In Your Town | The North-East At War | Page 14

WELL DONE: L-Cpl Arthur Dixon receives his DCM from Colonel Tress, in Ferryhill Market Place

Ferryhill soldier was people’s champion

Chris Lloyd

Front Street, Wheatley Hill

Website will tell the story of Wheatley Hill’s war

Gavin Engelbrecht

First World War soldiers lined up outside Westgate School in 1916

Westgate village hall officials hope readers can shed light on First World War photo

Jim McTaggart

The day Britain was bombed into waking up to war

Chris Lloyd

When death came out of the mist

Chris Lloyd

The day the clocks stopped

Chris Lloyd

RESTING PLACE: Pieter Vermote’s headstone stands alone in the old Winterton Hospital cemetery on the northern edge of Sedgefield

The corner of Sedgefield that’s forever Belgium

Chris Lloyd

The Fighting Bradfords

Chris Lloyd

The Rev Michael Gobbett, parish clerk Paul Gray, and Julie Hall, chairman of Bishop Middlemam Parish Council, beside the war memorial at St Michaels Church

Bishop Middleham War Memorial to be restored in time for WW1 centenary

Lizzie Anderson

Students taking part in ceremony at Menin Gate

Emily Flanagan

Project to mark First World War centenary to be launched in Masham

Mark Foster

John Gill Appleby

Tracing the life of a Hurworth schoolteacher

Chris Lloyd

Howden-le-Wear Local History Society aims to research the stories of all 30 men on its village's war memorial

Chance to find out more about ancestors who fought in First World War

Hannah Bryan

Engineers tackle one of England’s highest mountains to restore memorial

Janet Gleeson

George’s Day

Chris Lloyd

Stirring accounts of derring do, political killing

Chris Lloyd

Death from the skies

Chris Lloyd

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