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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NEW DIVISION NAME.
4 MAY.
The Battalion were shelled intermittently all day and retired into a wood.
At 7.30 pm they marched about 20 miles to Steenvoorde, which was where the Northumbrian Division Headquarters was situated.
They arrived at 3 am next day.
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1557 Pte Goodwill Maurice. Home at Helperby N Yorks, place of birth. Enlisted at Brafferton N Yorks. Died of wounds. Buried at Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery.
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713 Sgt Whitehead Wilfred Harold Gill Home at 119 Waterloo Rd, Middlesbrough, N Yorks, town of birth and enlistment. Killed in action Age 24. Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres.
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5 MAY.
The Battalion was billeted at farms to the North of Steenvoorde, where they stayed until the 10th.
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A Belgian town about 12k due west of Ypres.
It was outside the reach of German Artillery and used as a Casualty Clearing station.
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1518 Pte Corps Walter. H; Home at Masham, N Yorks. Born Askew, Bedale and enlisted Bedale. Died of wounds. Age 21. Buried at Le Treport Military Cemetery. Hospital Cemetery, 30k North East of Dieppe.
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1549 Pte Richardson Frankland. Born at Layerthorpe, Yorks and enlisted at Helperby N Yorks. Died of wounds. Age 22. Etretat Churchyard, small town 26k North of Le Havre, site of No 1 General Hospital.
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7 MAY.
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1315 Pte Ball John George.Born and enlisted at Middlesbrough. Died of wounds. Age 21, Buried at Boulogne Eastern [Hospital] Cemetery.
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 | 4th May. 50th Div HQ at Steenvoorde moved to Poperinghe and 10th May 4th Bn to Brandhoek.
10 MAY. The whole York and Durham Brigade were transported by motor bus to Brandhoek, where at 4 pm they bivouacked to the North of the main road on the West side of that place.
11 MAY. The Brigade was moved to huts on the West side of Ypres, where they stayed, until being sent into the line again on the 23rd.
12 MAY. Second Army Headquarters sent the Divisional HQ a notification that their name had been changed.
Henceforth they would be called the 50th [Northumbrian] Division and structured as per the diagram shown here.
While the 4th Battalion were not in the line others were fighting the Battle of Frezenburg Ridge and resisting further German advance.
From the 14th to the 24th the German offensive reduced its ferocity and there was a hope that the Second Battle of Ypres was over. Trenches and defences were strengthened and exhausted men rested. |
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