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Durham Light Infantry Records – Battalions, Phase 2 records
| id | title id | ref | sorting number | level | title | type | category | covering dates | access | item physical | item accession no | item image | description | |
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| D/DLI 2/1 | RECORDS OF SERVICE OF 1ST BATTALION | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI | Durham Light Infantry Records | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/817 | Battalion histories and scrapbooks | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/817 | 1 file | File of notes by Harry Moses, for his book The Durhams in Korea, compiled c.1985 – 1993 Includes copies of sketch plans and photographs | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/818-819 | 1st Battalion, 1919 – 1939 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/818 | 1 volume, printed, cloth bound | Standing Orders of The Durham Light Infantry with a short record of the First and Second Battalions, Aldershot 1934 Copy belonging to Corporal Thomas Scott, ‘D’ Company, 1st Battalion, Shanghai, China, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/819 | 1 paper, card mounted | Biographical notes to accompany a replica silhouette of Richard Williams, M.D. (1788 – 1847) surgeon of the 68th Durham Light Infantry, which was copied in April 1924, at Montreal, from the original silhouette made in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, c. 1832, and presented to Lieutenant-Colonel A.E. Irvine and the officers of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry by William George Hinds, the grandson, by paternal and maternal descent, of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Williams, M.D., and Lieutenant and Adjutant John Hinds, Montreal, Canada, 24 May 1924 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/820-822 | 1st Battalion, Borneo, 1965 – 1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/820 | 1 paper, duplicated | Diagram showing the organisation of the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry during operations in Borneo, 1965 – 1966, by Colonel M.D.C. McBain, n.d. [1996] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/821 | 1 paper, duplicated | Diagram of the camp layout at Nibong, Borneo, 1965 – 1966, by Colonel M.D.C. McBain, n.d. [1996] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/822 | 1 paper, duplicated | Diagram of the platoon ambush in Borneo, 1966, by Colonel M.D.C. McBain, n.d. [1996] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/823-829 | RECORDS OF 1ST BATTALION OFFICERS’ MESS | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/823 | 1 booklet, printed | Rules of the Officers’ Mess of The Durham Light Infantry, 1912 Copy belonging to J.O.C. Hasted, 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/824 | 1 volume, leather bound | Minute book of the 1st Battalion Officers’ Mess meetings, 5 May 1954 – 27 November 1968 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/825 | 1 volume, leather bound | Visitors’ book of the 1st Battalion Officers’ Mess, 31 March 1953 – 21 April 1969 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/826 | 1 volume, leather half-bound | Officers’ leave book of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, 1 December 1958 – 16 April 1969 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/827 | 1 volume, leather half-bound | Warning – out book of the 1st Battalion Officers’ Mess, 17 May – 27 February 1969 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/828 | 1 volume, leather half-bound | Bridge account book of the 1st Battalion Officers’ Mess, 1 April 1917 – 18 March 1967 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/829 | 1 volume, leather bound, lacking front cover | Game book of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, 2 September 1882 – 27 March 1955 Given to the Officers’ Mess, 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, by F.G. Kenyon-Slaney and H.P. O’Callaghan | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/830 | RECORDS OF 1ST BATTALION SERGEANTS’ MESS | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/830 | 1 volume, cloth bound | Minute book of the 1st Battalion Sergeants’ Mess meetings, 9 January 1967 – 21 November 1968 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/831-833 | COLOURS OF THE 1ST BATTALION | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/831 | 1 photograph, 17 cm. x 21 cm., black and white, mounted on paper | Photograph of the laying-up of colours ceremony of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions, The Durham Light Infantry, captioned: ‘Lord Durham, Lord Lieutenant of the County, handing over a wreath to Archdeacon Watkins’ beside the South African war memorial, Palace Green, Durham, 24 October 1912 Originally enclosed in D/DLI 1/5/1 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/832 | 1 paper, printed | Notes describing the procedure at The Durham Light Infantry colour ceremony [the presentation of the King’s Colours by the Earl of Durham] at Durham on 11 November 1920, and the design for a King’s Colour, n.d. [November 1920] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/833 | 1 print, 14 cm. x 21 cm., colour, and 1 paper | Artistic representation of the colours presented to the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry in Dortmund, West Germany, on 23 July 1949; copy made 2004 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/834 | BAND AND BUGLES OF 1ST BATTALION | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/834 | 2 papers, duplicated | Photocopy of the band programme of the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 29 January 1954 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/835 | SPORTING ACTIVITIES OF 1ST BATTALION | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/835 | 1 paper | Programme of a United Services Football (Egypt) Association match between the Army Cup Winners (1 Durham Light Infantry) and the R.A.F. Cup Winners (R.A.F. Abu Sueir) at the Old Vic Lido Stadium, Fayid, Egypt, 13 March 1955 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/836-840(38) | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS OF 1ST BATTALION | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/836 | Photograph album of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry’s Officers’ Mess, containing photographs of the battalion colours and silver, n.d. [20th c.] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/836(1) | Photograph of the colours of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [20th c.] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/836(2) | Photograph of silverware belonging to the Officers’ Mess of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [20th c.] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/836(3) | Photograph of silver trays belonging to the Officers’ Mess of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [20th c.] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/836(4) | Photograph of silver trophies belonging to the Officers’ Mess of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [20th c.] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/836(5) | Photograph of silver trophies belonging to the Officers’ Mess of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [20th c.] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/836(6) | Photograph of a silver goblet belonging to the Officers’ Mess of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [20th c.] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/836(7) | Photograph of a front view of four silver figurines, depicting soldiers blowing bugles, presented to the 68th Light Infantry by Colonel Harrison Trent, General Lord William Paulet, Colonel H.S. Fitzgerald, and Lieutenant-Colonel H.H.S. Morant respectively, n.d. [20th c.] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/836(8) | Photograph of a rear view of four silver statuettes, depicting soldiers blowing bugles, presented to the 68th Light Infantry by Colonel Harrison Trent, General Lord William Paulet, Colonel H.S. Fitzgerald, and Lieutenant-Colonel H.H.S. Morant respectively, n.d. [20th c.] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/836(9) | Photograph of silver candelabra belonging to the Officers’ Mess of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [20th c.] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/836(10) | Photograph of silverware belonging to the Officers’ Mess of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [20th c.] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/836(11) | Photograph of silverware belonging to the Officers’ Mess of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [20th c.] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/836(12) | Photograph of silverware belonging to the Officers’ Mess of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [20th c.] