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 | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Thirsk, York
A COURAGEOUS earl who died while standing up to rally his troops in the “unadulterated hell” of the Somme battlefield is to be honoured with a commemoration service. The Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu will join the Feversham family and parishioners at All Saint’s...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Thirsk
A VILLAGE is set to mark the centenary of a group of soldiers being killed following a shell blast in their trench during a notorious First World War battle. Helperby, near Thirsk, North Yorkshire, will stage the commemoration on Saturday, May 2, at 6pm, exactly 100...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Thirsk
Stuart Minting examines how a Christian group highlighted contrasting views of how the First World War affected a North Yorkshire market town. FOR members of Churches Together in Thirsk, marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War was about more than...
by Chris Lloyd | Hartlepool, In Your Town, Latest, Stockton, Thirsk, War Stories
THIRLBY is a little village to the east of Thirsk, which sits in the shadow of the Cleveland Hills as they rise up to the North York Moors. It has an old Scandinavian place name, like so many villages scattered across North Yorkshire and Cleveland. These names follow...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Thirsk
A SERIES of events will be held in Thirsk to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Thirsk Town Council has backed the Thirsk and District Churches Together programme, which includes reflective gatherings in the Market Place and an exhibition to...
