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In York, where Tower Street meets Bishopgate Street, and on a roundabout.

Six of the inscribed names have a * following them; these will be looked at later in the thread.

FACE 1


FIRST BATTALION - KILLED IN ACTION.

2ND LT. A. G. NEAVE

CR SGT P. HUGHES
......."...... F. ROBERTS
SERGT.. B. RICHARDSON
......."...... R. TATE
L-SGT... D. JAMIESON
CORPL. T. DUFFY
......."...... J. FRANKLAND
......."...... J. KEARNS
L-CPL... W. DULLINGHAM
BANDSMAN W. DAVIS *
PRIVATE W. ALLEN
......."....... G. BIRKS
......."....... J. BROWN
......."....... F. CARLEY
......."....... C. CHAPLIN
......."....... J. CLARKE
......."....... C. COLDWELL
......."....... J. CRAM
......."....... W. DIPLOCK
......."....... B. DUFFY
......."....... T. DUNN
......."....... S. GREETHAM
......."....... A. GRICE
......."....... P. HARDY
......."....... G. HARRISON
......."....... J. HARWOOD
......."....... D. HORTON
......."....... E. HORTON
......."....... G. HUMPHRIES

PRIVATE H. JOHNSON
......."....... F. JONES
......."....... W. MULLIGAN
......."....... R. RAW
......."....... A. ROBINSON
......."....... W. RODGERS
......."....... H. ROYSTON
......."....... W. RUSHWORTH
......."....... G. SCRUTON
......."....... A. SMITH
......."....... C. SMITH
......."....... D. SMITH
......."....... J. SWALES
......."....... T. TRINDER *
......."....... R. TINKLER
......."....... T. TURVEY
......."....... W. VARLOW
......."....... E. WARD
......."....... W. WARD
......."....... J. WATSON
......."....... J. WEBB
......."....... J. WILKINSON

DIED OF WOUNDS
SERGT... A. ATKINSON V.C.
DRUMR. A. COOMBES
PRIVATE G. BENSON
......."....... J. BOLTON
......."....... A. BRUCE
......."....... J. DIXON



FACE 2


FIRST BATTALION - DIED OF DISEASE

BAND SGT W. HALL
CORPL. J. BAILEY
......."...... J. BUXTON
......."...... D. SMITHIES
......."...... A. TRIBE

L-CPL... J. McHALE
......."...... W. STEAD

PRIVATE G. APPLETON
......."....... W. BAINES
......."....... A. BENSON
......."....... C. BIRMINGHAM
......."....... C. BRYANT
......."....... J. CAMERON
......."....... G. CARLILE *
......."....... J. CARPENTER
......."....... P. CARROLL
......."....... H. CAVANAH
CORPL.. G. COLLINGS
PRIVATE J. CONROY
......."....... A. DAWSON
......."....... G. DIBBLE
......."....... H. FITTON
......."....... J. GAINS
......."....... W. GIBBONS
......."....... R. GOODWILL
......."....... A. GOSLING
......."....... H. HOBSON
......."....... F. HORTON
......."....... R. JOHNSON
......."....... T. KENNY
......."....... R. LEEMING
......."....... G. LOFTHOUSE

PRIVATE H. LOWE
L-CPL... E. McCARDLE
PRIVATE H. MARROW
......."....... C. MATHEWS
......."....... G. NEWTON
......."....... J. NIXON
......."....... J. PATTISON
......."....... J. PEASE
......."....... J. PINNOCK
......."....... R. PORTBURY
......."....... J. PULLAN
......."....... J. PURVIS
......."....... S. PYE
......."....... A. ROLFE
......."....... W. ROSE
......."....... F. ROUSE
......."....... W. SIMMONS *
......."....... J. SMITH
......."....... J. SOLLARS
L-CPL... R. STANTON
PRIVATE J. STEPHENSON
......."....... G. SULLIVAN
......."....... W. SYKES
......."....... W. TIGHE
......."....... C. TRICKETT
......."....... C. TURTON
......."....... R. WALKER
......."....... H. WEBB
......."....... G. WEBSTER
......."....... R. WHITE
......."....... A. WILKINSON
......."....... G. WILSON
......."....... A. WOOLLETT
......."....... C. WARNE


