Craven's Part in the Great War

The battalion remained in its new line all night, on the extreme right of the Brigade. Troops kept coming back from Armentieres and it was impossible to know whether there was a...

Of Immingham, the Battalion has only confused memories of concrete floors as sleeping places, of endless tours of sentry-go, of its first experience of strict army rations, and...

At last towards the end of August the battalion moved out to Lealvillers for a week’s rest. Here Captain N. B. Chaffers, M.C., who had been adjutant since December, 1915, when C...

The “_Rohilla_” was on her way to Dunkirk to bring back the wounded, and at ten minutes to four on the morning of October 30th, 1914, she struck on submerged rocks in the vicini...

LIEUT. LESLIE BROOKS, 2nd Lincolnshire Regiment, the youngest son of Mr. J. B. Brooks, Finstall, Bromsgrove, who married, on November 14th, 1914, Blanche, elder daughter of Mr....

2ND LIEUT. B. G. LODGE, Durham Light Infantry, was killed in action on August 24th, 1917. Deceased, who was 23 years of age, joined the Royal Fusiliers in December, 1914. After...

FOR WALTER MORRISON, ESQ., J.P., OF MALHAM TARN, AND PRESENTED TO EACH MEMBER OF HIS MAJESTY’S FORCES WHO JOINED UP FROM THE SKIPTON PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION, OR TO THEIR NEXT OF...

Of the Medical Section, largely recruited from the Barnoldswick branch of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, it need only be said that it played a prominent part in every action th...

Pte. A. Arundale. Pte. T. Anderton. Pte. G. H. Alton. Sgt. H. Ayrton. Pte. A. Ackroyd. Cpl. H. R. Ackroyd. Pte. G. Abra. Pte. S. Atkinson. Sgt. T. E. Bosworthick. Pte. A. Bell....

June 28.--Francis Ferdinand shot at Sarajevo. July 5.--Kaiser’s War Council at Potsdam. July 23.--Austro-Hungarian Note to Serbia. July 23.--Austria declared war on Serbia. July...

LIEUT. HARRY R. THELWELL, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, died in hospital in France from wounds on July 8th, 1916. When war broke out Lieut. Thelwell joined the Qu...