York | The North-East At War

PROUD: The relatives of Archie White VC who attended the ceremony Pictures: Tom Wharton Photos

Family’s pride at memorial honouring VC winner Archie White

Stuart Minting

The Earl and Countess of Feversham with officers, NCOs and men who enlisted in the 21st King's Royal Rifles Corps from Helmsley, before they left for active service in May 1916

Service for courageous Earl of Feversham who fell to German gunfire as he stood to rally his men

Stuart Minting

Promising composer and lifelong steelworker killed in Somme trenches 100 years ago

Chris Lloyd

DIARY KEEPER: Wass Reader is standing in the wagon, third from left, in this picture. (Courtesy of Hedon Museum)

First-hand true story of the horror of the First World War

Mark Foster

Cartoonist’s ‘stiff upper lip’ humour shows in sketches created on battlefields of 1916

Mark Foster

First World War fighter designed to take on Zeppelins unveiled at York museum

Mark Foster

Katie Brown, the Assistant Curator of History for the York Museums Trust with the First World War diaries

Museum appeals for help to translate First World War diaries

Stuart Minting

Soldiers in the trenches, believed to be at Ypres

£1m boost to the commemoration of the First World War

Mark Foster

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