1916

January 24th The British Government introduces conscription.

February 21st Battle of Verdun commences.

July 1st First day of the Battle of the Somme, resulting in 57,000 British and imperial casualties.

July 1st Horace Iles, a sixteen-year-old from Woodhouse, is killed on the first day of the battle of the Somme. He had lied about his age in order to enlist at 14. A memorial window can be found in the Emmanuel Centre on Woodhouse Lane.

September 25th Zeppelins attack Leeds. Harewood House was the only site in Leeds ever to be bombed during the war.

December 5th The first of three explosions at Barnbow Munitions Factory which killed 40 women in total. Barnbow produced a total of 566,000 shells during the war.

1918February 6th The Representation of the People Act is given Royal Assent, allowing women over the age of thirty to vote.

March 21st Start of the German Spring offensive.

April 25th Captain George Sanders, a recipient of the Victoria Cross from Leeds, becomes a military prisoner of war.

August 8th Battle of Amiens and the start of the 100 Days offensive.

November 8th Armistice negotiations commence.

November 11th Armistice Day.

November 11th The last British soldier to die in the war, Private George Edwin Ellison from Leeds, is killed at Mons an hour and a half before the official ceasefire at 11am.

1920

March 28th The Lady Chapel of Leeds Minster is rededicated as a Memorial Chapel.

October 14th Leeds War Memorial is first unveiled in City Square. It was moved to the Headrow in 1937.

1919January 27th Harewood House hospital wing closes, having treated 1,296 patients over the war.

1917April 6th The United States declares war on Germany.

March 8th Russian Revolution, which inspired the Leeds Socialist Convention.

June 3rd Leeds Socialist Convention (see overleaf).

June 3rd and 4th Anti-Jewish riots take place in Leylands area of Leeds, due to tensions over a perceived lack of recruitment from the Jewish population.

June 7th Battle of Messines. The army chaplain Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, or ‘Woodbine Willie’, who was educated at Leeds Grammar School, was awarded the Military Cross for his actions during this battle.

1915

January 5th Auxiliary war hospital established at Harewood House. Initially provision was made for 50 patients; this was later increased by using tents.

May 31st First German Zeppelin raid on London.

June Observation post established atop the Town Hall (see overleaf). Spring 1915 All the art from the city is moved to Temple Newsam for safekeeping.

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