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Yorkshire Dragoons (Queens Own ) Regular Battalions: 1/1st Battalion, Yorkshire Dragoons 2/1st Battalion, Yorkshire Dragoons 3/1st Battalion, Yorkshire Dragoons 22nd July 1915 Advance Party 28th July 1915 On the Move 29th July 1915 On the Move 1st Aug 1915 On the Move 3rd Aug 1915 In Billets 4th Aug 1915 On the Move 5th Aug 1915 On the Move 5th Aug 1915 Orders 5th Aug 1915 Training Instruction 5th Aug 1915 Billets 8th Aug 1915 Training 16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme 1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets 11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment 10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens 9th February 1916 Call Ups 1st July 1916 Smoke   2nd July 1916 Reliefs 3rd July 1916 Shelling   4th July 1916 Reliefs 5th July 1916 Orders 6th July 1916 Moves 7th July 1916 Moves 8th July 1916 Moves 9th July 1916 Orders 5th of December 1917 Attack Practised 6th Apr 1918 Reliefs Complete   If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about the Yorkshire Dragoons (Queens Own )? There are:6609 items tagged Yorkshire Dragoons (Queens Own ) available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with Yorkshire Dragoons (Queens Own ) during the Great War 1914-1918. Cranidge Charles. Pte. Dalzell Thomas Frost. 2nd Lt. 18th Coy. Greenwood John . Pte. 4th Btn. Scholes Herbert. L/Cpl. Young A.. Pte. All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please. Add a Name to this List More Yorkshire Dragoons (Queens Own ) records. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. 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We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 264960 2nd Lt. Thomas Frost Dalzell 18th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Thomas Dalzell joined the army in 1914, aged 16, with his older brother Robert, aged 19. They both begin their service in the Yorkshire Dragoons as Privates. Robert moved on to the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers) and became a Lieutenant before the wars' end. At some point between 1915-1917 Thomas became a second lieutenant in the Machine Gun Corps (MGC) Infantry, 18th Company. This company (18th) was formed in February, 1916 and on 1918-03-01 they joined with other companies to form the 6th Machine Gun Battalion at the Western Front. In its short history, the Machine Gun Corps gained an enviable record for heroism as a front line fighting force. It had a less enviable record for its casualty rate. Some 170,500 officers and men served in the MGC with 62,049 becoming casualties, including 12,498 killed, earning it the sombre nickname the Suicide Clu’. On 31st Of March 1918 the Spring Offensive began with the German forces launching Operation Michael at the front line (the location of which is many of the old Somme battlegrounds). War diaries written at the time by army officials organising the trenches give a detailed account of how that day unfolded for Thomas and his comrades. For the 6th Division which Thomas's 18th Company fell into, the companies were renamed for operational ease – A, B, C and D Coys, 6th Battalion MGC. Thomas and his fellow soldiers fell into company B. On the front line near Favreuil, the set up of 6th Division is as follows. First of all, there were 14 guns positioned away from the trenches providing bands of fire across the front of the second line. Positioned 500-800 yards behind these, at intervals, were seven gun batteries, each with four guns. Their job was to put down a barrage in front of no man’s land and to engage the enemy by direct fire if they came across the front line. Roughly 500-700 yards behind these gun batteries, were five pairs of guns in strong points. Again, 800 yards behind these, were 8 more guns, giving a total of 64 guns on the their part of line, distributed over a depth of 2000 yards. Thomas would have been positioned at one of the five strong point guns as these were managed by B company. At 2am on 21st March a message was received that the German forces were going to attack at dawn. At 4.50 a.m. heavy bombardment from German forces began. This lasted until 8 a.m. Gas masks had to be worn at all times. Within the first half hour of this attack, all telephone wires were cut. The enemy attacked at 10 a.m. Unluckily, the battlefield was blanketed in thick mist which covered the advance of German soldiers through no man’s land and caused chaos on the front line. The diary records as much information as possible about each gun position. There is a fair amount of information about the strong point gun positions of B company, Thomas and his team at one of them. A strong point called