Formed in Middlesborough by the Mayor & Town on 21st December 1914.
The Commonwealth War graves Commission has 162 recorded WW1 deaths for the 12th (Service) Battalion, (Teeside Pioneers), Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own, (Yorkshire Regiment), (Green Howards).
SPENCER, Anthony. Private, 41056. 12th (Service) Battalion, (Teeside Pioneers), Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own, (Yorkshire Regiment), (Green Howards). Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 12-04-1918. Age 34. Son of Anthony & Alice Spencer of Yew Tree House, Bank Road, Matlock, Derbyshire, UK. Native of Wensley, Matlock.