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Richmond Castle. Photo: English Heritage
Conscientious objectors in prison
Conscientious objectors were held in Richmond Castle during World War One before being sent to France for court martial.

Remembrance service at Selby Cemetery War heroes remembered again
Two memorial tablets to soldiers who served in the Boer and Great Wars have gone on view in a permanent home in Selby.

Entrance to a tunnel under 'no man's land'. The Somme, 1916. Photograph by Lieutenant J S Purvis. Copyright Green Howards Regimental Museum. Unique photos from the Great War
Rare photographs taken by a Yorkshire soldier give a unique view of the Battle of the Somme.


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