Company Headquarters was engaged heavily with German forces for a couple of hours. The left gun team was wiped out. A further gun maintained by B company reported 6 casualties. The team at Brigade Headquarters strong point also suffered casualties. For some gun points sadly no information is available as no soldier returned from that position and nothing is known about what happened to that gun. Such is the case for one of the strong points held by B company called Battalion Headquarters. The teams of another strong point, Dunelm Headquarters, lasted until the following day before being wiped out, so we know Thomas was not part of this (unless there were unrecorded casualties). This puts Thomas at either Company, Brigade or Battalion Headquarters' gun points. On that one day of 21st March, 38,500 British soldiers lost their lives, the second worst day in British Military history. Thomas Dalzell, at age 22, was one of them. The officer's diary records for the period 21st/22nd of March 1918, 6th Battalion Gun Corps, the death of 3 officers and 11 soldiers and records 5 officers and 194 soldiers as missing. 60 out of 64 guns were destroyed or lost. Without a known grave, Thomas Frost Dalzell is commemorated at Pozieres Memorial, close to the village of Pozieres which fell to German forces on 24/25th March. Thomas was married to Evelyn (who later remarried), and also left behind his parents Alfred and Emily and siblings Harry, Hilda, Alfred, Jean, Gaskarth and Robert (who survived the Great War). Fran Walsh Add to this record. 247035 Pte. Charles Cranidge Yorkshire Dragoons Charles Cranidge was born in 1891 in Crowle, Lincolnshire. He was living with his parents, 5 brothers and a sister in Masons Arms, perhaps in the High Street, Crowle in 1901. Father Peter was an inn keeper. In 1911 he was apprenticed carpenter to Frederick Lee of Rollestone Nottinghamshire. He joined the Yorkshire Dragoons on 20th of July 1915 and served as a private in France. He survived the war and died in Rollestone in 1957 Add to this record. 212565 L/Cpl. Herbert Scholes York and Lancaster Regiment My grandfather Herbert Scholes served in the British Army, having enlisted from Sheffield,Yorkshire in Oct 1915. The Army form E.501 Attestation was taken at Harrogate on the 28th October 1915 and shows that Herbert was to be in the York & Lancaster Regiment, 3/1st 00 Yorkshire Dragoons. I remember ,as a child , visiting my grandfather and seeing a photograph of him in uniform sitting astride a grey horse. At present I don't have any further information and no stories to tell as my grandfather would never talk about the war and he died when I was only 9years old. I have however , found his name on a Roll of Honour -"Hoyland Nether Township Roll of Honour " along with over 1500 names of those men of Hoyland who served in the Great War. Kathryn Everitt Add to this record. 204736 Pte. John Greenwood 4th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry My father enlisted Leeds on 21st Sept 1916, serving first with 4th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and posted to Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons (I was told they had no horses so were issued with cycles). Chevrons One B; wound stripe one. He served in France was wounded in action, and received an honourable discharge on 20th December 1918. Discharge Certificate army form B2079, No.2 Infantry records Yorks (serial number 2841). Discharge certificate bears serial number 3748YLI, being no longer physically fit for war service. He had served 1 year 299 days with the colours and 157 days in army reserve (does the latter indicate the time in hospital care?) Para 392 (XV1) KR. The name of my parents' house was Neuf Eglise which might signify the area in France where he was wounded. I was never given details of my father's war service when I was younger but now as I near 80 years of age I have studied the Discharge Certificate and scrap of paper attached to it and would like to know the following. I feel perhaps the Regimental War Diaries will give the places to which the Unit was moved. When did the Unit go to France? The Movement of the Unit thereafter and the actions in which they were involved. Would my Father's Unit be involved in action on a certain date in or near Neuf Eglise? Is there a record of exactly where he was wounded and his movements thereafter. I believe he was eventually in a hospital at Burton Agnes on the east coast of Yorkshire. My understanding from Carlisle Military Museum is that Neuf Eglise was a much fought over area in 1914/18. Any information you can give me would be most welcome. Pauline Anderson Add to this record.

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