In Your Town | The North-East At War | Page 5

Some of the pupils from Wolsingham School at the Durham Light Infantry Museum in Durham. They will be going to France in July to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme

Wolsingham School pupils embark on project to commemorate the Battle of the Somme

The Northern Echo

The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle

Database of First World War soldiers now available at Barnard Castle museum

Katie Richardson

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

The 8th DLI: Sgt Teasdale is standing on the far right. Picture courtesy of Harry Moses

Darlington schoolmaster’s vivid narrative of life at the front

Chris Lloyd

A grave injustice corrected at last

Chris Lloyd

Tales of genial George, the postman who went to war

Jim McTaggart

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

The lasting First World War legacy of the Richmond Sixteen

Mark Foster

MAJOR PROJECT: A workshop focusing on Darlington’s role in the Great War will be held on Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Amateur historians invited to contribute to WWI project

Joanna Morris

An exhibition at the DLI Museum

Fate of prisoners of war revealed in talk at DLI museum

Tony Kearney

UNIQUE: The Fulwell Acoustic Mirror, which was built to help detect German airships following a series of Zeppelin raids on the North-East coastline during 1915 and 1916

Wartime architecture protected Sunderland from Zeppelin attacks

Gavin Engelbrecht

HUGE LOSSES: Members of the 4th Regiment Green Howards Credit: Green Howards Museum

Village marks centenary of soldiers being killed in shell attack

Stuart Minting

TRIBUTE: The poppies at Darlington's Head of Steam Museum Picture: STUART BOULTON

Darlington museum celebrates completion of WWI knitted poppy project

Alexa Copeland

MADE EARLIER: The Darlington shell shop staff, with examples of their work, and Westmoreland Street in the background. Picture courtesy of Darlington Centre for Local Studies. Picture courtesy of Darlington Centre for Local Studies

War was a game-changer for women

Chris Lloyd

The day the German navy rained 2,000 shells on North-East seaside towns

Chris Lloyd

TRANQUIL SCENE: The lighthouse and the Heugh battery at Hartlepool today

A slaughter of innocents that literally rocked the nation

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

First casualty of war

Chris Lloyd

A tragic and proud duty

Chris Lloyd

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Towns in the list below will continue to grow as we build content towards next year's centenary so check back soon.

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