The Regiment raised 35 Battalions and was awarded 57 Battle Honours and 4 Victoria Crosses, losing 12,700 men during the course of the war.
3rd (Reserve) Battalion
04.08.1914 Stationed at Richmond then moved to West Hartlepool where it remained.
BORN REIMS, FRANCE, 17/07/1893. ELDEST SON OF THOMAS BAISTOW (1858-1899) AND MARGARET ROSE HANNA (1867-1916), OF SILVER STREET, HULL . ONE OF TWO BROTHERS. HE CAME TO ENGLAND AT THE AGE OF TWO. LIVED IN BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. EDUCATED AT IVYHOLME SCHOOL, DULWICH, IN CAMBERWELL, LONDON. HIS MOTHER MARRIED THE REV., ALFRED CHARLES STARLING, […]
BORN HULL 1898. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF WILLIAM BELL AND THE LATE EMILY BELL, AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. A BRASS MOULDER, ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 19/02/1918, AGED 20 YEARS AND 3 MONTHS. POSTED TO THE 3RD WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, ON 23/04/1918. DIED OF PNEUMONIA, ON 24/08/1918, AGED 20, AT WHITLEY BAY. BURIED AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY. UNMARRIED. HI […]
BORN HORNSEA 1871. SON OF GEORGE & ELLEN KEITH. MARRIED ELIZABETH GREEN, IN HULL IN 1903. THEY LIVED AT 50 SOUGHGATE, HORNSEA. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 3RD WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED IN NEWCASTLE, ON 30/12/1914, AGED 43. BURIED AT NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE (ST. ANDREW'S AND JESMOND) CEMETERY.
14 CLAREMONT TERRACE, DAY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
25/04/1916
Aged
25
BORN HULL 1891. SON OF CHARLES AND EMILY LACEY, OF 57 NORTH STREET, HULL. AND 14 CLAREMONT TERRACE, DAY STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS). A METAL POLISHER. HE ENLISTED IN WHITBY. SERVED WITH THE 3RD WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED ON 25/04/1916, AGED 25. HE IS BURIED IN FRANCE. HIS DEATH IS RECORDED IN SOLDIERS DIED VOLUMES. HE IS NOT LI […]
BORN HULL. ENLISTED HARROGATE. DIED HOME. BURIED ST ANDREWS & JESMOND CHURCHYARD, NEWCASTLE.
Private Herbert Edwin Wilson (1894-1918) of Beverley Herbert Edwin was born in 1894 in Beverley, the youngest of eight children. Born to wheelwright, William Wilson of 87 Keldgate and his wife Ann Eleanor (nee Pinder). He lived at 89 Newbridge Road, Hull. Herbert enrolled in the East Yorkshire Regiment, 6th Battalion, and went to the Ba […]
