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Remembrance
- The Yorkshire Regiment, First World War Introduction
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This website is dedicated to attempting to record something of the men of Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment (the Yorkshires) who fought in the First World War.
In the First World War, the Yorkshire Regiment raised 24 Battalions. 65,000 men served in these Battalions. And of these 65,000 men, 7,500 died and 24,000 were wounded.
Due to the very large numbers of men who fought with the regiment in that conflict, and the wide geographical area that they came from, it is impossible to do complete justice to the task. However, the website will record as much as is possible of the men from the regiment who came from the North of Yorkshire. If YOU have any information that you think belongs on these pages, please let us know.
This website started as an adjunct to the Green Howards Museum's Walking With Ghosts website. This particular site was designed to help schoolchildren discover something about the technology of warfare, and how it affected people's lives, in the First World War and after. Part of the Walking With Ghosts website was aimed at showing the terrible human cost of warfare.
However, at the same time, the Beck Isle Museum in Pickering were compiling a database of men from the the North of Yorkshire who fought and died in the First World War as part of the Beck Isle Museum Great War Project. This database and memorials recording project was designed and established by Roger Dowson with funding support from the Sharing Museum Skills Millenniun Awards Fund and with assistance from Creative Minds. Roger Dowson worked on secondment to the Beck Isle Museum from the Fusiliers Museum, Lancashire who also supported the project idea.
The Beck Isle Museum has kindly allowed us to have access to their database of names of men of the Yorkshire Regiment who were killed in the First World War and whose names are recorded on North Yorkshire memorials.
Together, therefore, with material from the Beck Isle Museum,
the Green Howards Museum, and much individually provided data we are attempting
to record as much as possible of the men of the Yorkshire Regiment who
fought and died in the First World War. The information on this website
will include data recorded from local War
Memorials, the Memorials and Graves of
the men who died, the Rolls of Honour
found in towns and parishes, and photographs
of these men.
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