by Chris Lloyd | DLI Somme Diary, Latest, War Stories
Tony Kearney tells what the Durham Pals – volunteer soldiers from across the region – were doing 100 years ago this week, in the build up to their date with destiny: July 1, 1916, and the Battle of the Somme. AFTER two months in the Egyptian desert, the...
by Chris Lloyd | In Your Town, Latest, Northallerton
THE fascinating secret stories of the men who appealed against having to serve in the trenches during the First World War are slowly being revealed. Compulsory military service – or conscription – came into effect 100 years ago with the Military Service Act of 1916....
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Crook, In Your Town, Latest
PUPILS at Wolsingham School have begun a project to commemorate soldiers who lost their lives in one of the biggest battles of the First World War. Students from years nine to 13 will be visiting France in July to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. The 25...
by Chris Lloyd | Barnard Castle, Centenary, In Your Town, Latest
A NEW database containing a generation of men who served in the First World War is now available thanks to a major project. The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle is almost two years into a five-and-a-half year project to record details of every soldier from the Teesdale...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Durham, In Your Town, Latest, Peterlee
THE skies above Wheatley Hill were eerily thick with mist as a trio of buglers from the Durham (The Rifles) Company sounded The Last Post shortly after 11am. But, as Father Kenneth Crawford, chaplain to the Durham Light Infantry (DLI) Association, reflected, it was...
