by Chris Lloyd | 1916 Centenary, Centenary, Harrogate, In Your Town, Latest, Ripon, War Stories, York
THE family of a soldier awarded the Victoria Cross for leading a counter-attack, against greatly superior numbers, during a key part of the Battle of the Somme have spoken of their pride after a memorial to honour him was unveiled in his home town. Numerous members of...
by Chris Lloyd | 1916 Centenary, Centenary
The battalions of the Durham Light Infantry paid heavily for its infamous assault on the Butte de Warlencourt, an ugly mound of land dubbed ‘that miniature Gibraltar’. Chris Lloyd counts the cost. THE tree-lined D929 runs dead straight through the flat fields on the...
by Chris Lloyd | 1916 Centenary, Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Northallerton, Richmond, Thirsk, War Stories
A Lottery-funded project has documented the story of the community hospitals of the First World War. Ashley Barnard reports. THE role of the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses throughout the First World War was vital, as swathes of injured men came back from the front...
by Chris Lloyd | 1916 Centenary, Centenary, Latest, War Stories
A Darlington historian has found the stories behind the names on a plaque to fallen First World War soldiers in one of the town’s churches. Chris Webber talked to him. FRANCIS LOVE TELFORD: just one more name on a plaque to the war dead in just another ordinary small...
by Chris Lloyd | 1916 Centenary, Centenary, Ferryhill, In Your Town, Latest, War Stories
YOUNGSTERS in County Durham are learning how the everyday lives of children their age were affected as the First World War raged in Western Europe a hundred years ago. As the men of the Durham Light Infantry laid down their lives in the fields of France, families on...
by Chris Lloyd | 1916 Centenary, Centenary, Latest
THEY died in their thousands and if they had failed in their objective millions of British people would have known severe hunger, even starvation; the war would have been lost and the history of the world would have been entirely different. Yet the 250,000 sailors of...
by Chris Lloyd | 1916 Centenary, Centenary, Latest
A GROUP of young people are looking into how life as a child in the First World War compares to living in the 21st Century. Investing in Children secured £9,900 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help with the new project, entitled “What happened to children whose...
