The Hull Rifles, later the 4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force first raised in Kingston upon Hull in 1859. During the First World War it served on the Western front, seeing a great deal of action at Ypres, the Somme, Arras, and in the German spring offensive, when it was virtually destroyed. Its 2nd Line battalion garrisoned Bermuda for much of the war. During the Second World War the 4th Battalion was captured at the Battle of Gazala, but its wartime duplicate unit fought on through the Western Desert, Tunisia and Sicily, and then landed in Normandy on D Day. The battalion served in the postwar Territorial Army until 1960, and its successors in today's Army Reserve continue in Hull.
Cap badge of the East Yorkshire Regiment, granted to the battalion in 1885
Londesborough Barracks, Hull.
Preserved trenches at Sanctuary Wood Museum Hill 62.
British Mark I Male tank, preparing to advance at Flers–Courcelette.
William Denison, 1st Earl of Londesborough
William Henry Forester Denison, 1st Earl of Londesborough, known as The Lord Londesborough from 1860 to 1887, was a British peer and Liberal politician. He was also one of the main founders of Scarborough FC.
William Denison, 1st Earl of Londesborough
Londesborough as pictured in Vanity Fair, 19 October 1878
