by Chris Lloyd | Bishop Auckland, Latest
AT 3.15pm exactly 100 years ago this afternoon, two battalions of the Durham Light Infantry rose up out of their trenches to attack enemy lines, led by Lt Col Roland Bradford. They had been engaged in the heaviest fighting on the Somme since September 15, practically...
by Chris Lloyd | In Your Town, Latest, People, Tyne & Wear
THE previously unknown truth behind the tragic and senseless death of a Durham Light Infantry soldier 100 years ago today has finally solved a life-long mystery. For the 102-year-old daughter of Lance Corporal John McDonald has just discovered he was executed for...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Newton Aycliffe
THE Remembrance Sunday special edition of The Northern Echo provided an enormous shock for Arnold Stewart. It contained an article about a collection of postcards that a County Durham miner turned soldier sent from the Western Front back to his new wife in Chilton...
by Chris Lloyd | Barnard Castle, Crook, Durham, In Your Town, Latest
WARTIME graffiti buried deep beneath a French battlefield has been unearthed 100 years after it was written by North-East soldiers. Pen and pencil messages scrawled on tunnel walls by Durham Light Infantry soldiers during the First World War has been discovered by...
by Chris Lloyd | Darlington, In Your Town, Latest
ON the east bank of the River Skerne, there used to be a network of tight terraced streets with hundreds of homes that were cleared away in the late 1960s so the inner ring road could bulldoze through. Possibly the only survivor from the days of the terraces is a...
