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Those known to have served with 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Corker Victor. Pte.
- Crofts Thomas. Pte. (d.20th January 1944)
- Ellis Frederick J.. Pte.
- Lowery John Alfred. Pte. (d.21st January 1944)
- McCarthy John Joseph. Capt.
- Moore Albert. Pte. (d.30th April 1940)
- Ogden Clifford. Pte.
- Ryan Thomas. Pte.
- Shipman George. Pte. (d.16th Jul 1943)
- Siddons Alfred. Cpl.
- Turner Frederick Walter. Pte (d.23rd May 1942)
- Wright Kenneth.
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Pte. Victor Corker 1st Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Victor Corker was serving in Italy and reported missing on 18th February 1944. He was held in the Mantova Dulag 339. On several occasions he was allowed to visit the Mantova Ospidale Civile where he talked with the Allied wounded under treatment. Letters from Italian Red Cross Nurses suggest that he was a Presbyterian Chaplain, but this has not been proven.
Although Dulag 339 was a transit camp, it is believed that Victor Corker may have remained at this camp, as there is no record of his being held in Germany. Casualty List 2026 reports him as now 'Not Prisoner of War'.
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Pte. Thomas Ryan 1st Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Thomas Ryan served with the 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment in WW2. He was captured in Norway and arrived at Stalag XXA on 28th of May 1940 until 22nd of September 1940. He transferred to Bau-und-Arbeits Battalion 40 on 26th of January 1942 and later was transferred to Bau-Und-Arbeits Battalion 20 on 10th of March 1943. Thomas was again moved on to Stalag 344 on 20th of November 1944.
Tommy was shot while in Norway and still had the bullet in him when he arrived back home after weeks of being marched around by the Germans in bitterly cold weather. The imprisonment affected his mental health for many years. He had a loving family awaiting his return.
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Pte. Thomas Crofts 1st Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment (d.20th January 1944) Whilst researching my grandfathers history I discovered I had a great uncle called Tom Crofts, who was killed in action on 20th of January 1944 and is buried at Minturno War Cemetery in Italy.
My grandfather, Private George Tolmie, 1/5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment, was also killed in action at the Second Battle of Kemmel Ridge on the 25th July 1918. After the end of WW1 Georges widow, Elsie, married again to a James Crofts from Sheffield. James was Tom's brother. They went on to have three children, my mother Marion and two sons, Jim and Reg, hence the family connection.
Jim was hit in the back by a piece of shrapnel at Dunkirk, was rescued and spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. He was serving in The Black Watch.
Reg served in the Recce Regiment landed on D Day +1 and went right through to Berlin without a scratch.
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Pte. Albert Moore 1st Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment (d.30th April 1940) Albert Moore was the Son of Walter and Annie Moore of Bradford, Yorkshire.
He was 23 when he died and is buried in the Dovre Churchyard in Norway
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Capt. John Joseph McCarthy 1st Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment My father John McCarthy was a career soldier, joining in 1926 as a Private and, after 22.5 years' service, left the Army as a Captain. His service covered his
sporting achievements in the pre-2nd. World War years at Olympia in
London, through to shipping over to France with the B.E.F. before being
pulled out to go over with the Y&L's with Sickleforce into the Norwegian
campaign in 1940.
Having been left behind in Norway during the evacuation of Allied
troops, he made his way on foot to Sweden along with other soldiers he
met en route to be interned. He was then repatriated by the Red Cross in
England in July, 1940.
Back home he was put forward for his commission and we believe from
documents we have that he was engaged during the rest of the war in
training the fledgling RAF Regiment in defence of Britain's airfields.
After the war he was stationed in Egypt, seconded to the Green Howards
as Company Commander in Almaza, Middle East Forces, before leaving the
Army via a transit camp in Cyprus on 31st. August, 1946.
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Pte. Clifford Ogden 1st Btn. York & Lancaster Regiment On 28 January 1944, during World War II, the Orvieto North railway bridge at Allerona, Italy, was the site of the inadvertent bombing by the American 320th Bombardment Group of a train filled with Allied prisoners. Most of the POWs had come from Camp P.G. 54, Fara in Sabina, 35 kilometres to the north of Rome, and had been evacuated in anticipation of the Allied advance. One of the men on the train, Richard Morris of the U.S. Army, wrote that the train was halted on the bridge over the river when the Allied bombs started to fall, and that the German guards fled the train, leaving the prisoners locked inside. Many escaped, Morris included, through holes in the boxcars caused by the bombing, and jumped into the river below. Historian Iris Origo wrote that 450 were killed when the cars ultimately tumbled into the river.
Private Ogden was Captured at Garigliano. He survived the wreck with wounds to his left ear and left hand. He was then sent to Stalag 344 Lamsdorf.
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Pte. Frederick J. Ellis 1st Btn. York & Lancaster Regiment Frederick Ellis was captured at Garigliano. He survived the train wreck on the the Orvieto North railway bridge at Allerona, Italy, on the 28th of January 1944 with bruising and multiple abrasions and was then sent to Stalag 344 Lamsdorf.
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Cpl. Alfred Siddons 1st Btn. York and Lancaster Regt My late brother, Alfred Siddons joined up with the Loyals in 1941 later transferring to the York and Lancs. He served as a driver/mechanic in Egypt, through the Middle East, Italy and Germany. He was wounded and, I believe, taken to a Field Hospital which was shelled and only he and, I think four, others survived. He received several shrapnel wounds in the attack. I don't know in which part of the world this happened. Because of his wounds he was put aboard a hospital ship bound for the U S, but because the Americans suffered very heavy casualties he was taken off again. The last bit of shrapnel was removed in the 1990's.
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Kenneth "Larry" Wright 1st Batalion York & Lancaster Regiment Kenneth Wright was my Grandad, sadly I never new him as he died when my mum was only 13 and I was not born until she was 24. I know little about him, and although I never knew him I feel proud of him. He was born in 1926 and was called up in April 1944, and he made Sargent in 1947. He was in the York and Lancaster Regiment. He was shot in the leg in Germany. That is all I know of him. I have many photos of him with others from the same regiment and I would like to find out more if possible, so if anyone knew him please get in touch. Thank you.
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