The Beck Isle Museum Great War Project
Remembrance - The Yorkshire Regiment, First World War
The Beck Isle Museum Great War Project
Names Beginning with "D"
The Beck Isle Museum Great War Project
 Danby Francis Godfrey Lieut.     Killed 28 Dec 1917    
5th Bn Yorkshire Regt.                
Son of Lovel and Emma Danby, of Brompton-by-Sawdon, Yorks. Resided at Green Farm, Brompton - 4th son of Mr & Mrs Lovel Danby of Swan Hill, Wykenham, aged 32 had been on service for 3 years and has two serving brothers. (Y.G. 12.1.18.)
  
TYNE COT CEMETERY, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen
 Brompton & Sawdon Memorial Cross
Davies Joseph Pte 13208   Killed 23 Dec 1915    
9th Bn. Yorkshire Regt.           B. Guisborough
E. Middlesbrough
R. Upsall, Guisborough		    
 
BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION (NORD), I D 50 Guisborough Parish Church War Memorial
Davies Sam Pte 3/8769   Killed 12 Mar 1915    
2nd Bn Yorkshire Regt.           B. Marske, Redcar
E. Stokesley
R. Guisborough		    
   
LE TOURET MEMORIAL Guisborough Parish Church War Memorial
Dawson J G Pte        
                 
Son of Mr & Mrs W Dawson of West End, Kirbymoorside was wounded and captured but escaped. (Y.G. 13/4/18)
  Memorial Hall Wall Tablet Kirbymoorside
Daynes James Pte 8654   Killed 18 Oct 1917    
8th Bn Yorkshire Regt.                
Photo on page "Individual Photos - D"  
HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY Guisborough Parish Church War Memorial
Dickinson Arthur L Pte 28325   Killed 7 Oct 1916    
9th Bn Yorkshire Regt.           B. Snainton
E. Scarborough
R. Snainton
    
 
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Pier and Face 3 A and 3 D. Snainton Village Memorial Cross
Dickinson Smailes Pte 242717   Died 18 May 1917    
5th Bn Yorkshire Regt.           B. Snainton
E. Scarborough
R. Snainton		    
   
SNAINTON (ST. STEPHEN) CHURCHYARD Snainton Village Memorial Cross
Dickinson Walter Pte 3632   Killed 14 June 1916    
5th Bn Yorkshire Regt.           B. Scarborough
E. Scorton, Thirsk
    
 
LINDENHOEK CHALET MILITARY CEMETERY, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen All Saint's, Old Byland
Dobson Fred Pte        
5th Bn Yorkshire Regt                
Served in the South African War gaining a medal for the campaign. He also holds a long service medal with the old volunteer movement.Kirbymoorside (Y.G. 6.3.15) (PHOTO)
  
   
Dodds F          
12th Bn Yorkshire Regt                
 
  Wombleton & Welburn Plaque, Wombleton Village Hall
Dodds H          
                 
   
  PICKERING PRINTED ROLL OF HONOUR - BECK ISLE MUSEUM
Douglas Ernest Pte 2543 20 Killed 6 July 1916    
5th Bn Yorkshire Regt           E. Malton
R. Pickering		    
Son of Frederick and Isobel Douglas, of Pickering, Yorks.
LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY, VII. D. 18.
 PICKERING PRINTED ROLL OF HONOUR - BECK ISLE MUSEUM
Pickering Town Memorial
Douthwaite Robert Pte 36419 22 Killed 7 June 1917    
9th Bn Yorkshire Regt           E. Helmsley    
Son of Mr & Mrs G Douthwaite of Sproxton, Helmsley. Listed on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium
  
  Helmsley Churchyard Memorial Cross
Sproxton, St.Chad's Churchyard Memorial
Dowson C
 Corporal 28321   Killed 21 June 1917    
13th Bn Yorkshire Regt.           Redcar    
 
FINS NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, SOREL-LE-GRAND  
Dowson John William Pte 203088 20 Killed 4 May 1917    
4th Bn. Yorkshire Regt.           B. Rosedale
E. Stokesley
R. Gt. Broughton		    
Son of Mrs. S. J. Fawcett, of The Holme, Great Broughton, Stokesley, Yorks.  
MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT, III. G. 12A. Rosedale On Pickering Town Memorial
Dresser Harry L
 Pte 27323 26 Killed 3 Aug 1917    
2nd Bn Yorkshire Regt.           B. Topcliffe
E. Catton
R. Topcliffe		    
Only son of the late E. and H. E. Dresser, of ""Sunnyside,"" Topcliffe, Thirsk, Yorks.



LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, XVII. G. 5A.  
Dresser Tom Pte 28425
then
138867 Machine Gun Corps
      
7th Bn Yorkshire Regt.                
V.C. Winner, born at Lawnd House Farm, Huby
  
   
Duck J
          
5th Bn. Yorkshire Regt.                
4.8.14 at Scarborough: York & Durham Brigade. Northumbrian Division 5 - 12 August at Hull then Hammersknott Park, Darlington. 16.10.14 to Billets at Newcastle. 17.5.15 landed at Boulogne. 14.5.15 formation became 150th Bde. 50th Div. 15.7.18 reduced to cadre and to Dippe area on L of C. 16.8.18 to 116th Bde. 39th Div at Cucq, near Etaples. 6.11.18 demobilized
  Wombleton & Welburn Plaque, Wombleton Village Hall
Dunn Harold Peacock Pte 11487   Killed 10 July 1916    
8th Bn. Yorkshire Regt.           B. Whitby
E. Middlesbrough
R. Guisborough		    
Son of Elizabeth Dunn, of "Harbour View", Cowbar, Staithes, Yorks, and the late Robert Dunn; husband of Mary Jane Dunn, of 35, Station St., Middlesbrough.

There are 3 (three) other H Dunn names who served with the Yorkshire Regt and who were killed in the First World War. 1)2810 Pte Harold Gordon Dunn of the 5th Battalion, Son of Joseph and Martha E. Dunn, of Middleton-on-the-Wolds, Driffield, Yorks.
and 2) 22386 Pte H T Dunn, buried in Hinderwell Cemetery (nr. Runswick Bay) and 3) 29849 Pte Henry Dunn from Nottingham.		  
LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY Guisborough Parish Church War Memorial
Dunnill George Henry
 Pte 27855   Killed 31 July 1917    
2nd Bn. Yorkshire Regt.           B. Easingwold
E. Easingwold		    
 
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Panel 33 Easingwold Cenotaph
Dunning Albert Ernest Pte 30581 20 Killed 28 Dec 1916    
2nd Bn. Yorkshire Regt.           B. Cold Kirby
E. Thirsk
R. Scawton		    
Son of Christopher and Elizabeth Dunning, of Cold Kirby, Thirsk, Yorks.  
WARLINCOURT HALTE BRITISH CEMETERY, SAULTY, Pas de Calais
St.Michael's, Cold Kirby
Dunning Percival Pte 8298   Killed 7 June 1917    
8th Bn. Yorkshire Regt.           B. Thornaby
E. Richmond
R. York		    
 
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Panel 33 Coxwold, St. Michael's
Coxwold & Yearsley Roll of Honour St. Michaels,
Dunnington Alfred Pte 3321   Killed 11 Nov 1916    
5th Bn. Yorkshire Regt.           E. Malton
R. Amotherby		    
   
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Pier and Face 3 A and 3 D. Amotherby St Helen's Churchyard Cross

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