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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NOVEMBER 1917. LAST DAYS OF PASSCHENDAELE.
1st NOVEMBER. The Btn was relieved by the 8th Btn D.L.I. "after a very trying time of 6 days in shell holes and mud."
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21190 Pte Bell William, Henry. Home at South Bank, N Yorks. Born at Barrow in Furness and enlisted at Middlesbrough. Killed in action. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
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201411 Pte Clark Herbert, Henry. Home at - 62 Cromwell Rd, S Bank, Middlesbrough, N Yorks, town of enlistment. Died of wounds. Age 26. Buried at Dozinghem Military Cemetery.
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201878 Pte Elsworth William. Home at - 32 Green Rd, Skelton in Cleveland, N Yorks. Born at Wakefield, Yorks and enlisted at Northallerton. Died of wounds. Age 38. Buried at Dozinghem Military Cemetery.
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Flanders Mud.
[Picture courtesy of - "The Heritage of the Great War".]
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33142 Pte Fuller James, John. Home at - Chedgrave Loddon Norfolk, place of birth. Enlisted at Norwich. Died. Age 20. Buried at Longuenesse St Omer Souvenir Cemetery. ex Norfolk Regt.
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201909 Pte Pitts John. Home at Bradford , Yorks and enlisted at Richmond, N Yorks. Died of wounds. Buried at Wimereux Communal Cemetery.
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21180 Pte Kerr Thomas. Home at - 20 Grier St, Parkhead, Glasgow. Middlesbrough, N Yorks, place of enlistment. Born at Ballyhag, Monlaghan. Died of wounds. Age 28. Buried at Dozinghem Military Cemetery.
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201330 Pte Wilkinson William, Dixon. Home at 12 South St, Guisborough, N Yorks, place of enlistment Died of wounds. Age 27. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
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Ypres Salient 1917.
The Green line shows the Front after the withdrawal of 1915.
The Red line shows the Front at November 1917 and the Blue the section where the 4th Btn were operating.
Just to the East of Ypres is Potijze, where the Transport and QM Stores were shelled on the 23rd December causing severe loss.
6th NOVEMBER. The Btn moved to Sarawak Camp, which was in a very bad state, unsanitary and muddy.
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45105 Pte Riley Lance. Born and enlisted at Jarrow, Co Durham. Died of wounds on the 7th. Age 23. Buried at Mendinghem Military Cemetery.
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24997 Pte Duckworth Herbert, J. Home at - 87 Laing St, Grangetown, N Yorks. Born Eston and enlisted at Middlesbrough, N Yorks. Died of wounds on the 9th. Age 24. Buried at Eston Cemetery, N Yorks.
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11th NOVEMBER. The Btn entrained at International Corner Station and travelled to Watten, a village to the West of St Omer, far from the Front. From Watten they marched to Tournhem where they found very good billets in "ideal surroundings." Here they stayed until the 1st December.
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244709 L/Cpl Bruce Harold. Home at Beverley E Yorks. Enlisted at Guisborough, N Yorks. Died of wounds on the 19th. Buried at Beverley [St Mary] Church Cemetery.
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The Tyne Cot Memorial.
Situated about 9k from Ypres the Memorial is on the North East edge of Tyne Cot Cemetery.
It commemorates around 35,000 men who were killed in the area and have no known grave.
In the case of the UK, men who lost their lives after 16th August 1917 are remembered here.
Those who died before this date are on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres town,
25 men of the 4th Yorks Battalion are commemorated.
[Picture courtesy of - "WW1Cemeteries.com".]
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30370 L/Cpl Hayton Alfred. Home at - Wass Ampleforth N Yorks. Born South Cave, Yorks and enlisted at Coxwold, Yorks. Died of wounds on the 20th. Buried at Etaples Military Cemetery.
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204024 Pte Ware Frank. Home at 2 Middlecave Rd, Malton N Yorks, place of birth and enlistment. Died on the 30th. Age 19. Buried at New Malton Cemetery, N Yorks.
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30th NOVEMBER. Diary records effective strength at start of month as 40 Officers and 894 other ranks and 42 Officers and 913 other ranks at the end. Lt H.C. Hale had died of wounds. 5 other ranks wounded and 2 missing.
8 Officers and 172 other ranks had been received as reinforcements.
2nd DECEMBER. The Btn marched to Le Bas and on the 10th travelled by train to Brandhoek, about 7k to the West of Ypres. The next day they marched to Whitby Camp and were used as Divisional Working Battalion.
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33038 Pte Padget Edward, Percy. Home at Brotton Yorks, place of birth. Enlisted at Middlesbrough, N Yorks. Died of wounds. Age 21. Buried at Ypres Reservoir Cemetery.
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