by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Richmond
A REGIMENTAL museum is using the centenary anniversary of the end of the First World War as the inspiration for a new project. The Green Howards Museum in Richmond is launching a “Ribbon of Remembrance” project with the aim of creating a lasting link...
by Chris Lloyd | In Your Town, Latest, Richmond
BRITISH actor Michael Mears who has had leading roles with the National Theatre and RSC is to bring his play about First World War conscientious objectors to North Yorkshire. This Evil Thing, based on one of the men incarcerated in Richmond Castle, premiered at...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Richmond
HISTORY homework has sparked a story of love and war after a schoolgirl traced her family tree to a heroic soldier. Richmond School and Sixth Form College student Grace Morris, 13, was challenged to find a First World War story in her family and her research revealed...
by Chris Lloyd | In Your Town, Latest, Richmond
A MUSEUM which was instrumental in the quest to name an unknown First World War soldier, has put on display some of the objects which finally helped identify him. Items found with the remains of Private Henry Parker, including a belt buckle, buttons, shoulder badges...
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, Richmond, War Stories
ONE hundred years ago this weekend, 16 men were secretly spirited out of the dungeons of Richmond castle and sent by train to the killing fields of northern France where their own government hoped they would be shot at dawn by their fellow countrymen pour encourager...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Richmond
GRAFFITI which reveals an often-forgotten chapter of the First World War is to be saved from crumbling away to dust. Hundreds of pencil drawings, political slogans, portraits, hymns and poetry were scrawled on the walls of the 19th-century cell block at Richmond...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Richmond
Many of the 16 conscientious objectors who were imprisoned in the 19th-century cell block at Richmond Castle left their mark on the walls in the form of drawings and writings. Their graffiti is regarded as a rare visual display of a fascinating aspect of the castle’s...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Richmond
ONE of the region’s leading military museums, which was created from the triumphs and tragedies of the First World War, has timed its reopening to coincide with Remembrance during the centenary of the conflict. The Green Howards Museum, in Richmond, North Yorkshire,...
by Chris Lloyd | Barnard Castle, Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Richmond
HUTTON MAGNA is a little place on which the First World War had a big impact. One hundred years ago, it and its neighbour, West Layton, comprised 55 houses. Even in those overcrowded days, the population of the two villages cannot have been more than a few hundred....
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Richmond
A SOLDIER from the region has played a part in a unique and historic event commemorating the outbreak of the First World War. Trooper James Casey, 22, from Richmond, travelled to the picturesque town of Bad Ischl in Austria with his regiment, the Queen’s Dragoon...
