The people of the North-East of England played a priceless role in the Great War. Use the pins on the map below to find out more about veterans from your area as over this centenary year we tell their stories.

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Lieutenant John Gill Appleby: 54.487064, -1.525452
Major Edward Lyall: 54.473714, -1.644340
John Worstenholm: 54.534277, -1.513249
Harold Easby: 54.532884, -1.620946
Thomas, George, James & Roland Bradford: 54.664521, -1.730191
Sergeant Edward Cooper: 54.571336, -1.293527
Private Edward Smith: 54.542103, -1.549321
Corporal Albert Swannell: 54.542057, -1.549184
Sergeant Harold Ellerby: 54.542370, -1.550402
Private Frederick Porter: 54.542866, -1.552450
Private Charles Chapman: 54.542959, -1.552822
Guardsman William Kay: 54.542666, -1.551633
Private George Bowes: 54.542701, -1.551778
Lance Corporal Ernest Allen: 54.543133, -1.553523
Private James Tailford: 54.542824, -1.552345
Private Herbert Bloomer: 54.542892, -1.552656
Sapper Harold Moutrey: 54.543085, -1.553444
Private Lawrence Harrison: 54.543191, -1.553712
Sergeant Percy Foster: 54.543248, -1.553987
Lance Corporal Arthur Dixon: 54.687350, -1.562309
2nd Lieutenant Joseph Booth: 54.518946, -1.549523
Second Lieutenant Joseph Pease: 54.563122, -1.720484
Lance Corporal Alix Oliffe Liddle: 54.522009, -1.578059
Rifleman Edward Roberts: 54.675587, -1.597025
Gunner George James: 54.784051, -1.474042
Private Walter Rogers: 54.653281, -1.677869
Gunner John Alderson Scott: 54.436608, -2.029211
Lieutenant J Norman Procter: 54.022228, -2.047636
Private Joseph Weston: 54.686807, -1.548545
Private Allan Yates: 54.536123, -1.562065
Private Edward Henry Pratt: 54.596819, -1.564281
Third Engineer Algernon Wilkinson: 54.566382, -1.316572
Corporal Stanley Clarkson: 54.569466, -1.983072
Lance Sergeant Thomas Kenny VC: 54.749065, -1.416916
Private George Walton: 54.624030, -2.081570
Private Walter Galloway: 54.739000, -1.465000
Private Herbert Grainger: 54.633022, -1.656829
Privates Thomas & Wilfred Wake: 55.608960, -1.709900
Sergeant Reg Park: 54.532275, -1.552576
Michael Joseph Lowery and James McKeown: 54.733765, -1.522667
George Thorn: 54.570521, -1.980447
Sergeant John Teasdale: 54.522215, -1.534124

Edward Lyall

Darlington