FACE 3


THIRD BATTALION

KILLED IN ACTION

PRIVATE T. LANGAN
......."....... J. McHALE
......."....... H. NEWTON
......."....... O. O'SHAUGHNESSY
......."....... G. SOWERBY

DIED OF WOUNDS

PRIVATE B. BAGGALEYY *
......."....... T. BURTON
......."....... T. CAFFERTY

DIED OF DISEASE

LIEUT.... G. L. DORMAN
CR SGT. H. BATTYE
......."...... G. STEPHENSON
SERGT.. W. COOPER
......."....... R. EGLINGTON
......."....... H. LEE
DRMR.... H. HAINES
CORPL.. W. KAYE
L-CPL.... W. CHAPLIN

PRIVATE R. ADAMSON
......."....... A. ALLEN
......."....... H. ARNOLD
......."....... H. ASHLEY
......."....... E. BEHANEL

DIED OF DISEASE

PRIVATE F. BLAZARD
......."....... T. BOWMAN
......."....... J. BUTTERWORTH
......."....... M. CAVANAGH
......."....... C. CURRIE
......."....... G. DUNFORD
......."....... W. DUNFORD
......."....... M. DUNN
......."....... J. ELLIOTT
......."....... G. FENTON
......."....... T. HAGAN
......."....... T. HOLMES
......."....... H. HUNT
......."....... H. KETTLEWELL
......."....... J. LARKIN
......."....... A. McDUFF
......."....... D. MULLANEY
......."....... J. MURRAY
......."....... C. NEWMAN
......."....... S. OGDEN
......."....... E. PERKINS
......."....... W. PRESTON
......."....... D. PRICE
......."....... H. ROBINSON
......."....... G. SMITH
......."....... P. SULLIVAN
......."....... G. TOWNES
......."....... T. WATKINSON
......."....... J. WARD
......."....... A. WILSON
......."....... F. WOOD


FACE 4

FOURTH BATTALION ......-.......1ST AND 2ND V. BATTALION

KILLED IN ACTION ...................DIED OF DISEASE

PRIVATE B. NASH............................CORPL A. STEPHENSON
............".............................................PRIVATE J. FROST
DIED OF DISEASE ...........................".......J. MILNER
..................................................................".......E. OUTHWAITE
SERGT... J. STEVENS.............................".......J. SEWELL *
PRIVATE J. ACKROYD............................".......J. STUBBS
......."........A. DRYDALE
......."....... J. FLAHERTY....................KILLED IN ACTION
......."....... P. HURRELL
......."....... M. MOHAN.......................CAPTAIN C.J.H.H. NOBLE
............................................................MANCHESTER REGT
FIRST BATTALION ....................(LATE YORKSHIRE REGT)

