Probably the closest to home entry the website will ever see. I found this whist digging the garden a few months ago and have gradually cleaned it from a blob of rust into a recognisable button.
After a little investigation I believe it to World War 1 General Service Corps button,
Heres a mint example from Cold War Warrior
Show on map Captain John Bell was transporting coal on the SS Thordis off Beachy Head on February 28th 1915 when his boat was attacked by a German submarine.
With his unarmed ship he managed to ram the periscope and became the first to sink a U-boat, the captain and his crew were given a total reward of £860, the equivalent of £75,000 today.
His Distinguished Service Order medal and engraved watch came up for action in 2013.
This grave has also been restored by Friends of Redcar Cemetery, their Chairman Ged Fleming add :-
The monies needed for the refurbishment of Capt Bell’s memorial was provided by a Nationwide collection through the Merchant Navy Association by a Stockton member Billy McGee.We recommended a stone mason and arranged for a dedication service attended by Capt Bell’s family.One of the family brought a bottle of beer which rested against the stone for three year before it disappeared
Show on map What looks like a normal gravestone is actually a memorial to Redcar soldiers killed in the Boer War. Corporal Wilson Wiles wounded at Paadeburg (this is spelt incorrectly on the stone it should be Paardeberg) died 5 months later in hospital.
Privates Hardy and Wilkinson who were killed at Paardeberg and Outhwaite who died of ‘enteric’ which we would now know as typhoid.
The memorial was recently restored by the Friends of Redcar Cemetery.
A sketch exists if the newspaper of the time, although it should noted it says he was the fifth Redcar soldier to be killed, so someone is missing from the memorial (the name on the side is from 1940 presumably Wiles brother)
Possibly this Private Hodgson 
Show on map This mosaic was comissioned by Friends of Redcar Cemetery and unveiled on 1st September 2013
The artist was John Todd who also did the Mo Mowlem mosaic
Among those present were Rev Rachel Harrison, Ian Swales MP, Redcar and Cleveland’s Mayor Vic Jeffries, Lord Zetland, and the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, Anthony Wharton.
Show on map This memorial to Sir Rex Hunt (29 June 1926 – 11 November 2012) is due to be unveiled on Friday 6th September 2013 at 3.30pm.
Sir Rex Hunt was born nearby on Laburnum Road, he is best known for being Governor of the Falkland Islands during the 1982 invasion.
The memorial has a governor’s sword hanging from the side as Sir Rex is remembered for meeting the Argentine invaders wearing a full dress uniform with ostrich plumes and a sword.
Show on map Hudson N7298 of 224 Squadron crashed near this point on 11th January 1941.
The four airmen survived the crash, but tragically died of the injuries and exposure on the moor before being found.
Pilot – P/O Basil Lincoln “Peter” Fox , 26
Pilot/Navigator – Sgt Keith Barnet Files , 27
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner – Sgt William Robert Martin, 25
Air Gunner – P/O John McDonald Scott Wylie, 21
This plaque was dedicated on the 72nd anniversary of the crash in 2013.
Yorkshire Aircraft carries a huge amount of detail about the incident.
Show on map Andrew Mynarski was a Canadian airman who died on 13th June 1944 when his Lancaster bomber caught fire after being shot down over northern France. He tried to rescue tail gunner Pat Brophy who was trapped in his turret. Mynarski’s parachute and flight suit caught fire and he died shortly after bailing out of severe burns.
Amazingly Pat Brophy survived the fire, crash and the subsequent detonation of the bombs and was able to tell the story of the efforts to same him which resulted in Andrew Mynarski being awarded the Victoria Cross.
Mynarski was a member of 419 Squadron, who are commemorated nearby along with 420 and 428 Squadrons.
Show on map Erimus was an area of three streets (Erimus Terrace, Pioneer Street and Stainton Street) and a hotel that once stood mid-way between Thornaby and Middlesbrough, it was built to house the workers of the Erimus Ironworks. 
The whole area was demolished in 1963 to make way for developments on the railway and is now near the road junction for Teesside Park on the A66.
AÂ war memorial was erected in 1920 at Erimus for the six local men who died in WW1.
Private J R Donnison, 2nd Yorkshire Regt.
Stoker A Wright, H M S Carribean
Stoker J R Sharp, H M S Queen Mary
Private J G Wales, 9th Yorkshire Regt.
Private T Munroe, DLI
Private W Munroe, DLI
The memorial moved to a chapel in Thornaby in 1959 and was moved to it’s current location in the cemetery in 22/7//2006 where it was unveiled by Mayor Pat Large and Ken Craggs.
Show on map I have previously covered Tom Browns Tree which marks his 1705 birthplace, so today his grave which is a replica of a Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone that was presented by the Queen’s Own Hussars in 1968.
As previously mentioned he is known for his role in the Battle of Dettingen which took place on 27th June 1743 in Bavaria during the War of the Austrian Succession.
His regiments standard was captured and while recovering it he received terrible injuries to his face including his nose being cut off. He is said to have been given a silver nose by King George II.
He retired to Yarm with a pension of 30 shillings from the King, as two shots from the battle could not be safely removed from his back, he died there in 1746.
Show on map This plaque commemorates the 8 local men who served in what is now known as the Second Boer War between 1899–1902
1st P.W.O. 19th Yorkshire Regiment:
Corp. George Temple Todd
Pte. Thomas William Baldridge
Pte. Matthew Henry Dawson
Pte. Albert Vickers Wilson
Pte. Henry Thomas Fisher
Imperial Yeomanry:
Tpr. Edward Holt
Tpr. Hereward Sadler
also Pte. Owen O’Shaughnessey, 3rd P.W.O. Yorkshire Regt. who was killed at the Battle of Paardeberg, Feb. 18th, 1900.