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/836(13) | Photograph of four cases of medals belonging to the Officers’ Mess of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [20th c.] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/836(14) | 1 volume, cloth bound | Photograph of four cases of medals and plates belonging to the Officers’ Mess of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [20th c.] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/837 | Photographs originally enclosed in D/DLI 2/1/836: | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/837(1) | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 16 cm., black and white | Photograph of two silver trophies presented to the 1st and 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, by John G. Murray, n.d. [20th c.] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/837(2) | 1 photograph, 29 cm. x 18 cm., black and white | Photograph of two silver breastplates, n.d. [20th c.] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/837(3) | 1 photograph, 8 cm. x 6 cm., black and white | Photograph of an exterior view of the Officers’ Mess of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, taken at Catterick, Yorkshire, 1931 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/837(4) | 1 photograph, 6 cm. x 8 cm., black and white | Photograph of a soldier standing beside a luncheon table in the Officers’ Mess of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, taken at Catterick, Yorkshire, c.1931 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/837(5) | 1 photograph, 6 cm. x 8 cm., black and white | Photograph of a display of silverware at the Officers’ Mess of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, taken at Catterick, Yorkshire, c.1931 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/837(6) | 1 photograph, 6 cm. x 8 cm., black and white | Photograph of a display of silverware at the Officers’ Mess of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, taken at Catterick, Yorkshire, c.1931 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/837(7) | 1 photograph, 8 cm. x 6 cm., black and white | Photograph of a table, set for dinner, at the Officers’ Mess of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, taken at Catterick, Yorkshire, c.1931 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/837(8) | 1 paper | Letter from J. Lauderdale, Andover, Hampshire, to Lieutenant-Colonel R.B. Humphreys, concerning the silver of the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry in 1936 – 1937, 17 August 1977 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838 | Photograph album and scrapbook of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, stationed in Germany and Hong Kong, 1963 – 1965 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(1) | Photograph of an exterior view of a nursing home, with a caption, in German, offering NewYear wishes to Bandmaster R.C.H. Berry and the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, on behalf of the residents of the StadtischenAltenheims Hottengrund [Hottengrund Old People’s Home], Kladow, Berlin, Germany, Christmas 1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(2) | Photograph of soldiers [possibly bandsmen] of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, relaxing in a mess hall, taken in Germany, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(3) | Photograph of soldiers [possibly bandsmen] of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, taking refreshment in a mess hall, taken in Germany, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(4) | Photograph of a group of soldiers [possibly bandsmen] of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, standing outside a concert hall, taken in Germany, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(5) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, marching into a stadium during an evening performance, taken in Germany, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(6) | Photograph of a bandmaster conducting the male voice choir of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, during a concert, taken in Germany, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(7) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, performing in a concert hall, taken in Germany, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(8) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, marching along a city street [possibly in Berlin], taken in Germany, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(9) | Photograph of a group of bandsmen from the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, relaxing in a mess hall, taken in Germany, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(10) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, marching past the ‘KaDeWe’ department store, taken in Berlin, Germany, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(11) | Newspaper cutting photograph, with a caption, in German, showing Bandmaster R.C.H. Berry, 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, giving a salute, taken in Berlin, Germany, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(12) | Newspaper cutting photograph, with a caption, in German, showing bandsmen marching along a crowded city street during a parade, taken in Berlin, Germany, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(13) | Photograph of bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, in rehearsal, taken in Germany, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(14) | Photograph of bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, socialising with civilians in a mess hall, taken in Germany, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(15) | Photograph of bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, in rehearsal, taken in Germany, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(16) | Photograph of a view of a military parade outside the Olympic Stadium, Berlin, taken in Germany, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(17) | Photograph of three bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, performing during a concert, taken in Germany, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(18) | Photograph of a view of a military parade outside the Olympic Stadium, Berlin, taken in Germany, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(19) | Newspaper cutting photograph, from the Berlin Bulletin, showing the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, performing for the residents of the Hottengrund Old People’s Home, Kladow, Berlin, taken in Germany, 29 March 1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(20) | Newspaper cutting photographs, from the Berlin Bulletin, showing, left, the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, giving a farewell performance at Hottengrund Old People’s Home, and, right, Bandmaster R.C.H. Berry receiving a souvenir from Burgomaster Adalbert Fehlow at Spandau Civic Hall, taken in Berlin, Germany, 21 June 1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(21) | Berlin Bulletin, volume 14, issue no. 12, 10 May 1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(22) | Group photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, with Lieutenant-Colonel Gil Maughan, centre, front row, Hong Kong, 1964 Includes: Sergeant Thompson, Sergeant-Major Berry, Major G.J. Maughan, Company Sergeant-Major Collins | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(23) | Newspaper cutting photograph of Bandmaster R.C.H. Berry, centre, front row, and the male voice choir of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, taken at the City Hall, Hong Kong, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(24) | Photograph of Bandmaster R.C.H. Berry, 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, in dress uniform, taken in Hong Kong, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(25) | Newspaper cutting, from the South China Sunday Post-Herald, concerning the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, and showing a photograph of Lance-Corporal ‘Kenny’ Janes playing a trumpet, taken at the Gun Club Barracks, Hong Kong, 6 October 1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(26) | Newspaper cutting photograph, from the South China Sunday Post-Herald, showing Sergeant of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, playing a trombone, taken at the Gun Club Barracks, Hong Kong, 6 October 1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(27) | Newspaper cutting photograph, from the South China Sunday Post-Herald, showing the male voice choir of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, in rehearsal, taken at the Gun Club Barracks, Hong Kong, 6 October 1963 Left to right: Bandsman ‘Eddy’ Bell, Bandsman ‘Bill’ Cuthbert, Lance-Corporal Albert Jessup, Bandsman Adam Smith, Bandsman Alan Turner, Corporal ‘Tony’ King, Bandsman ‘Ken’ Lawson, Bandsman ‘Eddy’ Stylianiou | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(28) | Newspaper cutting photograph, from the South China Sunday Post-Herald, showing Bandsman ‘Eddy’ Bell, 