Haldenby, George Herbert

…14/06/1916. TRANSFERRED TO THE 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WOUNDED ON 14/07/1916 AND 28/07/1916. RETURNED TO UNIT, ON 13/09/1916. KILLED IN ACTION, AT SERRE, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 20. HE IS COMMEMORATED…

Wright, Harry

and heavy howitzer shells. Eye-witnesses described the tired and hungry battalion behaving ‘as if they were doing an attack practice in peace’. At 950 yards (870 m) and again at…

Reeder, Edward

and the support trenches, where they joined 1/23rd Londons and were shelled all night. At 16.30 on 27 September the 8th EYR went into bivouacs at Sailly-Labourse when a roll-call…

Newlove, Alfred Lawrence

…1/4TH EYR TERRITORIALS, ON 30/01/1912. MOBILIZED FOR SERVICE ON 05/08/1914. SERVED IN EGYPT AND POSTED TO FRANCE ON 17/04/1915. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, TWO WEEKS LATER, ON

Sugden, Thomas Edward

BORN SYRACUSE, NEBRASKA, USA, 20/02/1885. SON OF THOMAS SUGDEN (1849-1922) AND ALICE AGNES JOHNSON (1852-1894). SON OF A SEA CAPTAIN. HIS PARENTS MOVED TO AMERICA, IN THE 1880’S, AND RETURNED…

Burley, Arthur George

Coming upon a road the battalion could advance no further against the hostile fire, and took cover. Lieutenant-Colonel Shaw had been killed by a rifle bullet during the advance, and