by Chris Lloyd | 1916 Centenary, Centenary, Ferryhill, In Your Town, Latest, War Stories
YOUNGSTERS in County Durham are learning how the everyday lives of children their age were affected as the First World War raged in Western Europe a hundred years ago. As the men of the Durham Light Infantry laid down their lives in the fields of France, families on...
by Chris Lloyd | 1916 Centenary, Centenary, Latest
THEY died in their thousands and if they had failed in their objective millions of British people would have known severe hunger, even starvation; the war would have been lost and the history of the world would have been entirely different. Yet the 250,000 sailors of...
by Chris Lloyd | 1916 Centenary, Centenary, Latest
A GROUP of young people are looking into how life as a child in the First World War compares to living in the 21st Century. Investing in Children secured £9,900 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help with the new project, entitled “What happened to children whose...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Tyne & Wear
A FREE screening of the original documentary of the Battle of the Somme is to be shown on Armistice Day. Around 20 million people, roughly half the population of Britain at the time, watched the original film when it was released in cinemas in 1916. Now, to mark the...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Latest
A SOLDIER who died as a result of being gassed during the First World War has been commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for the first time. The name of John Sedman, a Private from North Yorkshire, is one of 77 that have been added to the Commission’s...