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, playing a French horn, taken at the Gun Club Barracks, Hong Kong, 6 October 1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(29) | Newspaper cutting photograph, from the South China Sunday Post-Herald, of the trumpet section of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, in rehearsal, taken at the Gun Club Barracks, Hong Kong, 6 October 1963 Left to right: Corporal ‘Jimmy’ Towns, Bandsman George Moyer, Bandsman ‘Bill’ Cuthbert, Lance-Corporal ‘Kenny’ Janes | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(30) | Newspaper cutting photograph, from the South China Sunday Post-Herald, showing Bandmaster R.C.H. Berry, 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, conducting a rehearsal, taken at the Gun Club Barracks, Hong Kong, 6 October 1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(31) | Newspaper cutting concerning the ‘close friendship’ between the bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, and the pupils of the Hong Kong Music Training Centre for the Blind, with a photograph of bandsmen playing to pupils at the Centre, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(32) | Newspaper cutting concerning the relationship between the bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, and the pupils of the Hong Kong Music Training Centre for the Blind, 17 November 1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(33) | Newspaper cutting of a letter, from Andrew Fraser, Honorary Secretary of the Hong Kong Music Training Centre for the Blind, offering thanks to The Durham Light Infantry ‘for their wonderful help’, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(34) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, playing to a group of children in a hall [possibly at the Hong Kong Music Training Centre for the Blind], c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(35) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, playing to a group of children in a hall [possibly at the Hong Kong Music Training Centre for the Blind], c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(36) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, playing to a group of children in a hall [possibly at the Hong Kong Music Training Centre for the Blind], c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(37) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, playing to a group of children in a hall [possibly at the Hong Kong Music Training Centre for the Blind], c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(38) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, playing to a group of children in a hall [possibly at the Hong Kong Music Training Centre for the Blind], c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(39) | Newspaper cutting photograph showing Bandmaster R.C.H. Berry conducting the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, taken at the City Hall, Hong Kong, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(40) | Newspaper cutting, in Chinese, showing a photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, providing accompaniment to a schoolgirls’ choir, taken in Hong Kong, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(41) | Newspaper cutting photograph showing three bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, rehearsing for a concert, taken in Hong Kong, c.1963 Left to right: Bandsman John Bell, Bandsman ‘Bill’ Orr, Corporal Walter Woods | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(42) | Newspaper cutting photograph showing the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, performing at the City Hall, Hong Kong, dated 2 December 1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(43) | Newspaper cutting concerning a concert by Shirley Bassey, with a guest appearance by the dance band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, at the City Hall, Hong Kong, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(44) | Newspaper cutting concerning Shirley Bassey’s first visit to the Far East, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(45) | Newspaper cutting concerning the dance band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, performing as guest artists during Shirley Bassey’s concerts in Hong Kong, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(46) | Newspaper cutting concerning the role of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, during a parade for the Queen’s birthday at Hong Kong, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(47) | Photograph of a soldier standing beside some bushes, taken in Hong Kong, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(48) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, marching across a square [possibly during a parade for the Queen’s birthday], taken in Hong Kong, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(49) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, on parade on sports field [possibly for the Queen’s birthday], taken at Hong Kong, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(50) | Photograph of bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, on parade on a sports field [possibly for the Queen’s birthday], taken at Hong Kong, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(51) | Photograph of bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, marching across a sports field during a parade [possibly for the Queen’s birthday], taken at Hong Kong, c.1963 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(52) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, on parade [possibly at Pusan, Korea], c.1965 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(53) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, on parade for the unveiling ceremony of the Pusan Memorial, taken in Korea, June 1965 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(54) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, on parade for the unveiling ceremony of the Pusan Memorial, taken in Korea, June 1965 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(55) | Photograph of soldiers from a Scottish regiment preparing to place wreaths at the Pusan Memorial, taken in Korea, June 1965 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(56) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, with bandsmen from a Scottish regiment, on parade during the unveiling ceremony of the Pusan Memorial, taken in Korea, June 1965 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(57) | Photograph of a senior officer, and two men in civilian dress, looking at gravestones in Pusan Cemetery, taken in Korea, June 1965 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(58) | Photograph of a view of the Pusan Memorial, taken in Korea, June 1965 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(59) | Photograph of clergymen conducting the unveiling ceremony of the Pusan Memorial, taken in Korea, June 1965 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(60) | Photograph of a senior officer arriving for an unveiling ceremony, taken at Pusan, Korea, June 1965 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(61) | Photograph of a view of clergymen conducting the unveiling ceremony of the Pusan Memorial, taken in Korea, June 1965 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(62) | Photograph of a senior officer receiving a guard of honour during the unveiling of the Pusan Memorial, taken in Korea, June 1965 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(63) | Newspaper cutting concerning the incorporation of ‘beat music’ into services at Christ Church, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, c.1965 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(64) | Photograph of Bandmaster R.C.H. Berry, third right, holding a souvenir flag given by Christ Church, Kowloon Tong, as members of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry [and possibly the Reverend R.C. Symington, right], look on, taken in Hong Kong, 1965 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(65) | Newspaper cutting concerning the departure of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, from Hong Kong, showing a photograph of a sergeant lowering the colours as the battalion band sound the retreat, taken at the Gun Club Barracks, Hong Kong, 1965 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(66) | Newspaper cutting concerning a concert by the bands of the 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers, the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, and the Hong Kong Police, at the City Hall, Hong Kong, August 1965 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/838(67) | 1 album, spiral bound | Poster advertising a concert by the bands of the 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers, the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, and the Hong Kong Police, at the City Hall, Hong Kong, 25 August 1965, including photographs of the band conductors Left to right: O.R. Whiting, 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers, R.A. Spencer, Hong