during the Great War 1914-1918. - Ainsworth Albert. Pte. (d.10th Apr 1918)
- Allen Robert. Pte. (d.23rd Dec 1916)
- Binks James Richard. Pte. (d.9th Apr 1918)
- Bloom Harold. Lt. (d.14th Feb 1917)
- Brogden Issac Arthur. Sjt. (d.23rd Mar 1918)
- Brown Richard. Pte. (d.8th Jan 1918)
- Cook Henry. Sjt. (d.9th Jan 1917)
- Dalton Harold. Pte. (d.22nd Oct 1918)
- Dean Frederick. Pte. (d.11th Apr 1918)
- Edmonds G.. Pte. (d.4th May 1917)
- Herrington Joseph. Pte.
- Holmes John Wiseman. Pte. (d.13th Dec 1917)
- Hyde John Thomas. Pte. (d.26th Nov 1917)
- Jameson Thomas. Pte. (d.11th Apr 1918)
- Linley Edmund.
- O'Boyle John. Pte. (d.11th Apr 1918)
- Peirson Taylor. Sgt. (d.10th Apr 1918)
- Spence MID. Sydney Smith. Cpl.
- Stafford Percy. Pte. (d.15th December 1916)
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Edmund Linley D Coy., 12th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) I have a letter, written in 1915, from my grandfather, Edmund Linley, to his sister Amy in Sheffield. The letter is on headed notepaper: YMCA with HM Forces on Active Service. He has written his address as Hut 30, D Company, 12th Battalion, York Regiment. Stationed at 15th Lines Hurdcott Camp, Salisbury.
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Pte. Joseph Herrington 12th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment My grandfather Joseph Herrington joined up to serve in WW1. I'm not sure when. At the time he was 37 and had four young boys aged from 11 to 3. Therefore he went to war as a volunteer rather than as a conscript.
He was a joiner, the son of a pub landlord in Harrogate, and married my grandmother in 1903 when she was working as a maid of all work in the same town. The couple moved to Redcar around 1906 and Joe obtained work as a council joiner, working on a new batch of streets that adjoined the railway at one end and the stables of Redcar Racecourse at the other. They were named after council Aldermen - Scott, Soppett, Hanson, Herschell, Holder and Elton.
The couple already had two sons when they arrived in Redcar, Joseph Stanley and Arthur Reginald - but soon after my father, Albert Edward was born followed by George Ernest. Unusually, for someone of his class and income level, Joe was able to buy one of the houses he had worked on, number 37 Scott Street, and this house remained in the family for over 50 years.
Joe went to war and returned damaged and unable to work. He was with the Teesside Pioneers in some of the fighting on the Somme and received a stomach wound. He was discharged and to my knowledge - as I only have this information from my father - he never worked again. He kept up his trade union payments, probably knowing this would help funeral bills and he died in 1928, after eleven years of illness.
My grandma kept going. She had four working sons - at least until the depression hit. She put the sons in the outhouse in the back yard in the summer months. They slept there whilst their two bedrooms were given over to bed and breakfast guests. She seems to have been a Trojan and Joe, from what I know, was a quiet, kind man. A man who went to war voluntarily, a bit of a hero in my eyes.
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Cpl. Sydney Smith Spence MID. 12th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment My dad, Sydney Spence never spoke of the war but after his death little bits came out. He was Mentioned in Despatches on 7th November 1917 no more information came to light. He also reenlisted in WW2 were my mother said he gained a commission and awarded the Military Medal but verified as we don't have his number only the Pioneers. My dad finished the war in the Home Guard due to some incident in a POW camp in Scotland. He's medals were lost/stolen we've only got a certificate of his MID signed by Winston Churchill Secretary of State.
I was so proud of him I joined the Coldstream Guards and that pleased him greatly. Born in 1890's he altered it that many times to get in army he died not knowing his right age. I think my dad served his country to the full. Well done pops RIP.
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Lt. Harold Bloom 12th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment (d.14th Feb 1917) Lt. Harold Bloom, 12th Battalion, Yorkshire Regt was killed 14th February, 1917
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Pte. John Wiseman Holmes 12th Battalion Prince of Wales Own (Yorkshire Regiment) (d.13th Dec 1917) John Wiseman Holmes served with the 12th Battalion Prince of Wales Own (Yorkshire Regiment). He was aged 34 when he died on 13th December 1917.
He was born in Leeds in 1883, he lived and enlisted in Jarrow. On the 1911 census he is recorded as John Wiseman Holmes age 27 Dock Labourer in Shipyard is with his wife Margaret Davis Holmes (nee Smith) and son at 135 Salem Street, Jarrow.
John is buried in Mory Abbey Military Cemetery, Mory and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
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Pte. Frederick Dean 12th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment (d.11th Apr 1918) Frederick Dean died age 35. He was born in Jarrow in 1883 and lived there. He enlisted at Wallsend. He was the son of Charles and Margaret Dean (nee Brice) of Jarrow. On the 1911 census he is listed as Frederick Dean age 28, Tube worker at Tube Works, lodging with his sister and brother in law, Marian and Charles Anderson, at 7 Charles Street, Jarrow
Frederick is buried in Croix-Du-Bac British Cemetery Steenwerck and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
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Pte. John Thomas Hyde 12th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment (d.26th Nov 1917) My grandfather, John Thomas Hyde, was lost to us in 1917. His son and grandsons still live in Middlesbrough.
Editor's Note:
Private John Thomas Hyde. 20765. served with the 12th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Mary Jane Goodchild; husband of Dorothy Jane Hyde, of 1, Cook St., Middlesbrough. The 1911 census gives his address as 4 Dalbys Place, Richmond Street, Middlesbrough - John Thomas Hyde (30) General labourer iron worker, Dorothy Jane (27) wife, John Thomas 8 mths son, Emily Isabel 3 daughter. Born and enlisted in Middlesbrough, he died 26th November 1917. Aged 36. John died of wounds and is buried in Achiet-Le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extention.
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Pte. John O'Boyle 12th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment (d.11th Apr 1918) John O'Boyle was killed during the Battle of Lys.
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