WOUNDED: Patients and nurses at County Hall, Northallerton

Angels of their patients

Ashley Barnard |
RESEARCH: The young people with some of their work about the care given to children

The innocents of war

Dani Walker |
ATTACK: British soldiers go over the top during the Battle of the Somme

When whistles blew there was no turning back

Tony Kearney | June 30, 2016
MISERABLE: In the second half of June, the Durham Pals endured relentless rain and mud as the preparations for the Battle of the Somme continued

‘You can do nothing but shiver and shrink’

Tony Kearney | June 18, 2016
The famous badge of the Durham Light Infantry.

Pals under shellfire day and night

Tony Kearney | June 11, 2016
WELL DRILLED: Australian soldiers take part in bayonet practice during the First World War

Pals train for Big Push

Tony Kearney | June 4, 2016
WALK OF THE BRAVE: Soldiers from the Wiltshire Regiment advance through the barbed wire during the Battle of the Somme

Battlefield grave for fallen

Tony Kearney | May 28, 2016
A £345,000 Lottery grant is to be used to preserve the graffiti left on the walls of the cells at Richmond Castle by the conscientious objectors

Fighting against the war

Chris Lloyd | May 27, 2016
TARGET: A Canadian field kitchen from September 1917. During the Durham Pals’ stay at Colincamps, German artillery scored a direct hit on D Company’s field kitchen, killing four horses and destroying the equipment

Under constant fire

Tony Kearney | May 21, 2016
The 18th Battalion trained in the use of carrier pigeons

Pigeons keep the Pals in touch

Tony Kearney | May 14, 2016
DEPRESSING: A New Zealand field hospital in the woods at Bus Les Artois, where the Durham Pals were billeted after their first taste of life in the trenches

Licking their wounds

Tony Kearney | May 7, 2016

A watery grave

Tony Kearney | April 30, 2016
FEARSOME: The explosion of the mine at Hawthorn Ridge on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The Durham Pals were stationed at Auchonvillers while the tunnels were being dug beneath Hawthorn Ridge

The woes of trench warfare

Tony Kearney | April 23, 2016
DEPRESSING: A New Zealand field hospital in the woods at Bus Les Artois, where the Durham Pals were billeted after their first taste of life in the trenches

Out of the trenches

Tony Kearney | April 16, 2016
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