by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Durham, In Your Town, Latest
HISTORIANS are looking for help tracing the identity of First World War soldiers captured on photographs as they waited to go over the top 100 years ago. As the Battle of the Somme raged in 1916, men from the Durham Light Infantry queued to have their pictures taken...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stanley
THE centenary of the Battle of the Somme is being commemorated at a North-East museum with a weekend of activities. Beamish Museum, near Stanley, County Durham, will remember the soldiers and communities affected by the devastating First World War campaign from...
by Chris Lloyd | Durham, In Your Town, Latest
THE country will fall silent on Friday to honour those who gave their lives in the bloodiest battle in British military history. In cities and villages across the region, the sacrifice of thousands of ordinary soldiers killed or injured during the Battle of the Somme...
by Chris Lloyd | DLI Somme Diary, Durham, In Your Town, War Stories
In the final part of his series tracing the battalion’s march to the Battle of the Somme, Tony Kearney finds the Durham Pals on the eve of slaughter. EXACTLY 100 years ago today, a former railway fitter lazed in the sun in a French farmyard, his back against a barn...
by Chris Lloyd | Bishop Auckland, Centenary, In Your Town, Latest
AN old photograph kept in a biscuit tin has reunited a family. Margaret Eason took the old snapshot of her great uncle Arthur Corner to an open day at Durham County Record Office, which was collecting material for its Lottery-funded Durham At War project. All she knew...
