From Middlesbrough via Gosforth, Cannock Chase, Aldershot, to France with 40th Div. Dug trenches and made roads until 15 Ravine then pain in Bourlon Wood, final tragedy on the Lys in 1918...cos my 'Grandad was a Green 'Oward' with the 12th(S)Bn. Yorkshire Regt.(Teesside Pioneers)...

Here you go Chris, currently struggling to write the story of the 'Teesside Pioneers'...ps got some good ideas from your Battle of the Lys video on YouTube, the 12th Yorks were part of the 'Forgotten Fourtieth' a one time Bantam Div. ended up with 2nd Portuguese Div. on their right flank...

This is St Germaines churchyard, a 13th century church unused and partly demolished. Stands overlooking the cliffs of ancient Cleveland on the North East coast of England. I was recording the war graves of ww1 for my blog www.talesfrommyshed.wordpress.com maybe visit and read more about them...

@airpowerhistory.bsky.social Lying a long way from home...Arthur Cecil Doucet, killed whilst training at No2 Defensive Flying School, Marske By The Sea, Yorkshire...Enlisted 'Mount Carmel, Quebec'...

A long way from home...Flight Lieutenant Arthur Cecil Doucet, Enlisted in Canada and travelled to England, training at N02 Defensive Fighter School, Marske By The Sea, Yorkshire. He died in a flying accident and Rests in the churchyard of St Germaine, on the clifftop overlooking the Tees Bay...#WW1

@britwarmemorial.bsky.social A small Memorial near where I live in East Cleveland, England...Dunsdale, a former Ironstone Mining village, consisting of two rows of terraced houses. The mine was adjacent to the 'village' and four men of the village appear on it's small well kept memorial...

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Guisborough War Memorial opposite St Nicholas church, the Ancient Capital of Cleveland, on the North East coast of England...

The Teesside Pioneers, long lost, long forgotten but fascinating to me...Raised as a 'Pals' Battalion in 1915, destroyed at the Battle of the Lys in 1918. Majority were local to Middlesbrough. Green Howards all...XIX...