A Message for Remembrance Day
The Teesside Pioneers, 12th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, was a battalion of friends raised on the banks of the Tees. Responding to the call to serve, they joined the army and because of their engineering and construction skills, they became Army Pioneers, the troops put to work making roads, building trenches, but also required to fight. The Teesside Pioneers served in France and Belgium, suffering such heavy casualties that eventually the troops that were left were incorporated into other units. The son of Russian refugees who had come to Teesside, Lt. Harold Bloom, 12 Battalion, was killed on 14 February 1917, fighting for his adopted country.
11 Nov 2019
