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Remembrance
- The Yorkshire Regiment, First World War Links
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Listed here, to help you, are some of the websites associated with this one which you may find useful.
| The Beck Isle Museum, Pickering | 1914 - 1919 Great War Project. The Museum with start-up funding from the 'Sharing Museum Skills Millennium Awards Fund' is gathering material relating to both Pickering and the other towns and villages within Ryedale during the First World War. | |
| North East War Memorials Project | The North East War memorials Project (NEWMP) aims to record every War Memorial between the River Tweed and the River Tees. The NEWMP is intended to assist the public, Local History Groups and Schools, to learn about and research their neighbourhood War Memorials, and record the results. | |
| Walking With Ghosts | A website provided by the Regimental Museum of the Green Howards designed to people discover something about the technology of warfare, and how it affected people's lives, in the First World War and after. | |
| The Regimental Museum of the Green Howards | The Museum for the famous North Yorkshire infantry regiment. | |
| Creative Minds | The 'Creative Minds' project works with Museums Libraries and Archives across the Yorkshire and Humber Region, to provide young people with learning opportunities in Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths (S.T.E.M). | |
| The Cleveland Family History Society | The Society is more formally known as The Cleveland, North Yorkshire and South Durham Family History Society. | |
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission | A vital website for researching information on those who fell in the service of their Country, from the First World War onwards. | |
| War Memorials Trust | War Memorials Trust is the only charity working solely to protect and conserve the estimated 65,000 War Memorials in the UK. | |
| WW1Cemeteries.com | A site of remembrance, and a comprehensive guide to the military cemeteries and memorials of Belgium, France, Great Britain and throughout the world. | |
| The 1st/4th Battalion, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment | A website by Bill Danby providing the history of the 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment in the First World War. This website lists all the dead Other Ranks, with details of the date of death and where they died. | |
| Bill Danby's Website for Skelton | Bill Danby has an exceptionally comprehensive website covering Skelton, - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bandl.danby/, and one of the pages on this website provides data on the names on the memorial in All Saints' Church (New) in Skelton. | |
| The Northallerton War Memorials Project | Steve Metcalfe's website for the Northallerton, Brompton, and Romanby War Memorials. | |
| Dave Morris' Website for War Memorials in the Tadcaster area. | Dave Morris runs a very comprehensive website for War Memorials in the Tadcaster area, - http://www.tadcaster-ww1-memorials.com/, and this includes a page for Healaugh, where further information on the Brooksbank brothers can be found. | |
| The Roll of Honour | This site is dedicated to those men and women who fell fighting for their country. Recorded here are various war memorials within a variety of counties. | |
| Fricourt and Mametz Battlefields | A full description of the battlefields of Fricourt and Mametz. The 7th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment suffered grievously on 1st July 1916 at Fricourt. | |
| Craven's Part in the Great War | A website dedicated to the memories of the men and women from the Craven district (Wensleydale and Skipton area of Yorkshire) who gave their lives for king and country in the First World War, 1914 -1919. | |
| United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials | Records of war memorials commemorating all wars located throughout the United Kingdom. They range from familiar community crosses and statues to less common memorials like bus shelters, sundials, park benches and even an island. | |
| The Imperial War Museum | The Museum spans a huge range of activities not only at its main London location but also at its four further branches: the Cabinet War Rooms in Whitehall, the historic ship HMS Belfast, moored in the Pool of London, Imperial War Museum Duxford near Cambridge, and Imperial War Museum North in Trafford. The information on its website tells you about the permanent displays, the archives, special exhibitions, forthcoming events, education programmes, and other matters relating to war. | |
| Soldiers Died in the Great War | The website for the CD-ROM that lists over 700,000 casualties of the First World War. | |
| Buckinghamshire Remembers | A website devoted to paying homage to Buckinghamshire men who paid the supreme sacrifice and never lived to enjoy the relative peace that followed. The website contains photos of many Buckinghamshire War Memorials, and has a search facility to locate the names of the men recorded on these memorials. |
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