Regiment: 1/4th East Yorkshire Regiment Training Reserves

1/4th Battalion Territorial Force
04.08.1914 Stationed at Hull as part of the York & Durham Brigade of the Northumbrian Division and then moved to South Holderness and then on to Darlington and then Newcastle.
07.04.1915 Mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne where the formation became the 150th Brigade of the 50th Division which engaged in various action on the Western Front including;
During 1915
The Battle of St Julien, The Battle of Frezenburg Ridge, The Battle of Bellewaarde Ridge.
During 1916
The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The Battle of Morval, The Battle of the Transloy Ridges.
During 1917
The First and Second Battles of the Scarpe, The Capture of Wancourt Ridge, The Second Battle of Passchendaele.
During 1918
The Battle of St Quentin, The Actions at the Somme Crossings, The Battle of Rosieres, The Battle of Estaires, The Battle of Hazebrouck, The Battle of the Aisne.
15.07.1918 Reduced to cadre and moved to defend the Lines of Communication in Dieppe.
16.08.1918 Transferred to the 116th Brigade of the 39th Division.
07.11.1918 Demobilised at Cucq.

Last Name
Address
Narrative
, HESSLE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
       
       
Died on
23/11/1917
       
Aged
47
BORN BIRMINGHAM 1870. SON OF WILLIAM AND CAROLINE CLARK, OF BIRMINGHAM. HUSBAND OF ADA E. CLARK, OF TOWER HILL, HESSLE (CWGC ADDRESS). PROMOTED TO CORPORAL. DIED SERVING WITH THE 4TH EYR TRAINING BATTALION, AGED 47. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HESSLE ROLL OF HONOUR, ALL SAINTS PARISH CHURCH. HE IS BURIED AT HESSLE CHURCH CEMETERY. HIS GR […]
SKIRLAUGH, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
       
Died on
15/11/1918
       
Aged
18
BORN BLACKTOFT, YORKS, 1900. SON OF JOSEPH FIELDER (1868-1956) & ANNIE SWIFT (1868-1946), OF BURTON CONSTABLE STATION, ELLERBY, SKIRLAUGH. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HE SERVED IN THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF PNEUMONIA, AT THE HULL V.A.D. HOSPITAL, ON 15/11/1918, AGED 18. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WER […]
91 , CHANTERLANDS AVENUE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
       
Died on
26/08/1918
       
Aged
40
BORN HULL 1880. HE MARRIED IN HULL, IN OCTOBER 1906. HIS WIFE, GERTRUDE EMILY WHITING (1884-1969), AND THEIR DAUGHTER, FREDA, LIVED AT THIS PROBATE ADDRESS & 97 MELROSE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). A FORMER STOCK BROKER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 14/09/1918. HE SERVED AS COMPANY QUARTERMASTER SERGEANT, IN THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE RESERVE REG […]