The Regiment raised 23 Battalions, was awarded 63 Battle Honours and 5 Victoria Crosses, losing 7,870 men during the course of the First World War.
1/4th 1/6th & 1/7th Battalion Territorial Force
04.08.1914 The 1/4th stationed at Halifax, the 1/6th stationed at Skipton-in-Craven and the 1/7th stationed at Milnsbridge all as part of the 2nd West Riding Brigade of the West Riding Division and then moved to Hull and Grimsby as part of coastal defences.
05.11.1914 Moved to Doncaster.
14.04.1915 Mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne.
12.05.1915 The formation became the 147th Brigade of the 49th Division which engaged in various actions on the Western front including;
1915
The Battle of Aubers Ridge, The defence against the first Phosgene attack.
1916
The Battle of Albert, The Battle of Bazentin Ridge, The Battle of Pozieres Ridge, The Battle of Flers-Courcelette.
1917
Operations on the Flanders Coast (Hush), The Battle of Poelcapelle.
1918
The Battle of Estaires, The Battle of Messines, The Battle of Bailleul, The First Battle of Kemmel Ridge, The Second Battle of Kemmel Ridge, The Battle of the Scherpenberg, The pursuit to the Selle, The Battle of the Selle, The Battle of Valenciennes.
11.11.1918 Ended the war at Auby north of Douai, France.
Regiment: Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment 1/6th Battalion
10 POTTER HILL, BEVERLEY, EAST RIDING, YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
27/04/1918
Aged
37
Thanks to Peter Bonner, WW1 Lives Project, Beverley, No: 540, for the following: Sergeant Robert Durkin, aged 37, was killed in action on April 27th 1918, towards the end of the Battle of the Lys. His body was never recovered and he is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial at Zonnebecke in Belgium. The German attack on allied posit […]
Second Lieutenant
27 Malm Street, Hull
Died on
13/04/1918
Reported missing by Mrs Harrison, 27 Malm Street, Hull. His mother, lived at 55 Chesterton Road, Cambridge. Hull Daily Mail, 14/01/1919. *
1 BARTON TERRACE, MANCHESTER STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
26/04/1918
Aged
19
BORN HULL 1899. SON OF WILLIAM HENRY INGRAM & FLORENCE MARY INGRAM, OF 1 BARTON TERRACE, MANCHESTER STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). EMPLOYED BY THE HULL CORPORATION TRAMWAYS, AS AN ENGINEER. ENLISTED IN HULLIN MARCH 1917. SERVED WITH THE 1/6TH WEST RIDING REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 26/04/1918, AGED 19. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT T […]
The Alley, Ottringham, East Yorkshire, UK
Died on
11/04/1918
Born Hull 1896. Sone of George Michael and Metcalf Annie Elizabeth Wrigglesworth (1863-1952), of The Alley, Ottringham, East Yorkshire. He resided at at Weeton, Patrington and worked as a Farm Servant. He enlisted at Hull. Formerly 3977, East Yorkshire Regiment. Posted to France, on 18/11/1915. Transferred to the 6th Duke of Wellington' […]
BORN HULL 1899. SON OF GEORGE STEWART (Snr) & MARY STEWART, OF 34 MALM STREET & 140 WESTBOURNE AVENUE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SERVED AS SECOND LIEUTENANT, IN THE 1/6TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION ON 10/04/1918, AGED 19. HE IS BURIED AT TROIS ARBRES CEMETERY, STEENWERCK, NORD, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "AT […]
BORN HULL 1899. ELDEST CHILD OF FRANK & ALICE WOODALL, OF 24 UPPER UNION STREET, HULL AND 9 WILLIAM STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS FATHER WAS A COMMISSION AGENT. HE WAS BROTHER TO JOHN SEYMOUR WOODALL, AND THREE SISTERS, ANNIE, BERTHA, AND DORIS, WHO ALL LIVED AT 9 WILLIAM STREET, HULL. EMPLOYED AS A LABOURER. THIS WAS HIS A […]
