North Yorkshire History

I've only just caught up (two years late) with reading this excellent book on the  sinking of HMS Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy  on 22 Septe...

On 19 June 1917, the Rev William Patrick Dott was appointed one of the temporary chaplains to the Forces, a post he held for the rest of th...

I came across the story of Mrs Annabel Dott and the Goathland Homes for Officers quite by accident. I was flicking through a volume of ...

The North-Eastern Daily Gazette 12 November 1918 A DAY OF REJOICING  The rejoicings which began in Middlesbrough yesterday morning over ...

This was written for the archives of the Live Bait Squadron Society .   John Duncan Stubbs (always known as Duncan) was born on 24 June...

The vessels HMS Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue have been designated under the  Protection of Military Remains Act  –  which means that, at long l...

I didn't put this on earlier, I was hiding from it because a younger version of me features in it ... It's Klaudie Bartelink's...

Henk van der Linden is the founder of the  the Live Bait Squadron Society  and the author of  The Live Bait Squadron: three mass graves off ...

Here, with very many thanks to Ian Stubbs, who contacted me to offer the use of the photographs on   his flickr stream , are pictures of the...

In old age, Mrs Katharine Isobel Ellis Hill (1905-2005) looked back to the golden times before the First World War broke out ... when she...

I've recently been sent these details on the death of  Captain John Macfarlane Charlton .  They come from Dennis Tyerman, whose father, ...

I'm just making a correction today to the post about  Joseph Beresford Shields 1879-1917 , because I've heard from Carole Mulroney i...

Friday 16 Oct … I wired to the Navy League to order me a wreath from Harrods to be placed on the Nelson Column on Trafalgar Day and I se...

Wednesday 14 Oct  … I received a telegram from Averil [his sister-in-law] that a boy’s body had been found at Karright [?] and she was ...

Martin Eggermont kindly sent me this information on George Hutton Bowes-Wilson.  He was the elder son of Thomas Bowes Wilson (1845-1929) wh...