This remote war memorial carries the following inscription

For Remembrance Guardsmen Robbie Leggott killed in action 1916 Alf Cockerill died of wounds 1920 duty 1914.

Some research was done on Rootchat which follows :-

In 1914 they both went to London together and joined the Grenadier Guards. Robert Leggott lied about his age, he was only 17. He was killed in 1916 on the Somme aged 19 an his bodied never found. His name is on the Thiepval Memorial in Flanders. In July 1916 the 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards were holding trenches near Ypres. They were attacks on both sides of their position resulting in close quarter fighting and shelling. There was also sniper activity. In these actions Alfred Cockerill was wounded in the head. Alf was sent home. Back in UK, he was declare unfit for any futher duty. His head wound had serious damaged him. He now had epilepsy and would never return to the moors. He was one of the many head injuries and shellshock cases places in mental hospitals. He was sent to the Chalfont Colony opened 1894 by The National Society for the Employment of Epileptics, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire. He spent four years there, dying at the Epilepsia Colony on 11th August 1920 of Epilepsy and Meningitis.

In May 2002 I was fortunate enough to visit this post when it was dry and completely intact, there were maps on the walls, magazines in the drawers and even a message left by the last watch. Before I could return and take photographs the entrance was filled with soil and access was lost. Luckily Nick Catford managed to get photos around that time.
I always regretted the missed opportunity and not having recorded it when I had the chance, so those events were in my mind when I came to start up this website.
However after a lost decade the site is once again open.

Sadly due to the lid being thrown down the hole, water is getting in its in poor condition.

This metal plate was where the ‘Bomb Power Indicator’ was mounted.

The air vent has taken a lot of abuse, being nearly smashed to pieces.

Inside the entrance is now half-filled with soil

The contents of the post is generally trashed and all the papers and maps gone.

A couple of nice features still remain, such as a hand-written note about sounding the siren, protected from damp by glass.

The back of the door also has a notice of the post name and number still attached.

Coastal erosion has recently revealed what I believe are the foundations of WW2 anti-tank cubes at Millclose Howle, they were not visible on the current Google Earth images.

The cubes would have blocked access at this point by invading tanks.

The cubes themselves were probably destroyed soon after the war, but these stubs remain.

A block of three is fully revealed, but there are more still hidden under the soil that appear more intact.

This vehicle is sat within the SSI / TataSteel site at Lackenby, it looks on the surface to be a Morris Commercial from the Dunkirk evacuations

In reality its a prop from the filming of Atonement at Redcar in 2006

The Commondale War Memorial carries the following inscription.

In Honoured Memory of the Men of Commondale, who Gave Their Lives for God, King, and Country, in the Great War. 1914 – 1918. Their Name Shall Live For Ever; and Their Glory Shall Not be Blotted Out. Lest We Forget.

There are 9 names :-
Thomas Monk
Samuel Lawson
Thomas Gibson
Robert H Leggott
William Hill
Frederick W Robinson
Charles E Foster
Alfred Cockerill
David Johnson

A small plaque at the base reads.
Dressed and Erected by J. Ford, Castleton
Designed by W.H. Earl, Danby