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If you have any questions or would like to contribute to our centenary content, please get in touch by emailing chris.lloyd@nne.co.uk
DLI SOMME DIARY
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Tony Kearney tells what the Durham Pals - volunteer soldiers from across the region - were doing 100 years ago, in the build-up to their date with destiny: July 1, 1916, and the Battle of the Somme.
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INTERACTIVE WW1 JOURNEY THROUGH NORTHERN ECHO ARCHIVES
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Nick Gullon has been through The Northern Echo archives, selecting a story from each day of 1915, painting a vivid of picture of what life was like on the home front as well as in the trenches, and creating an interactive journey through the war years.
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SEARCH DATABASE OF SOLDIER RECORDS
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Search our database of over 1,800 soldiers from the region who fought and died in the First World War.
Find out more here
Find out more here
SCHOOLS' POETRY COMPETITION
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In 2014, we appealed to all secondary schools in the region to ask their pupils to write a poem to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.
Read their poems here
Read their poems here
HELP RAISE £100,000 FOR OUR HEROES
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An appeal to raise £100,000 for the modern military heroes - those servicemen and women who return physically and mentally injured from war zones such as Afghanistan.
Find out more here
Find out more here
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Ray Lonsdale soldier statue to be installed on Tursdale memorial this year
Catherine Priestley![](http://www.thenortheastatwar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/imgID1381246361-300x220.jpg)
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![SURVIVORS: Two of the SS Belgian Prince survivors who were helped by the Sailors' Society](http://www.thenortheastatwar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/imgID119712122-300x220.jpg)
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![Bowburn Knit and Natter Group's Elizabeth Taylor, Hilary Mason, Joyce Garner, Jean Shields, the group contributed more than 600 poppies](http://www.thenortheastatwar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/imgID114268913-300x220.jpg)
A poppy for each County Durham soldier who fell in WWI
Catherine Priestley![Tom Dresser, sculptor Brian Alabaster, Rita Dresser, Brian Dresser, Middlesbrough Deputy Mayor Charlie Rooney, Paul Dresser](http://www.thenortheastatwar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/51-300x220.jpg)
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