Diary of Gunner George James: Winter 1915-16
Over six months, The Northern Echo serialised a First World War diary which was kindly lent to us by John Tyson, of Eaglescliffe. The diary was written by Gunner...
Diary of Gunner George James: January 8 – 11, 1916
IN the second installment in Gunner George James’ diary, written 98 years ago, he has been withdrawn about 20 miles from the frontline at Ypres. Gunner James, aged...
Diary of Gunner George James: January 20 – 27, 1916
IN the faintest pencil amid the mud of the trenches around Ypres, Gunner George James wrote a diary which is now in the loving hands of his niece, Isabel Field....
Diary of Gunner George James: February 5 – 22, 1916
IN the faintest pencil amid the mud of the trenches around Ypres, Gunner George James writes his latest observations and experiences into his war diary. FEBRUARY...
Diary of Gunner George James: March 6 – 13, 1916
Since Christmas, Memories has been serialising the First World War diary of Gunner George James, a miner from the Durham pit village of Littletown. We are...
Diary of Gunner George James: March 31 – April 4, 1916
THIS is the latest excerpt of Gunner George James’ Diary, written exactly 98 years ago on the Western Front, by a Durham miner. George had grown up in the small...
Diary of Gunner George James: April 4 – 19, 1916
NINETY-EIGHT years ago, our diarist, Gunner George James, was in the midst of one of the muddiest encounters of the First World War. At 4.15am, on March 27, 1916,...
Diary of Gunner George James: April 19 – 25, 1916
GUNNER George James spent Easter 1916 in the trenches near Ypres, but his mind was on the traditional ceremonies that he knew would be unfolding in the Methodist...
Diary of Gunner George James: April 26 – May 16
IN Memories 175, we left Gunner George James enduring heavy shellfire in the trenches near Ypres, in 1916. George, a miner from Littletown, near Durham City, was...
Diary of Gunner George James: June 22 – 26
NINETY-EIGHT years ago this week, Gunner George James was in the trenches near Albert, in northern France, writing his diary. We’ve been following it since the...
Diary of Gunner George James: June 24 – July 3
AT 7.30am on July 1, 1916, the guns stopped, the mines exploded, the whistles blew and the British soldiers climbed up out of their trenches and walked into no...