Kong Police, R.C.H. Berry, 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/839 | Photographs originally enclosed in D/DLI 2/1/838: | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/839(1) | 1 photograph, 23 cm. x 16 cm., black and white | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, performing during a parade [possibly at Hong Kong], c.1963 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/839(2) | 1 photograph, 23 cm. x 16 cm., black and white | Photograph of Bandmaster R.C.H. Berry conducting bandsmen of 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, during a concert [possibly in Hong Kong], c.1963 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/839(3) | 1 photograph, 16 cm. x 23 cm., black and white | Photograph of a bandsman of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, playing a tuba during a concert [possibly in Hong Kong], c.1963 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/839(4) | 1 photograph, 16 cm. x 23 cm., black and white | Photograph of bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, playing saxophones during a concert [possibly in Hong Kong], c.1963 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/839(5) | 1 photograph, 16 cm. x 23 cm., black and white | Photograph of two bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, playing a flute and a clarinet during a concert [possibly in Hong Kong], c.1963 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840 | Photograph album and scrapbook of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, stationed in the U.K. and Cyprus, 1966 – n.d. [1968] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(1) | Photograph of a view of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, marching through a shopping precinct, taken at Newton Aycliffe, 1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(2) | Photograph of a group of bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, socialising around a table of drinks, taken at the Companions’ Club, Sunderland, 23 March 1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(3) | Newspaper cutting concerning the appearance of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, at the Darlington Show, 1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(4) | Newspaper cutting concerning an open-air concert, by the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, at Newton Aycliffe, 1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(5) | Newspaper cutting photograph showing members of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, sitting with members of the Companions’ Club, Sunderland, 23 March 1966 Left to right: G. Duckett, Bandmaster R.C.H. Berry, H. Armstrong, Captain Grannum, Colour-Sergeant Thompson | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(6) | Newspaper cutting concerning the disintegration of an opal ring during a concert at R.A.F. Lindholme, Darlington, c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(7) | Newspaper cutting photograph showing the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, on parade behind a line of juvenile ‘jazz’ band majorettes [possibly in Essex], 2 September 1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(8) | Group photograph of bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry [possibly taken at Colchester, Essex], c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(9) | Group photograph of bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry [possibly taken at Colchester, Essex], c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(10) | Group photograph of bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry [possibly taken at Colchester, Essex], c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(11) | Group photograph of bandleaders of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, including Bandmaster R.C.H. Berry, third left [possibly taken at Colchester, Essex], c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(12) | Newspaper cutting, from the Northern Daily Mail, showing a photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, sounding the retreat in High Street, Hartlepool, and featuring a letter, from Mrs T.M. Mole, concerning the demise of brass bands, dated 29 September 1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(13) | Newspaper cutting photograph, from the Northern Daily Mail, showing Major McBain, The Durham Light Infantry, left, and the Mayor of Hartlepool, Councillor D. Waller, right, standing at the saluting base during the sounding of the retreat, by the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, at High Street, Hartlepool, 13 September 1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(14) | Newspaper cutting photograph, from the Northern Daily Mail, showing Bandmaster R.C.H. Berry conducting buglers of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, as they sound the retreat, taken at High Street, Hartlepool, 13 September 1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(15) | Newspaper cutting photograph, from the Northern Daily Mail, showing a bandsman of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, playing the tuba, taken at High Street, Hartlepool, 13 September 1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(16) | Newspaper cutting photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, giving a concert in Durham Market Place, c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(17) | Programme of a concert, by the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, at Durham Cathedral, c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(18) | Newspaper cutting concerning a concert, by the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, at Durham Cathedral, c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(19) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, marching down a road [possibly at Harlow, Essex], c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(20) | Newspaper cutting photograph showing ‘Carnival Queens with their Princesses and Attendants’, taken at The Three Horseshoes, Harlow, Essex, c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(21) | Photograph of Bandmaster R.C.H. Berry, 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, left, and a senior American officer, right [possibly taken at Colchester, Essex], c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(22) | Newspaper cutting photograph showing the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, marching past Hartlepool Town Hall, c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(23) | Photograph of bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, performing at the People’s Park, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(24) | Newspaper cutting concerning concerts, by the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, at Grimsby, and Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(25) | Photograph of bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, performing at the People’s Park, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(26) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, performing on the steps of a building as a crowd looks on, taken in the United Kingdom, c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(27) | Photograph of a view of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, leading a carnival procession past a building as crowds look on, taken in the United Kingdom, c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(28) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, performing on the steps of a building as a crowd looks on, taken in the United Kingdom, c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(29) | Photograph of a view of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, leading a carnival procession past a building as a crowd looks on, taken in the United Kingdom, c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(30) | Newspaper cutting photograph showing the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, leading a carnival procession as a crowd looks on, taken in the United Kingdom, c.1966 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(31) | Cartoon captioned ‘Corporal King’s Nightmare’, n.d. [1966 – 1968] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(32) | Christmas greetings card, endorsed To the Band of the Durham Light Infantry from Colchester Pensioners, n.d [1966 – 1968] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(33) | Photograph of bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, playing trumpets during a concert [possibly in Cyprus], c.1968 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(34) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, playing at an open-air concert, taken in Cyprus, c.1968 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(35) | Photograph of bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, playing trombones and trumpets during a concert [possibly in Cyprus], c.1968 