by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Ripon
AN outstanding First World War soldier is to be remembered at a special service at Ripon Cathedral on Thursday. The service will honour Lt-Col Neville Bowes Elliott-Cooper, exactly 100 years after his actions won him the Victoria Cross (VC). He had already received...
by Chris Lloyd | 1916 Centenary, Centenary, Harrogate, In Your Town, Latest, Ripon, War Stories, York
THE family of a soldier awarded the Victoria Cross for leading a counter-attack, against greatly superior numbers, during a key part of the Battle of the Somme have spoken of their pride after a memorial to honour him was unveiled in his home town. Numerous members of...
by Chris Lloyd | Harrogate, In Your Town, Latest, Ripon
A MEMORIAL honouring the actions of a teacher-turned-soldier who is among an elite group of people to have received both the Victoria and Military Cross will be unveiled at a ceremony attended by several members of his family. The commemorative service to Archie...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Ripon
A SCHOOL has paid a poignant tribute to its former pupils and staff who have their lives in the First World War. Nearly 300 former pupils and teachers from Ripon Grammar School served their country in the Great War but sadly 49 did not come home. In 1922, the former...
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...
