by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Durham, In Your Town, Latest
THIS month sees the end of this year’s series of events and activities across the country marking the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. Here in Durham, the county council sought to ensure that the sacrifice of those brave men who fought for our freedom would never...
by Chris Lloyd | 1916 Centenary, Centenary, Harrogate, In Your Town, Latest, Ripon, War Stories, York
THE family of a soldier awarded the Victoria Cross for leading a counter-attack, against greatly superior numbers, during a key part of the Battle of the Somme have spoken of their pride after a memorial to honour him was unveiled in his home town. Numerous members of...
by Chris Lloyd | 1916 Centenary, Centenary
The battalions of the Durham Light Infantry paid heavily for its infamous assault on the Butte de Warlencourt, an ugly mound of land dubbed ‘that miniature Gibraltar’. Chris Lloyd counts the cost. THE tree-lined D929 runs dead straight through the flat fields on the...
by Chris Lloyd | 1916 Centenary, Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Northallerton, Richmond, Thirsk, War Stories
A Lottery-funded project has documented the story of the community hospitals of the First World War. Ashley Barnard reports. THE role of the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses throughout the First World War was vital, as swathes of injured men came back from the front...
by Chris Lloyd | 1916 Centenary, Centenary, Latest, War Stories
A Darlington historian has found the stories behind the names on a plaque to fallen First World War soldiers in one of the town’s churches. Chris Webber talked to him. FRANCIS LOVE TELFORD: just one more name on a plaque to the war dead in just another ordinary small...