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(36) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, playing at an open-air concert, taken in Cyprus, c.1968 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(37) | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, marching through a village as local people look on, taken in Cyprus, c.1968 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/840(38) | Photograph of bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, playing clarinets during a concert [possibly in Cyprus], c.1968 (1 album, spiral bound) PHOTOGRAPHS | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/841-844 | Copy illustrations concerning the 68th Regiment, later 68th Light Infantry | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/841 | 1 paper, 10 cm. x 15 cm., printed | Copy print of the painting of General John Lambton (1710 – 1794) by George Romney; copy made 20th c. | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/842 | 1 print, 25 cm. x 23 cm., colour, card mounted | Print of the uniforms of the 68th Regiment in 1760 and The Durham Light Infantry in 1915, and the regimental emblem, n.d. [ c.1918] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/843 | 1 card, colour printed | Christmas card of the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, including a print of a 68th Light Infantryman in uniform in 1836, n.d. [ c.1936] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/844 | 2 papers, colour printed | Illustration of ‘a parade of the 68th Durham Light Infantry in 1864’, showing the uniform and weapons of the period, reproduced from the National Army Museum in an unidentified publication, n.d. [20th c.] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/845-846 | 68th Light Infantry and 1st Battalion before 1899 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/845 | 1 photograph, 6 cm. x 10 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph of a small, dome-topped building with a projecting octagonal canopy, bearing the sign ‘The Bible Stand – Crystel [ sic ] Palace Sydenham’, and flying a flag bearing the words ‘La Parole de Dieu’; taken by Negretti and Zambra, photographers, Crystal Palace, Kent and Surrey, n.d. [ c.1854] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/846 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 27 cm., black and white | Photograph of a large silver cup with an ornate engraved design of elephants and other animals and birds, probably from India, n.d. [late 19th c.] This photograph is probably from the album D/DLI 2/1/266. The cup may have been presented to the officers of the 68th Light Infantry in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar) | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/847-852 | Photographs of the 1st Battalion, 1902 – 1919 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/847 | 1 photograph, 30 cm. x 25 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph of the ruins of The Residency, Lucknow, India, n.d. [c.1902] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/848 | 1 photograph, 29 cm. x 23 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph of the exterior wall of Agra Fort, India, n.d. [c.1902] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/849 | 1 photograph, 29 cm. x 23 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph of the Memorial Well, Cawnpore, India, n.d. [c.1902] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/850 | 1 photograph, 27 cm. x 15 cm., black and white | Photograph of officers of the 1st Battalion Secunderabad, India, 1904 duplicate of D/DLI 2/1/267(28) Back row: Lt. W.L. Palk; 2nd Lt. G.W.F. Philipps; Lt. R.S. Hamilton-Grace; Lt. A.W.B. Wallace; Lt. A.C.H. Garsia; 2nd Lt. P. St.J.R. Woodhouse; Lt. & Qr. Mr. J. Freel; 2nd Lt. W. James; Cpt. W. Northey, D.S.O.; Lt. A.H.M. Bowers; 2nd Lt. W.R. Hartcup; Lt. W.B. Greenwell Middle row: Cpt. & Ajt. C.L. Matthews; Cpt. R. Tyndall; Lt.Col. G.C.B. Mansel, D.S.O.; Bg.Gl. E.O.F. Hamilton, C.B.; Maj. L.C. Elwes, D.S.O.; Maj. W.T. Buck; Cpt. J.W. Jeffreys Front row: Lt. C.O. Rowlandson; Lt. J.G. Gillespie; Lt. A.F. Hartley; Lt. R.V. Turner; Lt. H. Richardson | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/851 | 1 photograph, 15 cm. x 10 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph of a colour party standing guard around the South African War Memorial, at the laying-up of colours of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions The Durham Light Infantry, Palace Green, Durham, 24 October 1912 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/852 | 1 photograph, 20 cm. x 19 cm., black and white | Photograph of a column of soldiers of the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry on a route march at Garial, India, 1914 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/853-861 | Photographs of the 1st Battalion, 1919 – 1939 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/853 | 1 photograph, 15 cm. x 11 cm., black and white | Photograph of a parade inspection of the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry at the Joan of Arc celebrations, Rouen, France, 20 July 1920 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/854 | 1 photograph, 18 cm. x 13 cm., black and white | Photograph of the first Armistice Day Parade, Cologne, Germany, 1920 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/855 | 1 photograph, 20 cm. x 15 cm., black and white | Photograph of officers of the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry arriving at Victoria Barracks, Belfast, Co. Antrim, January 1926 Left to right: [ ] M. Makeham; Captain Dryden; Colonel Irvine and Captain Lowe | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/856 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of four soldiers of the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, including Private Usher [not marked], n.d. [1920s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/857 | 1 photograph, 47 cm. x 16 cm., black and white | Photograph of the Garrison Cup cricket teams, The Durham Light Infantry v. The Prince of Wales Volunteers, 1933 The Durham Light Infantry won the Garrison Cup in 1932, 1933 and 1934 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/858 | 1 photograph, 28 cm. x 11 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph of the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry at the Silver Jubilee Royal Review by King George V, Rushmoor Arena, Aldershot, Hampshire, July 1935 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/859 | 1 photograph, 45 cm. x 33 cm., black and white, card mounted | Group photograph of an unidentified platoon, of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, Blackdown, Hampshire, 1936 Back row: Reed, Metcalfe, Nash, Clifford, Featherstone, Blanchard, unidentified, Higgins, Cooper Front row: Morris, Ball, Higgins, Corporal Dale, K.M.W. Leather, Lance-Corporal Beddowes, Hilton, Alderson, Hogarth | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/860 | 1 photograph, 20 cm. x 15 cm., black and white | Photograph of Bugle Major Mason and the band and bugles of the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, possibly at South Shields, n.d. [1930s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/861 | 1 photograph, 20 cm. x 15 cm., black and white | Photograph of Bugler Major Mason and the band and bugles of the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry marching along a cobbled street with tramlines, possibly at South Shields, n.d. [1930s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/862 | Photographs of the 1st Battalion, 1945 – 1952 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/862 | 1 photograph, 38 cm. x 30 cm., black and white | Photograph of the colour parties of the 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, marching past crowds outside Durham Castle, at the laying-up of colours ceremony, Palace Green, Durham City, 9 July 1950 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/863-864 | Photographs of the 1st Battalion, Korean War, 1952 – 1953 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/863 | 1 photograph print, 18 cm. x 13 cm., black and white | Copy photograph of thirteen men in camouflage dress, probably a Durham Light Infantry patrol, which went out to bring in two dead bodies, Korea, n.d. [1952 – 1953] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/864 | 1 paper | List of the soldiers in an unidentified mortar platoon which served in Korea in 1952 – 1953, n.d. [1990s] Originally enclosed with D/DLI 2/1/863 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/865-881 | Photographs of the 1st Battalion, 1965 – 1968 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/865 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 16 cm., black and white | Photograph of a major of the Royal Horse Artillery, Battery Commander, seated, and Privates Chris Lawton, Midge Douglas and [ ] Oliver, 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, taken during training in Cyprus, January 1968 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/866 | 1 photograph, 12 cm. x 8 cm., black and white | Photograph of two soldiers of the 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, possibly of ‘A’ Company, in a tented camp, under snow, Cyprus, n.d. [1968] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/867 | 1 photograph, 15 cm. x 8 cm., black and white | Photograph of Major-General Deane-Drummond and Sergeant Halliwell, 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, probably in Cyprus, n.d. [ c.1968] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/868 | 1 photograph, 7 cm. x 5 cm., black and white | Photograph of Private Wood, ‘B’ Company, 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, with Turkish Cypriot villagers, Cyprus, n.d. [1968] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/869 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 18 cm., black and white | Photograph of Lance-Corporal McCallum, ‘B’ Company, 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, taken during shooting practice in Cyprus, n.d. [1968] Similar to D/DLI 2/1/289(70) | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/870 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 16 cm., black and white | Photograph of two soldiers of The Durham Light Infantry, taken during shooting practice, probably in Cyprus, n.d. [ c.1968] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/871 | 1 photograph, 16 cm. x 21 cm., black and white | Photograph of Private Walsh and Lance-Corporal Mannion, Assault Pioneers, ‘B’ Company, 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [ c.1968] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/872 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 13 cm., black and white, and 1 paper | Photograph of Corporal Wardrobe and Corporal White, Assault Pioneers, ‘B’ Company, 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, building a bailey bridge with the Royal Engineers, n.d. [1968] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/873 | 1 photograph, 32 cm. x 24 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, and Colonel Gil Maughan, n.d. [1965 – 1968] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/874 | 1 photograph, 20 cm. x 15 cm., black and white | Photograph of unidentified military bandsmen, taken during rehearsal, n.d. [ c.1968] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/875 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 16 cm., black and white | Photograph of the band and bugles of The Durham Light Infantry on parade, Colchester, Essex, March 1968 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/876 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of General Sir G. Musson inspecting troops of the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Meeanee Barracks, Colchester, Essex, April 1968 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/877 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of General Sir G. Musson inspecting troops of the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Meeanee Barracks, Colchester, Essex, April 1968 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/878 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of General Sir G. Musson leaving the parade ground following inspection of the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Meeanee Barracks, Colchester, Essex, April 1968 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/879 | 1 photograph, 7 cm. x 10 cm., black and white | Photograph of an unidentified sergeant of The Durham Light Infantry holding a trophy shield, n.d. [ c.1968] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/880 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of two unidentified soldiers standing beside Army jeeps and motorcycles, n.d. [1960s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/881 | 1 photograph, 12 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of five young recruits lined up for inspection, n.d. [1960s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/882-887 | Photographs of 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion Sergeants’ Mess Reunions | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/882 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 16 cm., black and white | Photograph of ex-warrant officers and sergeants with Chelsea in -Pensioners C.S.M. J. Wood and W.F. Bale at a reunion dinner, 1965 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/883 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Group photograph of ex-servicemen, warrant officers and sergeants at a regimental reunion, September 1969 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/884 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 16 cm., black and white | Photograph of ex-warrant officers and sergeants at a reunion dinner, Gilesgate, Durham, September 1970 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/885 | 1 photograph, 16 cm. x 12 cm., black and white | Photograph of ex-servicemen at a reunion dinner, September 1975 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/886 | 1 photograph, 18 cm. x 13 cm., black and white | Photograph of ex-servicemen at a reunion, Gilesgate Drill Hall, Durham, September 1978 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/1/887 | Photograph of ex-servicemen at a reunion dinner, September 1978 (1 photograph, 16 cm. x 12 cm., black and white) RECORDS OF SERVICE of 2ND BATTALION | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/351-354 | 2nd Battalion, 1919 – 1939 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/351 | 1 paper | Battalion orders by Lieutenant-Colonel E. Du Pre H. Moore, commanding 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Ahmednagar, India, 7 August 1922 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/352 | 7 papers | Letters to Mrs. Helena D. Shafto from the Earl of Durham, Harraton House, Exning, Suffolk, and Lambton Castle, Fencehouses; Lord Londonderry, Loch Choire Lodge, Kinbrace, Sutherland, and Londonderry House, Park Lane, London; and D’Arcy Lambton, Harraton House, Exning, Suffolk, and Overstrand Hall, Cromer, Norfolk, concerning the presentation of sixteen silver bugles to the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 27 June 1926 – 17 December 1928, and n.d. | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/353 | 1 paper | Letter from Mrs. Helena D. Shafto, 9 South Bailey, Durham, to Colonel Cluff, concerning the late Lord Durham’s interest in the scheme for the presentation of silver bugles to the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 20 January n.y. [1929] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/354 | 1 paper, printed | Loyal address from Khan Sahib Abdul Ghani and Abdul Shakoor, proprietors of Messrs. Shamshuddin and Sons, Army Contractors, to Lieutenant-Colonel J.O.C. Hasted, D.S.O., and the officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light, on the departure of the battalion from India after seventeen years of service, n.d. [1936] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/355 | 2nd Battalion, 1945 – 1948 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/355 | 1 paper, card mounted | Order of the day from the General Officer Commanding Burma Command to the Officer Commanding and all ranks of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, on the departure of the battalion from Burma, acknowledging the good work on anti-dacoit operations and while stationed in Maymyo, Mingaladon, Burma (now Myanmar), 26 November 1947 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/356 | RECORDS OF 2ND BATTALION SERGEANTS’ MESS | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/356 | 1 booklet, printed | Rules and regulations for the Sergeants’ Mess, 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, by Lieutenant-Colonel E. Du Pre H. Moore, n.d. [ c.1922] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/357-359 | SPORTING ACTIVITIES OF 2ND BATTALION | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/357 | 1 paper, printed | Programme of the Army Football Association Challenge Cup Competition semi-final, 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry v.The Regimental Depot, The Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Wuppertal Stadium, Germany, 6 April 1955 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/358 | 3 papers | Telegrams from the Light Infantry Brigade, The Royal Ulster Rifles, and Colonel George Fillingham to the captain of the 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, football team, wishing him luck in the match at the Military Stadium, Aldershot, Hampshire, 27 April 1955 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/359 | 1 paper, printed | The BTA Weekly Journal, no. 218, published by the Education Branch, Headquarters B.T.A., containing a report of the Durham Light Infantry’s victory over the Royal Army Pay Corps’ Training Centre (Devizes), in the Army Soccer cup final at Aldershot, Hampshire, 5 May 1955 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360-360(113) | PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS