by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Sedgefield
THERE are 29 names on the war memorial at St Michael’s Church in Bishop Middleham, County Durham. Twenty one of these men died in the First World War. In a conflict that claimed the lives of millions of soldiers, 21 may not seem like a great number but for such a...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Durham, In Your Town, Latest
THE centenary of the First World War is being marked in Sherburn Village, near Durham City, by installing additions to its seven-year-old war memorial. Two inscribed granite stones are being placed on either side of the monument, which is next to the community centre....
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Darlington, In Your Town, Latest
The archives of a North-East museum are providing a fascinating insight into the railway workers who gave their lives to help the war effort. Vicki Henderson reports. THE heavy casualties sustained by the North Eastern Railway (NER) during the First World War are to...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Middlesbrough
YOUNG and old turned out to pay tribute to the fallen at a Remembrance Service in Smith’s Dock Park, on Teesside yesterday. The war memorial pays tribute to workers from the former shipyard who lost their lives during the First and Second World Wars. Among the people...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Chester-le-Street, In Your Town, Latest
CHESTER-LE-STREET’S Remembrance service will be more poignant than usual. For years there have rumblings of discontent about the small obelisk opposite the town’s parish church that has been its memorial for more than 20 years. Now the first service will be held...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Darlington, In Your Town, Latest
“DON’T put the men’s ranks on the memorial because they’re all my lads,” were the words of a headteacher in 1923. Mr J Broughton, the head at St John’s School, in Darlington, was speaking before the unveiling of a memorial plaque and roll of honour dedicated to former...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Latest
THE front cover of today’s historic edition of The Northern Echo was produced by acclaimed North-East artist Mackenzie Thorpe. The Middlesbrough-born artist, whose work is in demand all over the world, was asked to work on a poppy design and the front page is the...
by Chris Lloyd | Catterick, Centenary, In Your Town, Latest
AN injured Armed Forces veteran has risen to a challenge set by The Northern Echo to produce a work of art for today’s Remembrance Sunday special edition. Malcolm Macdonald, who suffers from an extreme form of post-traumatic stress disorder, attends art classes as...
by Chris Lloyd | Bishop Auckland, Centenary, In Your Town, Latest
A POEM written in tribute to war horses by a First World War soldier has been passed down through generations of a North-East family. An Appeal for the Horses was penned by Lance Corporal Francis Hedley, of the 7th Yorkshire Regiment, while stationed in France during...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Shildon
DOZENS of people turned out for Shildon’s Remembrance service yesterday. Parade marshall Kevin Stevens led the annual parade from the Dabble Duck Industrial Estate to the Redworth Road War Memorial at about 10.45am, where a service was held by Reverends Graham and...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Latest, People
Chris Lloyd reports on the men who won the ultimate award for bravery during the First World War: the Victoria Cross. 2nd Lt Donald Bell Green Howards Born: Harrogate, played football for Bishop Auckland and Newcastle United Awarded VC: July 5, 1915, at Contalmaison,...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Darlington, In Your Town, Latest, Middlesbrough, Redcar, Stockton
IT was a chance to get away from home at the height of summer, but for the 27 cadets who took part, it was anything but a holiday. TWENTY-SEVEN teenagers from 405 (Darlington), 1869 (Middlesbrough) and 2394 (East Cleveland) squadrons could have had little idea what...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Redcar
A CHURCH council has led the way in bringing the stories of WWI to life for the next generation and encouraging the whole community to get involved. Guisborough Parochial Church Council received £10,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a project based in St Nicholas...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Darlington, In Your Town, Latest
SCHOOL pupils paid tribute to those lost at war by launching an exhibition in their honour. Students from across Darlington commemorated the First World War by collaborating to create the exhibition, which opened at the Crown Street Library this evening (Thursday,...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Latest
Remembrance services across the North-East and North Yorkshire as the world marks 100 years since the First World War. DARLINGTON Saturday, November 8 WELBECK AVENUE: 5pm, usual service at St. Anne’s Church, special prayers will be said. Sunday, November 9...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stockton
A DAY of remembrance has given students on Teesside a glimpse of life during the first world war. Pupils at St Michael’s Academy, Billingham, took part in a host of events exploring the outbreak of the First World War, its impacts on the country and the significance...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Latest
JUDGING on a special competition to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War has taken place. Almost 700 young people from schools and cadet groups around the region entered The Northern Echo Schools’ Poetry Competition, creating poems...
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, Darlington, In Your Town, Latest
THE ancestors of young men who died in the First World War were able to find out more about their lives as part of a special family history event. Experts were on hand at the Centre for Local Studies, in Darlington’s Crown Street Library to guide people through...
by Chris Lloyd | Bishop Auckland, Centenary, In Your Town, Latest
AN historian has written a new book about the search for his uncle’s grave after he was killed in the Second World War. Lance Corporal John Thomas Saunders, of Bishop Auckland, died at a German prisoner of war camp at Lamsdorf, which is now in Poland. His nephew,...
