by Chris Lloyd | 1916 Centenary, Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Northallerton, Richmond, Thirsk, War Stories
A Lottery-funded project has documented the story of the community hospitals of the First World War. Ashley Barnard reports. THE role of the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses throughout the First World War was vital, as swathes of injured men came back from the front...
by Chris Lloyd | In Your Town, Latest, Northallerton
THE fascinating secret stories of the men who appealed against having to serve in the trenches during the First World War are slowly being revealed. Compulsory military service – or conscription – came into effect 100 years ago with the Military Service Act of 1916....
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Middlesbrough, Northallerton, Redcar, Ripon
ANNE WALL is writing a book about the First World War VAD hospitals of the North Riding of Yorkshire. She has recently uncovered this splendid picture of VAD nurses at Masham, but still would like more information. The Voluntary Aid Detachment, or VAD, was formed in...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Latest, Northallerton
STUDENTS from North Yorkshire will be amongst a party of pupils travelling to Belgium to collect soil from the battlefields of Flanders. Pupils from Northallerton College will joining other students from across the UK in taking part in a special Last Post Ceremony...
