For the last three months, thirty-three men and women from the 4th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, British Army Reserve have been responsible for force protection duties at the British Army Training Unit in Kenya (BATUK).
In the weeks before Christmas, the Yorkshire & Teesside based reserves from 4 YORKS took over the role at the East African training facility from 1st Bn The Royal Gurkha Rifles (1 RGR).
In the week leading up to Remembrance Day 2021, over 140 officers and soldiers of The Yorkshire Regiment will lay commemorative wreaths at war memorials in 30 towns across the region as well as parading on Remembrance Sunday, 14 November, in Hull; Barnsley, Huddersfield, Middlesbrough and York.
In Remembrance week 2021, we honour the achievements of one of Hull’s own, Private Jack Cunningham VC, whose story of bravery in the face of the enemy has been brought back to life after the restoration of a 104-year-old piece of cinematic history.
John Cunningham, who was usually known as Jack, came from a traveller family and was the eldest son of Charles Cunningham, a licensed pot hawker and his wife Mary Ann. He had six brothers and just like his father, was a hawker.
The mood in East Yorkshire at the end of WW1 will feature in the last of a series of three concerts by the Hull Philharmonic Orchestra.
‘1918: End Game: Armistice and Aftermath’ is to be performed on November 24 at Hull City Hall.
Local Artist Emma Garness is currently transforming a corner of Beverley with mural of a Sweetheart Pin Cushion as part of the Beverley Town Council’s WW1 Centenary commemorations. .
Emma who has worked on a range of projects including the ‘Bankside Gallery’ in Hull is working on her latest project in her home town of Beverley in the Memorial Gardens.
As the anniversary to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I approaches later this year, Molescroft Parish Council has restored the village’s Roll of Honour.
Parish Councillors David Boynton & Jackie Heffer formed a working group, with the aim of restoring the Roll of Honour which lists the names of 20 Molescroft servicemen who took up the call to arms in the conflict. The roll records the death of only one serviceman Lieutenant Edmund Wigfall Military cross.
Members of the local darts community united as they supported fellow player Dan Allinson in his quest to raise money for the charity Hull4Heroes.
The charity support veterans by helping renovate or alter their homes enabling them to where possible retain a level of independence.
Around a hundred soldiers marched through Beverley with bayonets fixed, colours flying and bands playing as they exercised their freedom rights.
Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of The Yorkshire Regiment took part in the Freedom Parade on Friday, 30 June in Beverley led by commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Sam Humpris.
Over a hundred soldiers will march through Beverley and Bridlington with bayonets fixed, colours flying and bands playing as they exercise their freedom rights.
Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of The Yorkshire Regiment will take part in the Freedom Parades on Friday, 30 June led by commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Sam Humpris.
With over 17 million dead, and 20 million wounded; the scale of the tragedy created by the First World War is perhaps indescribable.
It is hardly surprising that portrayals of this conflict are almost always affected by the sadness and emotion that follows with such an enormous loss of life – and rightly so.
Hull City Council, in partnership with a number of key stakeholders including local rugby league club Hull FC and the armed forces, will commemorate the life, career and bravery of one of the city’s greatest heroes, a century on from Harrison being posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross in 1917.
The former rugby star, Sutton resident and Lime Street School teacher was killed in action during World War One in May 1917 at Oppy Wood, France.
Beverley Minster, the Parish church of St John, will hold a special service to commemorate Agincourt 600 at 1730 on Sunday 25 October 2015.
A display about ‘One family’s war: The Johnson Brothers, of Lockwood Street, Hull’ is now featuring at the Beverley Treasure House.
The 4th Leven Real Ale festival takes place on the 20th and 21st of June at the New Inn Leven. Set within the Historic Georgian courtyard people will get the chance to try a fantastic range or beer and cider served from the famous stable bars nestled at the back of the courtyard.
Local restaurant owner Tina Cerutti, who is a trustee with charity Age UK, has seen an idea for a cycling fundraiser become a reality.
Our grandfather Private John Denson Baron, was part of Kitchener’s ‘New Army’ a member of the 12th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment (Sportsman’s, 3rd Hull Pals).1 He died in France on 3rd May 1917.
When the Great War broke out in 1914, there were around 733,000 men in the British Army. A further 4.8 million British patriots were recruited during the war effort and it is well documented that far too many of these men never returned home
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