Tyne & Wear | The North-East At War

SURVIVORS: Two of the SS Belgian Prince survivors who were helped by the Sailors' Society

Horrific deaths of seven North-East sailors, murdered by German who became Himmler’s henchman, remembered on 100th anniversary

Gavin Engelbrecht

Denied truth for 100 years – daughter of DLI soldier learns her father was wrongly shot at dawn as a coward

Gavin Engelbrecht

REMEMBERED: Sunderland Empire to screen the original 1916 documentary on the Battle of the Somme

Sunderland Empire to screen original Somme documentary to mark anniversary of battle

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

CURATOR: Amy Barker

Exhibition at Newcastle’s Hatton Gallery examines horrors of First World War

Gavin Engelbrecht

RE-INTERNMENT CEREMONY: Soldiers from 4 YORKS carry the body of an unknown soldier to his final resting place.

North-East soldier laid to rest one hundred years after death on battlefield of France

Joe Willis

A service will be held at Sunderland Minster for servicemen and civilians who gave their lives during the war

Homing pigeons to be released to mark anniversary of First World War

Tony Kearney

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