OF 2ND BATTALION | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360 | Photograph album and scrapbook of the Sergeants’ Mess, 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, 1952 – May 1955 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(1) | Photograph of an officer captioned: The commanding officer, Lt. Col. K.M.D. Leather, M.C. on an exercise, n.d. [c.1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(2) | Photograph of non-commissioned officers in the mess, captioned: Some members of the mess, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(3) | Photograph of trophies, captioned: A Display of Mess Silver, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(4) | Group photograph of mess members with wives and children, captioned: Members and Families on an Outing in Germany, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(5) | Group photograph of non-commissioned officers in dress and field uniform, captioned: Members of the Mess, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(6) | Letter from Cosmo Nevill, Headquarters, 6 Infantry Brigade, British Army on the Rhine, to the [Sergeants’] Mess President, thanking him for the excellent dance given on Hooge Day, 10 August 1954 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(7) | Letter from Mark Leather [Commanding Officer], 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, British Army on the Rhine, to Regimental Sergeant-Major Rafferty, thanking him for the excellent Hooge anniversary ball, 9 August 1954 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(8) | Photograph of an unidentified building, Germany, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(9) | Photograph of a stone entrance with carved title: Lager Belsen, 1944 – 1945, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(10) | Photograph of a memorial column in landscaped area, Army jeep in the background, Belsen, Germany, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(11) | Photograph of a marble memorial to USSR soldiers who died at Belsen, in landscaped area, Belsen, Germany, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(12) | Photograph of a [Jewish] stone memorial in an open field, Belsen, Germany, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(13) | Photograph of a soldier looking at the Jewish memorial, Belsen, Germany, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(14) | Photograph of a white stone obelisk memorial, Belsen, Germany, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(15) | Photograph of a grassed mound, mass grave, Belsen, Germany, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(16) | Photograph of a white stone obelisk memorial, Belsen, Germany, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(17) | Photograph of a road leading past mass graves towards an obelisk memorial, Belsen, Germany, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(18) | Photograph of a signboard marking a mass grave, Belsen, Germany, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(19) | Photograph of the Jewish memorial showing the inscription, Belsen, Germany, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(20) | Photograph of the inscription at the base of the USSR soldiers memorial 1941 – 1945, beside a mass grave, Belsen, Germany, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(21) | Group photograph of sergeants, wives, an officer and two men in civilian dress, probably veteran soldiers, outside a farmhouse, unidentified location, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(22) | Photograph, captioned: Lord Lawson talking to members of the mess, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(23) | Group photograph, captioned: Lord Lawson in the sergeants’ mess, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(24) | Photograph of the 2nd Battalion on parade, captioned: Waiting for the C.I.G.S [Chief of Imperial General Staff], n.d. [1952] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(25) | Photograph of the 2nd Battalion marching past the saluting platform in column, captioned: The C.I.G.S. taking the salute at Barnard Castle, n.d. [1952] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(26) | Photograph of senior officers inspecting soldiers of the 2nd Battalion The D.L.I., captioned: The C.I.G.S. inspecting the parade, n.d. [1952] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(27) | Photograph of a column of soldiers in full kit, marching out of barracks, captioned: Leaving Barnard Castle for Germany, n.d. [1952] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(28) | Photograph of a column of soldiers marching out of barracks watched by women and children, captioned: The March from Barnard to Durham, n.d. [1952] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(29) | Photograph of a column of soldiers led by officers marching through Barnard Castle, n.d. [1952] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(30) | Photograph of a column of soldiers with full kit, marching through Barnard Castle, captioned: The March from Barnard Castle to Durham, n.d. [1952] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(31) | Photograph of a group of soldiers with kit bags at a railway station, captioned: Leaving for B.A.O.R., n.d. [1952] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(32) | Photograph of a group of soldiers with full kit climbing aboard a train, captioned: Farewell at Durham Station ready for B.A.O.R., n.d. [1952] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(33) | Photograph of 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry C.O. greeting the Chief of Imperial General Staff, captioned: Lieutenant-Colonel Leather, M.C. greeting the C.I.G.S., n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(34) | Photograph of the Chief of Imperial General Staff inspecting soldiers of 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, captioned: The C.I.G.S. inspecting the guard Sgt., Durham Guard Commander, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(35) | Photograph of the Commanding Officer of the 2nd D.L.I. and an unidentified veteran talking to a regimental sergeant-major, captioned: Lt. Col. Leather, M.C. talking to R.S.M. Thomasson, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(36) | Photograph of General Sir John Harding preparing to address the parade, captioned: Presentation of the colours to the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [c.1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(37) | Photograph of an officer receiving the Queen’s colour from General Sir John Harding, captioned: Lieut. J.C.A. Yate Receiving the Queen’ s colour, presentation of new colours, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(38) | Photograph of two officers carrying the Queen’s and Regimental colours, flanked by three non-commissioned officers, captioned: Colour Party, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(39) | Photograph of a General talking to the R.S.M. behind a line of soldiers on parade, captioned: General Sir John Harding talking to R.S.M. Thomasson after the parade, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(40) | Photograph of two officers of 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry marching with the Queen’s and Regimental colours, captioned: Slow march with the new colours, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(41) | Photograph of a non-commissioned officer checking his boots, captioned: O.R.Q.M.S. Craft’s Boots, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(42) | Photograph of an officer and a double rank of soldiers on march past, captioned: The Double-March past for the C.I.G.S., n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(43) | Photograph of a regimental band playing while marching past the General Officer on the Saluting base, captioned: The C.I.G.S. taking the salute, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(44) | Photograph of a senior officer and Lord Mayor on the podium, captioned: The C.I.G.S. with the Lord Mayor of Durham, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(45) | Photograph of officers draping the colours over drums in front of the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry on parade, captioned: Major D.F. Crosthwaite and Major J. Taylor prepare the new colours for the consecration, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(46) | Photograph of soldiers of 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, marching past the Chief of Imperial General Staff on the saluting base, captioned: The C.I.G.S. taking the salute, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(47) | Photograph of Chief of Imperial General Staff, General Sir John Harding, making awards to three N.C.O.s, captioned: The C.I.G.S. presented three long service and good conduct medals to C.S.M. Morrelly, Colour Sgt. J. Howells, Sgt. Pettifer, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(48) | Photograph of the band major addressing the C.I.G.S. in front of