by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Crook, In Your Town, Latest
A photograph of soldiers lined up at Westgate during the First World War has turned up, much to the delight of village hall officials. They will be able to put it on show when their large war memorial clock is put back in place to mark next year’s centenary of the...
by Chris Lloyd | Latest, War Stories
Ambulance trains bringing back the wounded from the front were so comfortable, one nurse reported, that the casualties could not sleep. The railways carried the soldiers off to the First World War frontline, and then they brought many of them home again – on ambulance...
by Chris Lloyd | Hartlepool, Hartlepool Bombardments, In Your Town, Latest, War Stories
In December 1914, the horror of the First World War was visited on three North-East coastal towns in a naval bombardment which lasted less than an hour but which awoke an enduring British fighting spirit. Chris Lloyd reports. IT was a misty morning. Grey and dank....
by Chris Lloyd | Belgian Refugees, In Your Town, Latest, Sedgefield, War Stories
There is a corner of Sedgefield that is forever Belgium. In fact, it is proudly Belgian. The colours of the national flag – black, yellow and red – on top of the headstone are almost as bold and as bright as the day they were placed there nearly 100 years ago. The...
by Chris Lloyd | Bishop Auckland, Latest, People
A book by a former Aycliffe headteacher tells the story of the Fighting Bradfords, four brothers who fought for their country in the First World War. The “Fighting Bradfords” were truly extraordinary: four brothers who between them during the First World War won two...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Sedgefield
A PARISH council is on a mission to restore a village cenotaph in time for the 100th anniversary of the First World War. Although, the war memorial at St Michael’s Church in Bishop Middleham, near Sedgefield, in County Durham, looks in good shape from a distance, in...
by Chris Lloyd | Belgian Refugees, Latest, War Stories
ON August 1, 1914, Germany declared war on Russia. On August 2, Germany demanded right of way across Belgium so that it could attack France, Russia’s ally. The Germans claimed that the French were about to invade Belgium, but the Belgian king and parliament...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Latest, Northallerton
STUDENTS from North Yorkshire will be amongst a party of pupils travelling to Belgium to collect soil from the battlefields of Flanders. Pupils from Northallerton College will joining other students from across the UK in taking part in a special Last Post Ceremony...
by Chris Lloyd | Bedale, Centenary, Latest
A PROJECT to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War is to be launched in North Yorkshire later this month. The Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty will be hosting a drop-in launch event in Masham town hall on November 16 from 10am to noon....
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Latest
Lonely soldiers looking for love during the First World War proposed to women they had never met after being sent letters to the trenches, records show. Young women were encouraged to write to servicemen fighting on the front line to kindle relationships – and...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Latest
A NEW exhibition will reveal how amateur football players from a North-East pit village were transformed from sporting legends to war heroes. From Football Field to Battlefield, at Cornforth Library in West Cornforth, County Durham, charts the fate of the village’s...
