ONE hundred years ago this week, one of the region’s most notable war memorials was unveiled. It is at the top of Frenchgate in Richmond and, said The Northern Echo, was dedicated to the 7,500 officers and men from the Green Howards regiment, which had been headquartered in the town, who had been killed.
When the Frenchgate war memorial was unveiled 100 years ago this week, the D&S Times reported that the four buglers “faultlessly” played The Last Post. Picture: GREEN HOWARDS MUSEUM During the First World War, 65,000 men had served in the regiment, and now reckoned that about 9,000 of them never made it back to Richmond.
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