Durham | The North-East At War | Page 2

TARGET: A Canadian field kitchen from September 1917. During the Durham Pals’ stay at Colincamps, German artillery scored a direct hit on D Company’s field kitchen, killing four horses and destroying the equipment

Under constant fire

Tony Kearney

The 18th Battalion trained in the use of carrier pigeons

Pigeons keep the Pals in touch

Tony Kearney

DEPRESSING: A New Zealand field hospital in the woods at Bus Les Artois, where the Durham Pals were billeted after their first taste of life in the trenches

Licking their wounds

Tony Kearney

A watery grave

Tony Kearney

FEARSOME: The explosion of the mine at Hawthorn Ridge on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The Durham Pals were stationed at Auchonvillers while the tunnels were being dug beneath Hawthorn Ridge

The woes of trench warfare

Tony Kearney

DEPRESSING: A New Zealand field hospital in the woods at Bus Les Artois, where the Durham Pals were billeted after their first taste of life in the trenches

Out of the trenches

Tony Kearney

RESPITE: Soldiers get refreshments from a mobile stall at Auchonvillers during the Battle of the Somme

Basking at ‘Ocean Villas’ dodging sniper bullets

Tony Kearney

ON THE FRONTLINE: Men of the New Zealand army manning an artillery position in Beaussart in 1918. During a German bombing raid on British artillery in the same village two years earlier, Private Arthur Armstrong of Crook became 18DLI’s first casualty on foreign soil

Durham Pals suffer first casualty on foreign soil

Tony Kearney

AT EASE: Soldiers from the Royal Warwickshire Regiment resting up during the Battle of the Somme

From sand to snow for Durham Pals

Tony Kearney

The 18th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry arrived in Port Remy on the banks of the River Somme in the early hours of March 14, 1916 on a bitterly cold night before marching through the town to their billets

To Somme by cattle truck

Tony Kearney

Tears during the service of dedication at Wheatley Hill Cemetery.

DLI First World War Victoria Cross hero Thomas Kenny honoured by home village of Wheatley Hill, 100 years on

Mark Tallentire

Wheatley Hill miner awarded Durham Light Infantry’s first Victoria Cross of Great War was just ‘doing his duty’

Chris Lloyd

LEFT BEHIND: Eliza and Michael Lowery junior, the son his father never saw, outside their home in Clarence Street shortly after the end of the war

Bowburn: A village of widows and spinsters

Tony Kearney

An exhibition at the DLI Museum

Fate of prisoners of war revealed in talk at DLI museum

Tony Kearney

ON THE MARCH: 18th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry on a route march in County Durham during training at the end of 1914. Picture: Durham Record Office DRO: D/DLI 2/18/24(25)

County’s pride at playing part in war effort

Chris Lloyd

IN MEMORY: The war memorial in Sherburn Village

Sherburn makes additions to its war memorial for centenary

Mark Summers

Third time unlucky for Cassop soldier

Chris Lloyd

FIRST SHOTS: Belmont to commemorate outbreak of war

Belmont residents organise four-year programme of activities to commemorate centenary

Tony Kearney

Diary of Gunner George James: June 24 – July 3

Chris Lloyd

Diary of Gunner George James: June 22 – 26

Chris Lloyd

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