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The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own) can be traced back to 1685, during the Great War 21 Battalions were raised.In August 1914 the East Yorks consisted of two Regular battalions the 1st and 2nd, a Special Reserve 3rd Battalion and two Territorial battalions the 4th and 5th Cyclists. After the outbreak of war eight Service (Kitchener) battalions were raised the 6th to 13th as well as two Reserve the 14th and 15th battalions and the 1st and 2nd Garrison battalions. The 4th Battalion TF formed a second and third line battalion, the 2/4th and 3/4th.
Battalions during the Great War.
- 1st Battalion
- 2nd Battalion
- 3rd Battalion (York East Riding Regiment of Militia)
- 4th Battalion
- 2/4th Battalion
- 5th (Cyclist) Battalion
- 6th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers)
- 7th (Service) Battalion
- 8th (Service) Battalion
- 9th (Reserve) Battalion
- 10th (1st Hull) Battalion (Hull Commercials)
- 11th (2nd Hull) Battalion (Hull Tradesmen)
- 12th (3rd Hull) Battalion (Hull Sportsmen )
- 13th (4th Hull) Battalion (Hull T'Others)
- 14th (Reserve) (Hull) Battalion
- 15th (Reserve) Battalion
- 17th (Transport Workers) Battalion
- 1st Garrison Battalion
- 2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion
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Those known to have served with The East Yorkshire Regiment during The Great War
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- Pte. Montague William "Br" Christopher 11th Btn. (d.13th Nov 1916) Read his Story.
- Cpl. George Edmund Hinch 7th Btn. (d.9th Feb 1917) Read his Story.
- Pte. Joseph Henry Ledger 10th Battalion (d.28th June 1918) Read his Story.
- L/Cpl. Frank Owers 161st Coy. (d.5th Apr 1918) Read his Story.
- Pte. John Shores 14th Battalion (d.13th Nov 1916) Read his Story.
- Lt Cecil M. Slack MC. 4th Btn. Read his Story.
- Pte. Frederick Turner 13th Battalion (d.10th Sep 1918) Read his Story.
- Pte. Richard Henry Webb 4th Btn Read his Story.
Pte. Montague William "Br" Christopher 11th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment (d.13th Nov 1916)
Just another name in a foreign field who left a wife and small children and whose memories died with them. You are still remembered by those who followed many tears later.
Pte. Richard Henry Webb 4th Btn East Yorks Regiment
Richard Henry Webb was my mother's father, he was born in Bermondsey 1st Feb 1896 (to a family with roots in both East London and Hull). He lost his father in 1899, and his mother in 1906, and grew up in the family of his aunt in Hull. He enlisted 7th Nov 1912 with 4th Bn East Yorks Regt and served with Army Cyclist Corps and Royal Horse Guards.
On the back of his cycling map he has written the following: "V Corps Army Cyclist", "My Best Friend in France and Belgium 1915-1918", "Landed April 17th 1915", "Ypres 2nd Battle", "R.H.Webb". His Movement Order (in very frail condition) is dated 11 December 1917, and bears the stamps "Poperinghe" "Hazebrouck".
By late January 1918 he was convalescing,I don't know any details of his injuries, in Stamford, Lincs, where he struck up a relationship with Cathie Piggott, my grandmother, just before his 22nd birthday. The relationship started very suddenly, and became serious so quickly that Cathie ditched her current boyfriend just as he had decided to propose to her! They became engaged in May, and were married by licence on 23rd October in Stamford, his address on the Bishop's Licence was "The Parish of Great Bentley, Colchester in the county of Essex".
Dick Webb transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, taking the Service Number 3157, in February 1919, and was disembodied on April 21st. He enlisted with the Territorials at Stamford in 1920, and stayed with them until 1923. He died in October 1936, on their 18th wedding anniversary, when he collapsed with a heart attack at his garden gate, having just been to his allotment to get some vegetables for Sunday lunch. My grandmother noted that the doctor told her "his arteries were like a man of 60, and it would be aggravated by his war service". He left a widow and four children aged 5 to 15. His only son, Arthur, died aged 19 in December 1944 on the Arctic Convoy when his ship HMS Cassandra was torpedoed near Murmansk.
