
East Yorkshire Regiment Cadet to be Second Lieutenant dated 21 December 1940 ,

2nd Battalion Officer Commanding B Coy May 1938 , 2nd Battalion Awarded General Service Medal clasp Palestine 36 to 39 on 4 April 1940 , Having exceeded the age limit for retirement is placed on retirement pay 18 September 1948 and is granted the Honourary Rank of Lieutenant Colonel

East Yorkshire Regiment to be Captain dated 23 May 1915 , East Yorkshire Regiment seconded for service as Brigade Machine Gun Officer dated 15 July 1915 , East Yorkshire Regiment Awarded Military Cross attached Machine Gun Corps London Gazette 28 December 1917

Military Cross Hull Daily News 2 October 1918

2nd Bn A Coy Classified marksman 11/04/1913

East yorkshire Regiment to be Lieutenant 30 August 1937

AVL Hull 1918

3rd Battalion to be Lieutenant dated 2 October 1914 late Lieutenant The Royal Dublin Fusiliers , 3rd Battalion to be Captain 2 October 1914 , 3rd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment to be Commandant (2nd Class) and seconded to Detention Barracks dated 18 September 1915 , 3rd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment to be Temporary Major 8 April 1917 , 3rd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment to be Acting Major while 2nd in Command of a Battalion dated 7 September 1917 , 3rd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment Railway Traffic Officer graded as Staff Lieutenant 1st Class 18 June 1918

Medal Index Card Entered Egypt 22 December 1915 , 10th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment attended School for class of Instruction in Granade Work 7 April 1916 , Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 4 January 1916 , Memorials of Rugbeians Who Fell in the Great War LESLIE DILWORTH PIERSON was the only surviving son of the Reverand William Birkbeck Pierson, Vicar of Rothwell, Leeds, and of Sarah Maria his wife, of Ghyll Close, Saltburn by the Sea.
He entered the School in 1910 and left in 1914, intending to up to Cambridge. He received a Commission in the East Yorkshire Regiment in January 1915, and went with it to Egypt in the following December. His Battalion was transferred to the French Front in February, 1916, and he took part in the Battle of the Somme July 1st, 1916 and again in October when he was reported

AVL Hull 1918 , Photo of grave

Reported Wounded July 1917

2nd Battalion Awarded General Service Medal clasp Palestine 36 to 39 on 4 April 1940

3rd Battalion joined from Royal Military College Sandhurst on First Appointment 14 April 1916

East Yorkshire Regiment Cadet to be Second Lieutenant dated 26 October 1940

13th Battalion to be Temporary Second Lieutenant dated 10 November 1914

3rd Battalion to be Second Lieutenant on probation dated 16 May 1915 , 3rd Battalion G Coy South Dalton Christmas 1915 , 3rd Battalion Departed to join British Expeditionary Force 18 May 1916

5th Battalion to be Second Lieutenant dated 29 August 1914

France

Transferred to Foresters to be 2nd Lieutenant (War Substantive Lieutenant) 26 June 1940 and retain present seniority

Medal Index Card entered Egypt 8 December 1915 , 4th Battalion Officers Ripon Camp 1929 Photo ,