In Your Town | The North-East At War | Page 10

Remembering the forgotten heroes of village orphanage who fought and died in war

Gavin Engelbrecht

Thrills on the high seas

Chris Lloyd

Town’s children remember in flowers those who fell in the First World War

Ana Guerra-Moore

Christmas Day truce football match forms centrepiece of day of First World War commemoration events

Graeme Hetherington

Teams to recreate iconic Christmas Day truce

Graeme Hetherington

Diary of Gunner George James: April 26 – May 16

Chris Lloyd

Great War exhibition draws in visitors from across the North

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Ropner’s little navy suffered terrible losses but Stockton survivor tells story

Chris Lloyd

First World War to be commemorated on stage in Sedgefield

The Northern Echo

ROPNER'S EMBLEM: The stained glass which came out of Coniscliffe Road, Darlington, and probably originated in the shipping company's offices in Hartlepool

Defence Minister plants a sunflower to pay tribute to First World War fallen

Graeme Hetherington

The nurses of the Voluntary Aid Detachment

Chris Lloyd

Grandad was a war hero

Chris Lloyd

Soldiers in the trenches during the First World War

Schools and history groups chart immense impact of war on North Yorkshire town

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The rise of Robert Ropner

Chris Lloyd

Match fit and ready to fight for their country

Chris Lloyd

ACTIVE GUNS: German soldiers fire their 77m field guns – the nortorious ‘Whizz Bangs’ George heard

Diary of Gunner George James: April 19 – 25, 1916

Chris Lloyd

BATTLE GROUND: One of the craters at St Eloi

Diary of Gunner George James: April 4 – 19, 1916

Chris Lloyd

A soldier, his spoon and his spouse

Chris Lloyd

Town prepares to mark outbreak of war centenary

Stuart Minting

£500,000 Lottery grant to help County Durham remember First World War

Mark Tallentire

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