51st (2nd Yorkshire, West Riding) Light Infantry at Waterloo June 1815. by Brian Palmer  Major C. A. L. Yate Leading The Nineteen Survivors Of His Company In A Charge At The Battle Of Le Cateau.         During the battle of Le Cateau, on August 26th 1914, Major Charles Allix Lavington Yate, of the 2nd Battalion, The Kings Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry), commanded one of the two companies hat remained to the end in the trenches at Le Cateau, and when all other officers were killed or wounded, and ammunition exhausted, led his nineteen survivors against the enemy in a charge in which he was severely wounded.  He was picked up by the enemy and subsequently died as a prisoner of war.  For his great gallantry he was awarded the V.C. Corporal Lappin Returning to his Trench After Having Captured a Bulgarian Flag by W S Bagdatopulos  On 27th October 1915, on the Yser Canal, Corporal W H Lappin, 1st/5th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, proceeded entirely on his own initiative and unaccompanied, to make a reconnaissance of the enemy's trenches. He went over our parapet, crawled across about 100 yards of intervening space and under the German barbed wire to their parapet. There he looked through a small breach and obtained valuable information as to the condition of the trenches and the strength in which they were held, and successfully returned with the desired intelligence. On the 29th October Corporal Lappin again went over the parapet in broad daylight, and crawled to a Bulgarian flag, fixed by the Germans about 80 yards from our trenches and thirty yards from their own, and brought it with its 9 foot pole, safely back to our trenches under a heavy rifle fire. He was awarded the DCM.