Thackeray Medical Museum June 27/28 2009

Photos of the Thackeray Medical Museum event taken on June 27/28 2009, featuring the K2 from Ice Cold in Alex, several pairs of knees and a black eye. Photos from Ed Hallet and Andrew Irving.

New Events for 2009

Two additional events have been added to the East York's calendar:

• Victory Show 5/6th September
• Pickering castle (English Heritage) 17/18th October.

Richmond Castle 13/14th June 2009

Here is a few of the photos from the Richmond Castle English Heritage event with more photos available here: Richmond Castle

Normandy Trip

Once again several members of the group made the trip to Normandy in time for the 65th anniversary commemoration. The party laid wreathes to the 2nd Battalion East Yorks at the 3rd Division Memorial at La Breche d’Hermanville and at the Hermanville War Cemetery. We also spent a very moving hour listening to the stories of veteran Dennis Peachy on Sword beach where he landed. The rest of the time was spent visiting many of the huge number of sites and museums. It is difficult to remember that every inch of this ground was bitterly fought over, but the numerous Commonwealth war cemeteries bear witness to the huge cost of the success of the invasion.

Further photos can be seen here: Normandy Photos

English Heritage Scarborough Castle Wartime Weekend

The English Heritage Scarborough Castle 1940's Wartime Weekend held over the Bank Holiday weekend (Sat 23 - Mon 25 May) was a great success. The group was honoured to have a visit by WWII East Yorkshire Regiment Veteran Alf Ackroyd and his family (Alf's son-in-law Tony kindly took some of the photos shown here). The group presented a display of period weapons, 14-man tent, dining shelter, radio tent and pup tents, a beach assault course display, drill and other military activities and joined with the NWW2A in simulated battles. The group has an active ATS section for female members. There where flypasts of the BBMF Douglas C47 and Spitfire. Further photos will be available soon. Membership enquiries can be directed to Sgt Dave Hebden (dave1944@hotmail.co.uk)

See also the Yorkshire Post article.

More can be seen here: Photos from Michael's camera. Including the caption competition.

Photos from Andrew's camera can be seen here: Andrew's Scarborough photos

Further photos taken by Tony and Karen can be seen here: Additional Scarborough photos

Haworth 1940's weekend

Helen has come across some photos in Flickr from the Haworth 1940's weekend. Click on the links below to see them.

Photo by Paul Sherriff
Photo by Tom Holmes
Photo by Simon Cliff
Photo by Graeme Mitchell

Elvington Event Photos

Here are a few of the photos taken at the Elvington event. Next weekend is Haworth followed by the English Heritage Scarborough event the week after. Additional Elvington Photos