Cpl. George Edmund Hinch 7th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment (d.9th Feb 1917)
George Hinch was my Great Uncle, he was killed on the 9th of February 1917, the sad thing about it was that his brother James was killed on the First Day of the Somme Offensive. They were the son's of John Milton Hinch and Anice Cossy Hinch, from Sheffield.
Pte. John Shores 14th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (d.13th Nov 1916)
Jack Shores was another young man, an ordinary insurance clerk, with only a name on the Thiepval Monument. My uncle joined 29/10/15. His service attestation form with his signature has been located on line but no photo has been found.
Pte. Frederick Turner 13th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (d.10th Sep 1918)
Frederick is my Great Grandpa Brother - (George) I would like to seek further info if anyone can help please. I believe the following to be true:- Frederick joined the Army in Hull - T'others - East Yorkshire Regiment I have Frederick's war medal with his name inscribed Frederick was a Private in the Army and lost his life fighting for his country on 10 Sept 1918 - as did so many others - brave and honourable men until the end and their courage lives on in my heart. Fredrick is buried in France - Pas De Calais - Vis En Artois Memorial - Panel 4 Although I never knew Frederick - he seems very close to me Do you know of anyone who may have joined? - I would love to hear
L/Cpl. Frank Owers 161st Coy. Machine Gun Corps Infantry (d.5th Apr 1918)
Frank Owers was a great uncle of mine. He joined the East Yorkshire Reigment. Later he transferred to the Machine Gun Corps Infantry and was killed in action 5.4.1918 aged 20. His parents Owen and Ann Awers lived at 1 Wilbeforce Terrace, Campbell St, Anlaby Road, Hull. It is such a shame that he died so young and so close to the end of the war.
Pte. Joseph Henry Ledger 10th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (d.28th June 1918)
Joseph Henry Ledger was the youngest of 3 brothers, the middle of which was my maternal grandfather. I have little knowledge of Joseph, other than that he served with the 10th Battalion of the East Yorks Regiment, he was killed, has no known grave and he had been to visit my Granddad in hospital when he himself had been badly wounded.
I have attempted research over the last 10 years or so – initially finding him on the Commonwealth Graves Commission website. He is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium and in Beverley Minster. Efforts to find out more led to nothing. I discovered that records that might have given insight into the circumstances of his death had been destroyed in London during the Blitz. I have seen a regimental war diary for the day he died – it recorded an attack on a village that went easily with the only non-commissioned casualties being those of men who had strayed into the path of an advancing artillery barrage; friendly fire in other words. As the names of ordinary rank casualties were not recorded in war diaries, it is a long shot to believe that he was one of those men; although that would explain the lack of a body. Though Family lore says he went missing on his way back to his unit after visiting my Granddad at the hospital. I assume that this was in Belgium.
I don’t know why, but I feel an affinity with this young man. Maybe because he looks a bit like I did when I was younger. He was 20 when killed, had lived with his Mum and Dad and was plunged into God knows what. He would never marry, have kids or live to see his brother’s family. I wonder how he would have felt leaving my Granddad to return to his unit. His older brother, John William, had been killed the month before and he had just seen his other brother, crippled for life. What odds would he have given for his own survival?
My mother is the only survivor now of her family, and although no-one has ever asked me to, I feel a responsibility to ensure Joseph Henry is not forgotten.
Everard Wyrall
More information on:East Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War 1914-1918
Everard Wyrall
This history covers all the battalions though only very briefly those that did not go overseas. The author, a prolific writer of divisional/regimental histories follows his customary pattern of arranging his story chronologically with chapters devoted to specific battles and periods of trench warfare. In the margins of the text describing events he notes the dates, as in a diary, and identifies the battalions involved. The Roll of Honour lists the officers alphabetically by ranks without indicating the battalion or date of death; the other ranks are shown by battalions and by ranks within each battalion. Given the number of battalions covered in this single volume the account of all the activities is necessarily compressed, based essentially on the War Diaries, without anecdotal contributions The maps are very good, uncluttered yet displaying tactical detail easy to follow.More information on:East Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War 1914-1918
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