by Chris Lloyd | Durham, In Your Town, Latest
A DURHAM University student has taken the first steps in a poignant 950-mile journey on foot to the battlefields of the Somme. Jordan Blunsom, 22, will walk more than 30 miles a day over 31 days, raising cash for the veterans’ charity Walking with the Wounded. He will...
by Chris Lloyd | DLI Somme Diary, Durham, In Your Town, War Stories
LANCE-Corporal Frank Derwent Lockey was 34 when he was killed 100 years ago this week. He was part of a working party sent up to the frontline to repair the British barbed wire against German raids when he was hit in the head by a sniper. His friends later recounted...
by Chris Lloyd | In Your Town, Latest, Richmond, War Stories
ONE hundred years ago this weekend, 16 men were secretly spirited out of the dungeons of Richmond castle and sent by train to the killing fields of northern France where their own government hoped they would be shot at dawn by their fellow countrymen pour encourager...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Scarborough
HISTORIANS from Germany and Britain have collaborated on what’s believed to be a unique bilingual book about the German bombardment of the East coast in 1914. Scarborough Bombardment, by Dr Jann M Witt, naval historian at the German Naval Memorial, and retired British...
by Chris Lloyd | DLI Somme Diary, Durham, In Your Town, War Stories
THE third and final time the Durham Pals went into the frontline trenches ahead of the Battle of the Somme was by far the toughest. In their first two spells at the front in northern France, the 18th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry held the line at...
