This photograph hangs in the Outpost Office of the 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment (the Green Howards) in Trinity Church, Richmond. The Officers are identified in the larger photo that opens up when you select the thumbnail, below. There are further details on each individual Officer in the pages devoted to the photos of individual soldiers.

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Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, - Guernsey, 1913.

Peter Rudd (<peter.rudd7@ntlworld.com>), grandson of Private E J Rudd, has provided this photograph. It shows a group of soldiers of the 2nd Battalion on a recruiting exercise in Guernsey in 1913.
Private E J Rudd, Peter's grandfather, is behind the Corporal, - the man with his cap on the skew.

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Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, - 1919.

This group of soldiers of the 2nd Battalion is, allegedly, all that remained in 1919 of the original Battalion who went entered the War in 1914. The group of soldiers was photographed outside the old Gallowgate Barracks in Richmond.
Identified so far are;-
Corporal Tom Riordan (seated second from left)
Private Tom Everitt (fourth from left, back row).
Sergeant (later Major) Frank Allen (seated second from right)

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Bill Danby (<bandl.danby@ntlworld.com>) has very kindly provided the following photos of soldiers of the 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, at camp before the outbreak of war. The photographs are also to be found on BIll's website, - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bandl.danby/001BnIndex.html, which provides a history of the 4th Battalion in the First World War, together with details of casualties in the 4th Battalion.
The following have been identified in the photo, and are individually shown in the pages for individual soldier's photos;-

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Private Fred Appleton (back row, extreme right) Charles Preston (middle row, extreme right) Corporal Herbert Cook (middle row, second from right)	A postcard (from J Wood to J Robson), - text on the right, showing a group of band members of the 4th Battalion at Camp in 1913. Private Fred Appleton is 2nd from the right, back row.

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Peter Appleton (<peter.appleton3@ntlworld.com>) has provided some photos which show his grandfather, Lance Corporal Fred Appleton of the 4th Battalion, together with groups of soldiers in the band and in camp. We are extremely grateful to Peter Appleton for use of these photos. Click on one of the small images below to be presented with a larger version in a new window. Click anywhere in the window that opens to close it

The 4th Battalion Camp was held between 26 July and 8 August 1913. Both the Cleveland Standard and the North Eastern Daily Gazette files almost daily reports on this Camp. These reports are shown below as a PDF file. The reports contain many names, and are worth reading for a historical insight into the life of the Battalion at that time.

Newspaper Reports on the 4th Battalion Camp, Summer 1913

Two photos of the Pickering Company of the 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment (Territorials) showing them leaving Pickering Station by train for Scarborough and Divisional Camp in August 1914.
(Note the troop of Boy Scouts lined up to see them off).
The two photos are courtesy of the Beck Isle Museum, Pickering.

This photograph was published in the September 2008 issue of "The Green Howard". The photograph is remarkable as it shows the Officers of the 6th Battalion immediately prior to embarkation for service in the Dardenelles. Of these 30 men who took part in the Gallipoli landings, only 3 survived intact; 16 were killed and 11 were wounded.

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Alan Kendall (<alan.kendall@tesco.net>) has sent us a postcard photo of the 10th Battalion, taken in 1915 when the Battalion was billeted in Aylesbury.
Alan's grandfather, Private Mark Kendall, is on the right of the back row.