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The
2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, 1st Battle of Ypres - 1914. The Battalion Roll |
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The 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment arrived in Ypres on 14 October 1914.
A book in the Green Howards Museum records the Roll of all Officers and Men who arrived in Belgium in October 1914.
Below are;-
The Roll of Officers, and
The Roll of all Warrant Officers,
NCOs and Men who disembarked with the Battalion in Belgium in October
1914.
1064 Other Ranks are on this Roll.
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The above Roll has been transcribed, and the Roll has then
been compared with the names of the men who died and are buried in a Commonwealth
War Grave or commemorated on a Commonwealth War Memorial.
Of the 1064 names on the original Roll, 366 are recorded as having died
by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
The complete Roll can be viewed as a PDF file by selecting the link, below;-
When viewing this Roll, there are a few points to bear in mind;-
1 Some of the men listed transferred
to other Battalions or regiments.
Thus, not all will have been in the 2nd Battalion
at the time of death.
2 One man, Captain Marmaduke Thwaites, had been promoted from WO to Officer by he time he was killed.
3 Three of the soldiers were under-age
at the time of death, and one (Drummer Hammond) although he died aged 19
would only have been aged 16 in October 1914.
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