Centenary | The North-East At War | Page 2

REMEMBERED: Pelton Fell Cenotaph and Memorial Gates have been listed as part of Historic England's pledge to add 2,500 to the register by 2018

More than 50 war memorials given listed status as part of centenary drive to protect future of commemorative sites

November 11, 2016

Postcards home from an Easington miner to his Chilton wife

November 10, 2016

Examining the collection of weaponry held at Sevenhills in Spennymoor

Never before seen artifacts of the Durham Light Infantry to go on show

November 8, 2016

OUTSTANDING: The Fighting Bradfords at the Gala Theatre in Durham

How Durham remembered the sacrifice of the brave men who fought for our freedom

PROUD: The relatives of Archie White VC who attended the ceremony Pictures: Tom Wharton Photos

Family’s pride at memorial honouring VC winner Archie White

TO THE TOP: A sketch by Capt Robert Mauchley entitled "Attacking the Butte de Warlencourt"

DLI paid heavily for infamous assault to take ugly mound dubbed ‘that miniature Gibraltar’

November 7, 2016

WOUNDED: Patients and nurses at County Hall, Northallerton

Angels of their patients

A plaque, once screwed onto a wall at Eastbourne Methodist Church and now rededicated at St Herbert’s Anglican Church, containing the names of 15 men from east Darlington who died in the First World War. Picture: CHRIS BOOTH

Stories behind the names enshrined on a Darlington plaque to the fallen

STALLS: Children from local schools set up WW1 food stalls in Durham Market Place as part of Durham Farmers' Market Pictured Jackson Stevenson, Regan Bowman, and Robyn Pipe, from Easington Colliery Primary School. Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT

Children learn about life for their counterparts 100 years ago as war raged in Western Europe

WATERY GRAVE: The sinking of an unknown Merchant Navy ship .Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum and Martin Spaldin

Remembering the 250,000 forgotten heroes of the British Mercantile Marine

November 6, 2016

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

The innocents of war

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

October 26, 2016

Remembering the Yorkshire Regiment’s Pte John Sedman – after 99 years

Prayer book that stopped German bayonet being thrust into Somme hero’s chest is donated to DLI collection

September 27, 2016

The unveiling by left to right Coun Edward Bell, chairman of DCC, Hon Col James Ramsbotham, Honorary Colonel James Ramsbotham, chairman of the DLI trustees, Laurent Somon, leader of the Somme regional council, Max Potie, mayor of Thiepval

Sacrifice of the Durham Pals is marked at The Somme 100 years on

September 19, 2016

A Mark 1 tank in Chimpanzee Valley at the Battle of Flers Courcelette prior to the attack on September 15, 1916

The 405 heroes of the Durham Light Infantry who died on the regiment’s bloodiest day of the Somme

September 16, 2016

Service planned for farmer’s son turned war hero who was killed in Battle of the Somme

September 15, 2016

Service for the real life ‘Saving Private Ryan’ who was brought home after his five brothers were killed on the Front

September 14, 2016

The Earl and Countess of Feversham with officers, NCOs and men who enlisted in the 21st King's Royal Rifles Corps from Helmsley, before they left for active service in May 1916

Service for courageous Earl of Feversham who fell to German gunfire as he stood to rally his men

September 8, 2016

Play tells the tale of four brothers who went to war and wrote their names into history books

September 1, 2016

In Veterans' Stories...

OFF TO SEA: Sunderland-built HMS Opal, which sank 100 years ago

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