by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Newcastle, Tyne & Wear
PENNED in miniscule handwriting in small leatherbound notebook the text is so tiny it is hard to read without leaning up close. But what it lacked in size was more than made up in the enormity of the impact of its message. Siegfried Sassoon’s declaration against war...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Newcastle
DRAWINGS, poetry and details of more than 120 injured servicemen collected by a nurse tending to them during the First World War will be the highlight of a North-East auctioneer’s next sale. The fascinating snapshot has been captured in a “commonplace...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Newcastle
A FALLEN soldier from the North-East is among ten to be positively identified almost 100 years after were killed during the early months of the First World War. An appeal has also been issued to trace the descendants of two other soldiers from the region yet to be...
by Chris Lloyd | Bishop Auckland, Centenary, Harrogate, In Your Town, Latest, Newcastle
AS the anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War looms, the extraordinary courage of a true hero of the conflict has been immortalised in bronze. Former professional footballer Donald Bell was awarded the Victoria Cross for his exploits at the Battle of the...
