Bishop Auckland | The North-East At War

VOLUNTEER: Youngest project member Neive Archer, 14, of Newton Aycliffe, attaches the last poppy to the display

Last poppy of 19,240 sewn onto striking remembrance display ahead of unveiling in West Cornforth, near Ferryhill

Flossie Mainwaring-Taylor

TRIBUTE: The unveiling of the Bradford memorial garden at Witton Park . The new metal statue is by Ray Lonsdale, the sculptor behind the giant Tommy memorial on the clifftop at Seaham Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT

Village history project will focus on the Fighting Bradfords

Dani Walker

GROUND-BREAKING: The special service last October to mark the start of the Bradford memorial garden. The completed garden will feature in Saturday's celebrations

The courage of Roland Boys Bradford enshrined in history

Chris Lloyd

Celebrating courageous exploits of the British Army’s youngest Victoria Cross recipient, one of the famous Fighting Bradfords

Chris Lloyd

Durham and Bishop Auckland suffered some of most losses in First World War, new research reveals

Katie Richardson

REMEMBERED: Pelton Fell Cenotaph and Memorial Gates have been listed as part of Historic England's pledge to add 2,500 to the register by 2018

More than 50 war memorials given listed status as part of centenary drive to protect future of commemorative sites

Flossie Mainwaring-Taylor

Play tells the tale of four brothers who went to war and wrote their names into history books

Viv Hardwick

REUNITED: (l-r) Norma and Brian Corner with long-lost relative Margaret Eason

Family reunited by old photograph of Somme casualty

Tony Kearney

HEADLINE GRABBER: From The Northern Echo of June 3, 1916 – the first report of the Battle of Jutland

The Evenwood lads who died at the Battle of Jutland 100 years ago

Chris Lloyd

A man holds up fragments of German shell in Hartlepool - such fragments were very soon afterwards being sold a souvenirs

Bishop Auckland suffers first taste of the horrors of war

Chris Lloyd

SEEING RED: Sarah Sharp, 13, and Chloe Toward, 13, paint a giant poppy. Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT

Lessons from 100 years ago shed light on First World War

Dani Walker

WAR POEM: A poem writtten by Maureen Blair's great uncle Francis Hedley has been discovered. Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT

Soldier’s poetic tribute to war horses

Joanna Morris

New book details search for First World War grave

Dani Walker

Match fit and ready to fight for their country

Chris Lloyd

Howden-le-Wear historians launch £8,000 research of First World War soldiers

Duncan Leatherdale

Extraordinary courage of First World War hero immortalised in bronze

Mark Foster

Tale of two soldiers who stood proudly in their communities

Chris Lloyd

The Fighting Bradfords

Chris Lloyd

George’s Day

Chris Lloyd

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