DIED OF DISEASE

CORPL.. J. NAGGINTON
PRIVATE H. BRUMMAGE
......."....... A. GILES
......."....... P. FOLEY

....To the memory of 193 gallant officers and men of the Alexandra Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire) Regiment, who fell in the South African war, their comrades have erected a handsome monument in York, and yesterday it was unveiled by Major-General Sir Leslie Rundle, the officer commanding the troops of the North Eastern District. York is rich in military memorials, and this latest addition to the number is a tribute to a regiment which deserves abundant honour at the hands of the county and the nation. For over 200 years the regiment - the old 19th, which for upwards of a century and a half has been known as the "Green Howards" - has been fighting its country's battles. On its colours are inscribed four honours only - Malplaquet, Alma, Inkerman, and Sevastopol - but it has seen hard service in every part of the world. ....It has a glorious history. Originating in certain companies of musketeers and pikemen raised during the Revolution of 1688, it was incorporated as a regiment under the command of Colonel Francis Luttrell in the following year. It was present at the battle of Steinkirk, and was in the covering army at the siege of Namur. It was afterwards attached to the Duke of Marlborough's forces in time to share in the famous victory of Malplaquet in 1709, and was also in Marlborough's later campaigns. From 1738 to 1748 it was commanded by the Hon. Charles Howard, second son of the third Earl of Carlisle. Having green facings, it became known as the "Green Howards, to distinguish it from the old regiment of Buffs, which was known as the Howards, after the colonel, George Howard. Through the Carlisle family the regimental connection with Yorkshire probably commenced, though the regiment did not receive its county title until 1782. It went through the Flanders campaign, and the campaign of 1794, under the Duke of York, sharing in the terrible winter retreat through Holland and Westphalia to Brunn. It was afterwards in India and Ceylon for 23 years, returning home in 1820. The regiment also served in the Crimea with great distinction, in India during the latter part of the Mutiny, and was employed on the line of communications during the Nile campaign of 1884. ....The regiment's South African record is in keeping with its traditions. Line, militia, and volunteers gave of their best service to the country, and members of all branches lie buried in South African soil. The 1st Battalion went practically through the war, going out in November, 1899, and not getting back until October, 1902, when it took up quarters at Sheffield barracks, where it is still stationed. The 3rd (militia) Battalion was also at the front during a considerable part of the campaign, and the 4th for about six months. The 1st Volunteer Battalion (Northallerton) and the 2nd (Scarborough) both sent active service contingents. The regiment did a tremendous amount of trekking, and was in much heavy fighting. The members who were with it from the beginning are entitled to wear six clasps on their medals - a number which no regiment, as a body, exceeds. The clasps are for Diamond Hill, Belfast, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Paardeberg, and Kimberley, and the names of these places are inscribed on the monument. The No. 1 Volunteer Service Company was the only volunteer company in the whole army to take part in the great march past before Lord Roberts in the square at Pretoria. ....The monument which the regiment has erected is an obelisk of polished Peterhead granite, standing on five bases of the same material. It occupies a commanding site at the Tower Street approach to Skeldergate Bridge, almost under the walls of the old castle. It fronts the Assize Courts, and is in a direct line to and from the barracks. The bases are surmounted by a plinth 5ft. high, and above this is an 18ft. shaft, the full height of the memorial being 27ft. 9in. All four sides of the plinth are occupied by names of those who fell in South Africa. Of the 1st Battalion, 32 officers and men were killed in action, six died of wounds, and 70 non-commissioned officers and men succumbed to disease. One of those who died of wounds was Sergt. A. Atkinson, who performed heroic service at Paardeberg, and in whose behalf the posthumous honours of the Victoria Cross were granted. The losses of the 3rd Battalion were five killed in action, three died of wounds, and 45 of disease; the 4th Battalion had one killed, and six died of disease; Above the names appear, on one side of the plinth, an inscription stating in whose honour the monument is erected, and on the other, the names of the six places where the regiment earned its clasps. On the face of the shaft is a bronze representation of the regimental arms - the Princess of Wales's cipher, with cross and coronet. ....The ceremony of unveiling, though brief, was impressive, and effective as a military display. The monument occupies the centre of an open space, and three sides of this were lined with troops. The front was filled by 400 members of the 1st Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment, representing both the companies in barracks at Sheffield and those on Strensall Common. The men looked very smart in their scarlet tunics, with green collars and cuffs, as they stood at attention with fixed bayonets, the colours waving in front of the line. Nearly every man among them wore one or more medals. Lieut.-Colonel Egerton was in command, and the other officers present were Major Handcock, Major Orr, Major Eason, Major King, Captain Somervell, Captain Hartley, Captain Lea, Captain Stansfield, Lieutenant and Adjutant Gunthorpe, Lieut. Walker, Lieut. Bunbury, and Lieut. Leatham. On one side was a detachment of the 4th Battalion from Strensall, with representatives of the 2nd V.B. from Scarborough, and the other troops on parade were drawn from the West Yorks, the West Ridings, and the 18th Hussars. The band of the Yorkshire Regiment, from Sheffield, and about 150 children from the garrison school at York, were also present.
