* John Cunningham ( VC 1916 ) ( 1897 – 1941 ), East Yorkshire Regiment

* Private Henry Tandey was awarded his VC, for actions, during his service with the ' Dukes ' and donated his medals to the Regimental Museum in Halifax, West Yorkshire.

* Acting-Sergeant Hanson Victor Turner-originally in the regiment he was serving with The West Yorkshire Regiment ( The Prince of Wales's Own ) when he was awarded his VC.

Cunningham was 19 years old, and a private in the 12th ( Service ) Battalion, ( the Hull Sportsmen's Pals battalion ), The East Yorkshire Regiment, 31st Division during the First World War, at the Battle of the Somme, when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

* Location of grave and VC medal ( East Yorkshire )

* John Cunningham ( English VC ), East Yorkshire Regiment

Anderson was 27 years old, and a private in the 5th Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment, British Army during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

He was 26 years old, and a sergeant in the 1st Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment ( Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own ), British Army during the Second Boer War when the following deed took place on 18 February 1900 during the Battle of Paardeberg, South Africa for which he was awarded the VC:

Ward was 22 years old, and a private in the 2nd Battalion, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, British Army during the Second Boer War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC:

Watson was 41 years old, and an Acting Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 2nd / 5th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry ( now part of The Rifles ) during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

* Location of grave and VC medal ( South Yorkshire )

* Location of grave and VC medal ( West Yorkshire )

* Location of grave and VC medal ( East Yorkshire )

* Location of grave and VC medal ( South Yorkshire )

* Location of grave and VC medal ( West Yorkshire )

He was 23 years old, and a sergeant in the 8th ( S ) Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment ( Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own ), British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

He was 24 years old, and a private in the 7th Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment ( Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own ), British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

* Location of grave and VC medal ( West Yorkshire )

Calvert was 26 years old, and a sergeant in the 5th Battalion, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, British Army during the First World War when, on 12 September 1918 at Havrincourt, France at the Battle of Havrincourt, the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

He was 25 years old, and a corporal in the 6th Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment ( Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own ), British Army when he was awarded the VC for actions on 9 October 1917 at the Battle of Poelcapelle, Belgium which led to his death.

* Location of grave and VC medal ( West Yorkshire )

* Location of grave and VC medal ( North Yorkshire )

* Location of grave and VC medal ( South Yorkshire )

* Location of grave and VC medal ( West Yorkshire )

Mansel-Jones was 28 years old, and a captain in The West Yorkshire Regiment ( The Prince of Wales's Own ), British Army during the Second Boer War when the following deed took place in Natal for which he was awarded the VC:

Roger's regiment was disbanded on the day of Sterne ’ s birth, and within six months the family had returned to Yorkshire in northern England.

On Valentine ’ s Day, February 14, 2003, on the eve of the Iraqi invasion by the Americans and the British, Ono heard about a romantic couple holding a love-in protest in their tiny bedroom in Addingham, West Yorkshire.

In Bingley, Yorkshire, a group of ‘ physical force ’ Chartists led by Isaac Ickeringill were involved in a huge fracas at the local magistrates court and later prosecuted for rescuing two of their compatriots from the police.

Since 2007 the North Yorkshire Moors Railway ’ s Artist in Residence Christopher Ware can be seen at work in an open studio at the station which is open every day when trains are running, and often when they are not ( see the website ).

First held in 2007, it was shortlisted in the ‘ Best New Festival ’ category of the Virtual Festival Awards The ethos of the event is to present high quality music at an affordable price and give a platform for local bands from across West Yorkshire to a large audience.

Greater Grimsby is undergoing a radical transformation as part of Yorkshire Forward ’ s Renaissance Towns Programme.

In the new company, the disadvantages of the Midland ’ s route were clear — its steeper gradients and greater length meant it could not compete on speed from London to Glasgow, especially as Midland route trains had to make more stops to serve major cities in the Midlands and Yorkshire.

The western end of the parish reaches to the upper parts of the Upper Derwent Valley with part of its boundary forming Yorkshire ’ s border with Derbyshire.

Moving south from the Tees David ’ s army would have had the high ground of the North Yorkshire Moors on its left, and the River Swale on its right.

The line's current principal operator is East Coast, whose services include regular trains between King ’ s Cross, the East Midlands, Yorkshire, the North East of England and Scotland.

Following a meeting with the Yorkshire Police Federation, Shersby was invited to assist in the development of a ‘ counter attack ’ to ‘ repudiate ’ Lord Justice Taylor ’ s Interim Report, which had condemned the evidence and testimony of senior police officers and rejected as exaggerated the allegations made against Liverpool fans.

The two men became close friends, and when Josias died in 1761, two years after the completion of the lighthouse, William Jessop was taken on as a pupil by Smeaton ( who also acted as Jessop ’ s guardian ), working on various canal schemes in Yorkshire.

He had assumed by Royal license the surname of Bosville in 1832 and had in 1847 inherited his father ’ s Bosville estates in Yorkshire by Act of Parliament.

In 1996 Newsquest swapped its Yorkshire titles for Johnston Press ’ s Bury, Lancashire area titles and £ 9. 25 million, sold some of its titles in the English Midlands to Midland Independent Newspapers and bought the Westminster Press local newspapers group for £ 12. 3 million from Pearson, owner of Penguin Books and the Financial Times, resulting in Newsquest doubling in size.

Following the industrial revolution and the expansion of the railways, a station was opened in Norton in 1855 on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway ’ s Knottingley Branch.

In Lutheran Sweden, religious life for women had been established already in 1954, when Sister Marianne Nordström made her profession through contacts with The Order of the Holy Paraclete and Mother Margaret Cope ( 1886 – 1961 ) at St Hilda ’ s Priory, Whitby, Yorkshire.

Irish Oaks, Yorkshire Oaks and Prix De L ’ Opera

Born on 14 December 1945 in Leeds, Yorkshire, with Black Country links on his mother ’ s side, he is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ( FRICS ) and co-founder, in the 1980s, of Nattrass Giles, a commercial property business.

One of the most recent was The Lady ’ s Not For Burning for Yorkshire TV, starring Kenneth Branagh, in 1987.

* Yorkshire Cup ( rugby union ) (" T ’ owd tin pot "), a rugby union competition for Yorkshire clubs

The earliest certain reference to cricket in Yorkshire dates from 1751 when local matches were held in Sheffield and a game took place on or soon after Monday, 5 August at Stanwick, near Richmond, between the Duke of Cleveland ’ s XI and Earl of Northumberland ’ s XI ; the same teams having earlier played a game at Durham.