Home. Origins of the Battalion.
Page 1. Start of the First World War.
Page 2. To the Ypres Salient.
Page 3. Ypres. The Battle of St Julien.
Page 4. April 1915. Ypres. Gas.
Page 5. Battle of St Julien losses.
Page 6. New Division Name.
Page 7. The Battle of Bellewaarde.
Page 8. Bellewaarde Losses. Sanctuary Wood.
Page 9. Neuve Eglise, Kemmel Sector.
Page 10. August 1915. To Armentieres.
Page 11. Sep/Oct 1915. Armentieres.
Page 12. October 1915. Armentieres.
Page 13. Oct/Nov 1915. Armentieres.
Page 14. Nov/Dec 1915. To Merris.
Page 15. Back to the Ypres Salient.
Page 16. Jan 1916. Armagh Wood.
Page 17. Feb 1916. Hill 60.
Page 18. Mine Explosion.
Page 19. Feb 1916. Ypres. Hill 60.
Page 20. Armagh Wood. CO Killed.
Page 21. Mar/Apr 1916. Kemmel.
Page 22. Apr/May 1916. Fletre. Kemmel.
Page 23. June 1916. Friendly Fire Kemmel.
Page 24. Jun/Jul 1916. Kemmel.
Page 25. July 1916. Kemmel.
Page 26. Aug 1916. To the Somme.
Page 27. Battle of Flers Courcelette.
Page 28. Sep 1916. Flers-Courcelette.
Page 29. The Thiepval Memorial.
Page 30. Flers-Courcelette. Losses.
Page 31. Flers-Courcelette. Attack repelled.
Page 32.Training. Martinpuich.
Page 33. In the Line near Flers.
Page 34. Nov 1916. Martinpuich. Flers.
Page 35. Flers. To Belloy.
Page 36. Feb/Mar 1917. Belloy.
Page 37. April 1917. To Arras.
Page 38. Capt D.P. Hirsch. V.C.
Page 39. The Arras Memorial.
Page 40. The Arras Memorial.
Page 41. Arras Burial Sites.
Page 42. Arras. Famechon.
Page 43. May 1917. Famechon. Bayencourt.
Page 44. June 1917 Back in the Line. Arras.
Page 45. Sep 1917. Arras. Wancourt.
Page 46. Oct 1917. Back to Ypres.
Page 47. Nov 1917. Passchendaele.
Page 48. Jan 1918. Ypres.
Page 49. Feb 1918. Last of Ypres.
Page 50. The Battle of St Quentin.
Page 51. German Offensive. Michael.
Page 52. German Advance. Pozieres Memorial.
Page 53. Losses on both sides.
Page 54. From the Somme to the Lys.
Page 55. April 1918. Battle of Estaires.
Page 56. Ploegsteert Memorial.
Page 57. From the Lys to the Aisne.
Page 58. German Offensive. Blucher-Yorck.
Page 59. May 1918. 150th Brigade decimated.
Page 60. End of the 4th Yorks.
Page 61. Last Weeks of War.
Page 62. Prisoners of War.
Page 63. Prisoners of War.
Page 64. Prisoners of War.
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OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1915. ARMENTIERES.
21st OCTOBER. Only casualty was one man injured by a bullet flying out of the fire and landing on his foot.
22nd OCTOBER. Our Artillery practised as usual in the afternoon on Wez Maquart village.
25th OCTOBER. 7 men were admitted to Hospital. The Bn Diary reports a few men going in and out of Hospital each week, presumably victims of Trench conditions.
26th OCTOBER. After a relatively quiet period in the Trenches the Bn was relieved by the 4th Yorks.
27th OCTOBER. Lts Welsh, Constantine and Hutchinson and 60 men [15 chosen from each Coy] were taken to Bailleul by motor, where they took part in a review by His Majesty, the King.
28th OCTOBER. The Bn relieved the 5th Yorks in trenches 71, 72 and 73 and found the outside dugouts swimming in water.
4 platoons of the 12th West Yorks, who were attached to the Bn lost their way for 2 hours, but eventually turned up.
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3713 Pte O'Connor Patrick. Home at Gateshead Durham. Born at Sherburn Hill and enlisted at Houghton Le Spring, Co Durham. Killed in action. Commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial.
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King George V.
On the 27th October 1915 63 men of the Bn attended a review by the King at Bailleul.
29th OCTOBER.
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3397 Pte Catterick James. Home at - Danby Wiske, Northallerton, N Yorks and enlisted Northallerton. He was in "X" Company and was killed by a "Whiz-bang" at 2 p.m. Age 22. Buried at Chapelle D'Armentieres Military Cemetery.
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3437 Pte Wheatley Ray. Home at 122 High St, Brotton, N Yorks. Died of wounds. Age 18. Buried at Bailleul Communal [Hospital] Cemetery Extension Nord.
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30th OCTOBER. Peaceful warm day and the wind dried things up in the morning.
Trench strength was 22 Officers, 647 other ranks. Fighting strength was 28 Officers and 772 other ranks.
31st OCTOBER.
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2653 Pte Gott William, Read. Home at Marske, Cleveland Yorks. Enlisted at Skelton in Cleveland, N Yorks. Died of wounds at the Field Ambulance. Buried at Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery Armentieres.
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The 4th Yorks Battalion Band.
Place and exact date is not known. The only person identified is Fred Appleton from Skelton in Cleveland, front row, second from left. He survived the War.
[Photograph kindly donated by his Grandson, Peter Appleton.]
1st NOVEMBER.
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2511 L/Cpl Glass John Gordon Home at Darlington Co Durham. Enlisted at Northallerton, N Yorks. Killed in action. Age 22. Buried at Chapelle D'Armentieres New Military Cemetery
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It rained nearly all day. 3 men of Y Company were admitted to Hospital.
2nd NOVEMBER. Rained all day. The CO of the Bn took over the duties of Brigadier during the absence on leave of Brig General Bush.
8 men went on a Divisional Grenade School Course of Instruction.
3rd NOVEMBER. Diary - "It rained all morning, but cleared up about noon and we had a fine evening to march out to our Rests Billets in Armentieres.
We were glad to get away from the mud and water in the Trenches." |
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