....The Lord Mayor of York (Alderman R. H. Vernon Wragge), the Sheriff (Mr. W. Bentley), and the members of the Corporation, arrived in procession shortly before the ceremony, and Mr. J. G. Butcher, M.P., and the Dean of York (Dr. Purey-Cust) were also among the spectators. The officers of the Green Howards had invited many representatives of Yorkshire regiments and other friends, and there was a large gathering of the people of York. From Sheffield Barracks came Lieut.-Colonel E. H. Armitage, Major Cartwright, Captain Fawcus (Royal Artillery), and Major Haines, R.A.M.C. The Yorkshire Hussars were represented by Lieut.-Colonel Beckett, Major Lord Deramore, and Lieut. Herbert. Among others who accepted invitations were Colonel Bowles, C.B. (director of Army Schools, formerly in command of the 1st Yorkshires), and other old officers of the regiment; Colonel A. J. A. Wright, C.B., and officers of the 15th Regimental District; Colonel Harris, C.B., and officers of the 33rd Regimental District; Major Ellis and officers of the 51st and 65th Regimental Districts; Colonel Rivett-Carnac and officers of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment; Colonel Lord Wenlock an officers of the East Riding Imperial Yeomanry; Lieut.-Colonel Marling, V.C., and officers of the 18th Hussars; Lieut.-Colonel and Lady Florence Eden, Colonel Hughes (Hallamshire Rifles), Mrs. and the Misses Hughes, Captain and Quartermaster Hay (Hallamshire Rifles), Mrs. and Miss Hay, Colonel E. S. Tozer and officers of the Sheffield Engineer Volunteers; Lieut.-Colonel W. A. White and officers of the 1st V.B. West Yorkshire Regiment; Colonel Muller and officers of the 2nd V.B. West Yorkshires.
....Sir Leslie Rundle was accompanied by Lieutenant the Hon. G. H. Douglas-Pennant, his aide de camp, Colonel J. E. Lindley, A.A.G. of the North Eastern District, Major Symonds, D.A.A.G., and Major R. Wanless-O'Gowan, D.A.A.G. for musketry. Captain K. C. Buist, of the Highland Light Infantry, was also on parade. The general officer was received with a salute, and the hymn "O God our help in ages past" was sung. Unfortunately, rain began to fall at this time, and continued, in increasing heaviness, during the whole of the proceedings. At the request of Colonel Egerton, Sir Leslie Rundle performed the ceremony of unveiling the memorial, after which the Royal salute was given, and the National Anthem played.
....Colonel Egerton then, in a few words, handed over into the care of the Lord Mayor the monument which had just been unveiled, thanking his Lordship and the Corporation for the magnificent site they had provided. The Lord Mayor briefly replied. ....Colonel Egerton, addressing Sir Leslie Rundle, expressed the sincere thanks of all ranks of the battalions under his command, for his presence on that occasion and for the duty he had so kindly undertaken. Those present who had seen war knew what pain and grief, what gallantry and self-sacrifice, the names upon the monument stood for. To many of them the ceremony must necessarily be a sorrowful one. Their efforts to do honour to the memory of their fallen comrades had been very greatly aided by Sir Leslie Rundle's sympathetic assistance in those proceedings.
....Sir Leslie Rundle, in reply, said he esteemed it a very great honour to be asked to unveil the memorial. It needed no words of his to remind Yorkshiremen of the part that the Yorkshire Regiment had played in the history of England since 1688, when it first fought in Flanders, and from that time, continuously, down to the present day. The memorial would be a record to future generations of the part the regiment played in the time of national need. One whose name was inscribed thereon would, he thought, be specially remembered amongst the many brave men who had fallen in South Africa, and his example would be an incentive to future generations of Yorkshiremen. He alluded to Sergeant Atkinson, who, at the battle of Paardeberg, went out of the trenches seven times to get water for his wounded comrades, and was killed at the seventh attempt. For this act he received after his death the Victoria Cross. He felt sure as long as we had Englishmen who could face death in the cause of suffering comrades as Sergeant Atkinson did, and as long as their children kept his and similar acts in mind, and tried to follow in such footsteps, we need not fear for the future of the British Empire.
Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Thursday 26th May 1904

Bandsman W. Davis - The surname looks to have first been inscribed as DAVIES.


Private T. Trinder's name was first inscribed as ?


Private G. Carlile - the name was first inscribed as CARLISLE.


Private W. Simmons - his surname was first inscribed as SIMMONDS.


Private B. Baggaley - the original inscription might have been BAGGALEEY.


Private J. Sewell - first inscribed as SAVILLE. Also, the initial of his first name may have first been inscribed as A.