Yorkshire Regiment Memorials Overseas, - The Pozieres Memorial

Panoramic view of the Pozieres Memorial surrounding the Pozieres British Cemetery
Photo : Chris Malton (<chris.malton@homecall.co.uk>)

The POZIERES MEMORIAL relates to the period of crisis in March and April 1918 when the Allied Fifth Army was driven back by overwhelming numbers across the former Somme battlefields, and the months that followed before the Advance to Victory, which began on 8 August 1918. The Memorial commemorates over 14,000 casualties of the United Kingdom and 300 of the South African Forces who have no known grave and who died on the Somme from 21 March to 7 August 1918.

The memorial encloses POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY, Plot II of which contains original burials of 1916, 1917 and 1918, carried out by fighting units and field ambulances. The remaining plots were made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields immediately surrounding the cemetery, the majority of them of soldiers who died in the Autumn of 1916 during the latter stages of the Battle of the Somme, but a few represent the fighting in August 1918.

There are 14,699 names on the memorial, 170 of which are for men of the Yorkshire Regiment.

The names of the men of the Yorkshire Regiment found on the Pozieres Memorial are listed below. For further details on each name, select the initial letter above the list of surnames to be taken to another page which contains data on men whose surname starts with that letter.
Soldiers who originally served in the Yorkshire Regiment, but were serving in another regiment when they lost their lives, are shown in parenthesis, below. e.g. Private Addison, B. The panels on which they are commemorated will be shown on the details (below) for that soldier's name.

Further photos of the Pozieres Memorial, including the Yotkshire Regiment commemorative panels, are shown below. These photos were taken by Chris Malton (<chris.malton@homecall.co.uk>) to whom we are very grateful.

	Private Abdale, C Private Abraham, J Private Addison, B Private Allaway, A L/Cpl Allen, A L/Cpl Allinson, J Private Allison, W W Corporal Allsopp, P Private Anderson, H Private Bailey, J C Captain Bainbridge, J S Private Baker, D Private Bannister, E Private Bantham, T W Captain Bass, H (MC) 2nd Lieut Battye, J Private Bayles, A Private Beaver, J W Private Bell, H Private Berriman, W G Private Bowland, W H Private Brack, J R Private Braint, E H J Private Brewer, F Private Brice, V A Private Brigham, F G Private Brook, G H Private Brooke, H A Serjeant Brooks, C Major Brown, H Private Brown, J S Private Brown, R Private Brown, S F Private Brown, T E Private Bryan, D Private Buckle, R H Private Bulman, M B Private Burnett, G E Private Cantellow, R R Serjeant Cape, H Private Carr, G W L/Cpl Cartwright, B Private Caygill, H Private Chalk, H Private Charnock, H Private Clark, H Private Cleugh, J H Private Cousins, A Private Creasor, H Private Cruden, D Private Cudd, F G Private Dean, P Private Desborough, A Private Dickenson, G Private Dinsdale, F Private Dixon, J Lieutenant Dobinson, S R Private Doncaster, E S Private Dove, C Private Doyle, J J Private Drasdo, H E Private Drummond, A Private Duffy, J Private Edmondson, H Private Eggett, J F Private Ellis, L A Private Ellis, S Private Emmitt, A P Lieutenant Evans, H E (MC) Private Everson, A R Private Fawcett, E Corporal Fish, T Private Forcer, P Private Freeman, C E Private Garnett, T E Private Gibson, F Serjeant Gibson, H Private Gill, H L/Cpl Glenton J W (MM) Corporal Gomersall, F Private Greaves, W H Private Grieves, C L/Cpl Gull, J H			L/Cpl Hale, G Private Hall, E Private Hall, J L/Cpl Hall, J T Private Hall, T J Private Hall, W J Corporal Hardy, T Serjeant Harrison J H Private Harrison, J Private Hayes, R G Private Heslop, R Private Hodgson, F Private Holmes, L Private Hook, S H Private Horsfall, G Private Hotchkiss, A E 2nd Lieut Howarth, N Private Hunt, A N Lieutenant Hurworth, C R Private Hutchings, P Rifleman Hutchinson, H 2nd Lieut Hyslop, T A Private Jackson, C H Private Jemmeson, F Private Johnson,N L/Cpl Johnson, W Serjeant Jones, H (MM) Private King, W G (MM) Private Kirk, J Private Lakin, A G Serjeant Lancaster, W Serjeant Latimer, F Private Layburn, R H Private Leese, L Private Le Pine, W H Private Lewis, E Private Lewis, W H Private Lightbown, J Private Lightfoot, N Private Lockwood, A L/Cpl MacDonald, P Serjeant Manson, F B Private Mapes, J W Private Marley, F Private Marshall, W Private Maskill, H Private Mason, A Private McCarthy, C Private McEvoy L Private McNulty, C J Private Mizon, W Private Morgan, J W Private Moss, F G Private Myers, H P Private Nelson, W Private Newbold, E Private Nutt, J A Private O'Brien, H L/Cpl O'Hara C Private O'Neil, M Private Oxley, J			Private Page, G Serjeant Panton, J W Private Parker, M Corporal Parry, B L/Cpl Pearson, A E Private Pescod, J W Private Phillips, C F Private Place, W Private Pratt, J W Private Preston, W C W Private Prior, J Private Renton, M L Private Richards, G Private Richardson, J W Private Richardson, R C L/Cpl Ripley, L C Private Robinson, H E Private Robinson, O Lieut Col Robson, F W (DSO) L/Sgt Roper, G Private Rowland, J C L/Cpl Rowlands, W Corporal Ruffles, A E L/Cpl Salmon, H Private Scarth, F Private Scott, R Private Selby, G Private Smith, E Private Smith, H Private Smith, G Private Smith, J G Private Smith, J H Private Smith, S Private Spencer, G Private Spriggs, T Captain Spurway, D Private Stevens, A Captain Stiff, C N C Private Storr, H Private Sugden, W Private Sweetmore, M Private Swinburne, H Private Taylor, J Private Thompson, H Private Thursfield, T Private Towse, A E Private Turton, G Private Vitel, P M Serjeant Vokes, J Private Wadkin, H L/Cpl Wakefield C/Serjeant Walker, F C Serjeant Walker G E (MM) Private Walker, J H Private Ward, J Private Watson, A J Private Watson, T Private Watson, W P Private Wheatley, J Private Wilkinson, C Corporal Wilkinson G S Private Willey, F Serjeant Williamson, R Corporal Willoughby, W Private Wilson, E Private Windress, E Serjeant Wood, H Private Wood, T R Private Wrightson, G A

The entrance gateway to the Pozieres Memorial and Pozieres British Cemetery, inscribed
"IN MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE FIFTH
AND FOURTH ARMIES WHO FOUGHT ON THE SOMME BATTLEFIELD
21st MARCH - 7th AUGUST 1918 AND OF THEIR DEAD
WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVES"
Photo : Chris Malton (<chris.malton@homecall.co.uk>)

The panel with the names of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment on the Pozieres Memorial.
Photo : Chris Malton (<chris.malton@homecall.co.uk>)

Panel 1 with the names of Other Ranks of the Yorkshire Regiment on the Pozieres Memorial.
Photo : Chris Malton (<chris.malton@homecall.co.uk>)

Panel 2 with the names of Other Ranks of the Yorkshire Regiment on the Pozieres Memorial.
Photo : Chris Malton (<chris.malton@homecall.co.uk>)

Panel 3 with the names of Other Ranks of the Yorkshire Regiment on the Pozieres Memorial.
Photo : Chris Malton (<chris.malton@homecall.co.uk>)

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