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 1917. BACK TO THE YPRES SALIENT.
6th OCTOBER. The Btn marched to Bradford Camp at Achiet Le Petit, South of Arras.
17th OCTOBER. They entrained at Miraumont and travelled to Cassel from where they marched to Rubrouck.
21st OCTOBER. Btn marched to Arneke and on the next day to Wormhoudt, where they entrained and travelled to Proven.
24th OCTOBER. The Btn moved by train to Elverdinghe where they proceeded to Cariboo Camp.
25th OCTOBER. The Btn relieved the 6th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers and went into reserve to the 149th Infantry Brigade.
26th OCTOBER. Moved into Support in the morning and into the line at night.
During this tour the following men were killed in action and all but 3 are commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial and have no known grave.
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22688 Pte Gotts Herbert. Home at - 7 Tower St, Stockton on Tees, place of birth and enlistment. Age 24. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
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20110 Pte McNally John. Home at S Bank Middlesbrough, place of birth and enlistment.
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28th OCTOBER.
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21185 Pte Brown Arthur. Born and enlisted at Middlesbrough, N Yorks.
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30041 Pte Christie William. Home at - 49 Baker St, Belfast, place of enlistment. Born Shankhill, Co Antrim. Age 20. Ex 40777 Notts and Derbys Regt.
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44320 Pte Dirden James. Home at -42 Union St, Spon Lane, West Bromwich, place of birth. Enlisted at Smethwick. Age 23. Ex S Staffs Regt.
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290469 L/Cpl Fenton Peter. Born and enlisted at Middlesbrough, N Yorks.
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Between the 6th and 25th October the 4th Battalion moved from the Arras sector back to where they had started in April 1915 - the Ypres Salient.
Once again the Battalion were to be thrown into an offensive that had ground to a halt.
Since 1915 troops in this area had been holding the line with no major "pushes".
In June 1917 the "Third Battle of Ypres" had commenced with the successful capture of the Messines ridge to the South of Ypres.
The main assault had begun in July with the aim of breaking the German line to the North East of Ypres.
Torrential rain and the usual stalemate of barbed wire and machine guns caused the operation to be bogged down in enormous loss of life for little ground gained.
The attempt was abandoned in November with the capture of the little Belgian village of Paschendaele, which has given its name to the campaign.
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20971 Pte Henderson James. Born and enlisted at Middlesbrough, N Yorks.
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203174 Pte Oberon Robert. Home at 159 Westgate, Guisborough, N Yorks. Born at Nunthorpe and enlisted at Stokesley, N Yorks. Age 19.
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21195 Pte Peacock John, George. Home at N Ormesby, Middlesbrough, N Yorks, place of birth and enlistment. Age 28.
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202317 Pte Cave Wilfred, Sidney. Home at Little Houghton, Northampton, town of enlistment. Died of wounds. Age 22. Buried at Dozinghem Military Cemetery. Ex 4171 Northants Regt.
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Ruins of Ypres 1917.
[Picture courtesy of - "The Heritage of the Great War".]
29th OCTOBER.
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235094 PteAtkinson Joseph Home at Skelton in Cleveland, N Yorks. Enlisted at Middlesbrough, N Yorks.
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201233 Pte Johnson William. Home at Long St, Thirsk, N Yorks, place of birth. Died of wounds. Age 23.
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203190 Pte Shepherd Alfred. Home at East Heslerton. Enlisted at Scarborough, N Yorks. Age 31.
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30th OCTOBER.
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32833 Pte Buck Alfred. Home at Alne Yorks. Born Whixley Yorks and enlisted at York.
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25069 Pte Foreman Ernest. Enlisted at Middlesbrough, N Yorks. Born at Port Clarence, Co Durham. Died of wounds. Buried at Dozinghem British Cemetery
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235141 Cpl Gordon Edmund, Liddle. Born and enlisted at Sunderland.
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42366 Pte Harris Bertie. Home at - 7 Freemantle St, Eastville, Bristol, place of birth and enlistment. Age 23. Ex Royal Field Artillery.
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Stretcher Bearers Paschendaele.
[Picture courtesy of - "The Heritage of the Great War".]
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200241 Pte Johnson Robert. Home at Yarm, N Yorks, place of birth and enlistment.
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25025 Pte Mankin Albert. Home at - Thornaby N Yorks, place of birth. Enlisted at Stockton on Tees.
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203748 Pte Marchment Coleridge. Born at Salisbury Wilt, and enlisted at Tonypandy, Cadoxton, Cardiff.
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200280 Pte Marwood Norman. Born at Kirby Whiske and enlisted at Thirsk N Yorks. in action. Buried at Canada Farm Cemetery.
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31st OCTOBER. Major B.H. Charlton, OC of the Battalion, signed off the Diary and recorded the Battalion strength at the start of October as 37 Officers and 928 other ranks. He was unable to give the strengths and casualties on this day. |
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