Military History
Doncaster’s Military History
The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
The History Report
In 2024, a group of young carers worked with Heritage Doncaster to produce audio stories about soldiers of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and Doncaster’s Military History. The episodes were written, recorded and edited by the group.
Listen to ‘The History Report’
Military Monday
These articles were created as part of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Collections Project.
- 1: Welcome to the Military Mondays and the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Collections Project
- 2: Researching the KOYLI collection
- 3: Cataloguing and Digitising the KOYLI collection
- 4: KOYLI Outreach Projects
- 5: Lance Corporal Frank Jones
- 6: Letters Home
- 7: Reginald and Isabel Bond
- 8: The 51st at Waterloo
- 9: Discovering Private J: Military Medical Care
- 10: Discovering Private J: Military Discipline
- 11: Chatfield’s Royal Humane Society Medal
- 12: Herbert John Darley: Prisoner of War
- 13: Sports in the Army
- 14: Minden Day Through Time
- 15: Celebrating Minden Day, 2024
- 16: The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and Spandau Prison
- 17: The Regimental Wager Book
- 18: Three Prisoners From the 2nd Battalion
- 19: Discovering My Grandfather’s Medals
- 20: Perky the Panther Cub
- 21: Food in the Army
- 22: Four Times Military Cross Winner, Percy Bentley
- 23: Military Bands
- 24: Francis de Visme
- 25: The Life of William Hewitt
- 26: “An Outstanding Regimental Officer In Every Way” – Nicolas Sinclair Pope
- 27: 42 Years with the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry: Herbert Barker
- 28: Land of Perpetual Night – The KOYLI in Iceland 1940-1942
- 29: The Last Day of the First World War
- 30: The KOYLI’s Anti-Aircraft Gunners in the Second World War
- 31: Uniforms of the KOYLI
- 32: The Game Book
- 33: The Kennedys
- 34: Doncaster Home Guard
- 35: Christmas in the First World War
- 36: Mess Suggestions Book
- 37: The wooden leg of Derrick Willis
- 38: Harry George, A Soldier From Worksop
- 39: KOYLI Freedoms
- 40: Life at Schneidemuhl Prisoner of War Camp
- 41: Letters From My Son: Roger Spicer in the Second World War
- 42: Thomas Deakes of Dunscroft
- 43: Letters from France: Lancelot Spicer in the First World War
- 44: Second World War Propaganda
- 45: Women and the British Army
- 46: Arthur Greenald’s Notebook
- 47: The 105th Madras Light Infantry and the East India Company
- 48: George Don: Soldier, Spy, Governor
- 49: Dogs in the Army
- 50: The Regimental Chapel of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
- 51: KOYLI Volunteers
- 52: The end of the KOYLI Collections Project