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Campaign to preserve the view of Hill 60
The City Council of Ieper has granted planning permission for the building of a large "family house" directly opposite the pedestrian entrance to the Hill 60 site, blocking the view of the town of Ypres and the contested land on which so many fought and died.
This goes against Ieper Council's long standing policy:
"...as long as these land parcels remain unbuilt they preserve the vista which the Germans had from Hill 60 and which immediately makes clear why this place was so heavily contested....."
For more information on how to take action and to sign the petition please click here.
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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)
- 6th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers)
- 7th (Service) Battalion
- 8th (Service) Battalion
- 9th (Reserve) Battalion
- Hull Commercials 10th (1st Hull) (Service) Battalion (Hull Pals)
- Hull Tradesmen 11th (2nd Hull) (Service) Battalion (Hull Pals)
- Hull Sportsmen 12th (3rd Hull) (Service) Battalion (Hull Pals)
- T'Others 13th (4th Hull) (Service) Battalion (Hull Pals)
- 14th (Reserve) (Hull) Battalion
- 15th (Reserve) Battalion
- 17th (Transport Workers) Battalion
- 1st Garrison Battalion
- 2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion
Oct 2009 - Please note we currently have a large backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site.
List of those who served with The East Yorkshire Regiment during The Great War
- Pte. Montague William "Br" Christopher 11th Btn. (d.13th Nov 1916) Read his Story.
- Lt Cecil M. Slack MC. 4th Btn. 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.
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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