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TRIBUTE: The family of Sidney Wheelhouse watched Bishop Auckland v Shildon as part of a celebration in his name. Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT

Footballer killed in the Somme remembered at Northern League match

August 30, 2016

A team of knitters have begun making thousands of poppies to be ready for Armistice Day. They are pictured at Nunthorpe Railway Station in Middlesbrough, fronted by Sophie Marshall (6) and Iris McGlynn (5). Picture: CHRIS BOOTH

Knitted poppy tribute to fallen is on track

August 23, 2016

Promising composer and lifelong steelworker killed in Somme trenches 100 years ago

August 9, 2016

Relative sheds light on fate of two men captured in rare photograph as they made their to the Somme

July 5, 2016

UNKNOWN SOLDIERS: Some of the pictures of mystery DLI soldiers taken during the Battle of the Somme. Photograph courtesy of John Lichfield, Alfred Dupire, Bernard Gardin, Dominique Zanardi and Joel Scribe

Bid to trace unknown soldiers of the Durham Light Infantry

June 30, 2016

CENTENARY: Beamish Museum marks centenary of the Battle of the Somme.

Beamish Museum to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme

REUNITED: (l-r) Norma and Brian Corner with long-lost relative Margaret Eason

Family reunited by old photograph of Somme casualty

June 29, 2016

Wolsingham School Pupils Aube Bailly, Phoebe Thompson, Sam Cooper and his brother Nic Cooper, who are going to the Somme. Picture: TOM BANKS

A hundred County Durham children to take part in special Somme centenary service

June 27, 2016

HEADLINE GRABBER: From The Northern Echo of June 3, 1916 – the first report of the Battle of Jutland

The Evenwood lads who died at the Battle of Jutland 100 years ago

June 1, 2016

Robin McDermott with the new book

New book recalls the First World War bombardment of the coast

May 23, 2016

Graffiti revealing often-forgotten chapter of the First World War to be preserved

May 13, 2016

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

February 16, 2016

The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle

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

February 14, 2016

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

November 4, 2015

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

August 3, 2015

REMEMBER: Services will be held across the region to remember the war dead

Fire stations across the region to mark First World War centenary

June 24, 2015

The lasting First World War legacy of the Richmond Sixteen

June 22, 2015

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

An exhibition at the DLI Museum

Fate of prisoners of war revealed in talk at DLI museum

June 16, 2015

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

June 10, 2015

In Veterans' Stories...

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

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