the saluting base, captioned: B. Major McDowell asking for permission to carry on with the parade from the C.I.G.S., n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(49) | Photograph of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry on parade with new colours being addressed by the C.I.G.S., captioned: The C.I.G.S. addressing the battalion, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(50) | Photograph of the escort to the colours and colour party, 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, marching past the saluting base, captioned: The C.I.G.S. taking the salute, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(51) | Group photograph of women, one holding a baby, captioned: Wives Club at Wuppertal, Germany, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(52) | Group photograph of N.C.O.s in dress and undress uniform, in front of Sergeants’ Mess trophies, captioned: Some Members of the Mess, Germany, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(53) | Photograph of N.C.O.s. sitting round a table with drinks, captioned: Some Members of the Mess, Germany, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(54) | Photograph of a collection of silver cups and trophies, captioned: A display of mess silver, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(55) | Photograph of a non-commissioned officer sitting beside a table laden with food, captioned: Who’s Who, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(56) | Photograph of a large silver cup, captioned: The Lahore Trades Cup, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(57) | Photograph of a senior officer in greatcoat, arriving at an evening function, captioned: Brigadier C.A.R. Nevill, D.S.O., O.B.E., n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(58) | Photograph of actors on stage, captioned: First Pantomime in B.A.O.R. played by the 2nd Battalion D.L.I., n.d. [c. January 1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(59) | Photograph of pantomime characters captioned: CSM Beatson, Sgt. Temple, and Sgt. Middleton, Master Beatson , n.d. [c.January 1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(60) | Photograph of pantomime characters, duplicate of D/DLI 2/2/370(58) captioned: Lt. Bingham-Newland and Second Lieutenant Irvine, n.d. [c. January 1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(61) | Photograph of pantomime characters, similar to D/DLI 2/2/370(59), n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(62) | Photograph of a non-commissioned officer receiving an award from Major-General B.A. Coad, Divisional Commander, captioned: C.S.M. Dalgetty receiving long service medal, n.d. [13 September 1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(63) | Photograph of a non-commissioned officer receiving an award from Major-General B.A. Coad, Divisional Commander, captioned: O.R.Q.M.S. Craft receiving the long service medal , n.d. [13 September 1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(64) | Photograph of a non-commissioned officer standing to attention in front of Major-General B.A. Coad, Divisional Commander, captioned: O.R.Q.M.S. Craft receiving the long service and good conduct medal, n.d. [13 September 1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(65) | Photograph, captioned: B. Maj. McDowell also receiving the long service medal, n.d. [13 September 1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(66) | Photograph of Orderly Room Quartermaster Sergeant Craft receiving his medal, n.d. [13 September 1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(67) | Photograph, captioned: R.S.M. Rafferty receiving the long service and good conduct medal, n.d. [13 September 1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(68) | Photograph of four senior N.C.O.s talking to an officer after the awards, captioned: R.S.M. Rafferty, C.S.M. Dalgetty, B. Maj. McDowell, O.R.Q.M.S. Craft, n.d. [13 September 1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(69) | Photograph of buglers of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry marching on parade, captioned: B.Maj. McDowell and Buglers, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(70) | Photograph of the band of 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry marching past parade ground, captioned: 2nd Battalion Bugles and Band, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(71) | Photograph of Regimental Sergeant-Major Rafferty, saluting a senior officer after the award presentation, n.d. [13 September 1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(72) | Photograph of officers leading men in a march past the saluting base, captioned: The March Past, n.d. [1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(73) | Photograph of senior non-commissioned officers of 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, at an awards ceremony, captioned: R.S.M. Rafferty, C.S.M. Dalgetty, B. Maj. McDowell, O.R.Q.M.S. Craft, n.d. [13 September 1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(74) | Photograph of Band Major McDowell shaking hands with an officer after the award, n.d. [13 September 1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(75) | Photograph of Regimental Sergeant-Major Rafferty receiving an award from Major-General B.A. Coad, n.d. [13 September 1954] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(76) | Message from the G.O.C. 2nd Infantry Division to Officer Commanding 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Belfast Barracks, Northern Ireland, sending congratulations on the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry’s football victory over 1st K.S.L.I., n.d. [9 February 1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(77) | Newspaper cutting celebrating the victory of the 2nd D.L.I. football team over 1st Royal Dragoons, in the B.A.O.R. cup final at Minden, Germany, n.d. [5 March 1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(78) | Photograph of supporters of the 2nd Battalion The D.L.I. with team banner, captioned: 2/DLI at Minden for the B.A.O.R. Cup, Germany, n.d. [5 March 1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(79) | Photograph of 2nd Battalion The D.L.I. soldiers in the grandstand supporting the football team, captioned: Minden Football Ground, West Germany, n.d. [5 March 1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(80) | Photograph of N.C.O.s acting as cheerleaders of 2nd D.L.I. supporters at football match, captioned: The ‘Blaydon Races’ by the Durhams Sgt. Eland also Sgt. Hannaway, Minden, West Germany, n.d. [5 March 1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(81) | Photograph of a footballer of the 2nd Battalion The D.L.I. team shaking hand of civilian official after game in front of a crowd of supporters, Minden, Germany, n.d. [5 March 1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(82) | Photograph of a Major of the 2nd Battalion The D.L.I. looking at football cup with members of team, captioned: Maj. Taylor and the team, having won the B.A.O.R. cup, West Germany, n.d. [March 1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(83) | Photograph of a football team showing off the B.A.O.R. cup while sitting on the roof of a coach, captioned: Back at Wuppertal after winning B.A.O.R. Cup, West Germany, n.d. [March 1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(84) | Photograph of a group of soldiers, families outside barracks, in snow, captioned: 2nd D.L.I. football supporters, Wuppertal, Germany, n.d. [1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(85) | Photograph of the band of the 2nd Battalion The D.L.I. outside the barracks in the snow, captioned: The Welcome from the Band for the winners of the B.A.O.R., West Germany, n.d. [March 1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(86) | Photograph of the 2nd Battalion The D.L.I. football team posing with cup and banner outside, barracks in the snow, captioned: Winners of the B.A.O.R. cup, West Germany, n.d. [March 1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(87) | Photograph of the 2nd Battalion The D.L.I. football team captain being presented with a cup from a civilian dignitary, captioned: Cpl. Allison receiving the B.A.O.R. cup, West Germany, n.d. [5 March 1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(88) | Photograph of captioned: Field Marshal Montgomery talking to C.S.M. Morrely, n.d. [1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(89) | Newspaper cutting concerning a tribute to the 2nd Battalion The D.L.I. by a local Durham M.P. upon the notification of the disbandment of the Battalion, n.d. [1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(90) | Programme of the army cup final 1954-1955, 2nd Battalion D.L.I. v. Royal Army Pay Corps Training Centre, Aldershot, Hampshire, 27 April 1955 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(91) | Special order of the day by Lieutenant-Colonel K.M.W. Leather, M.C., O.C. the 2nd Battalion The D.L.I. congratulating the football team after winning the Army Football Challenge Cup, Germany, 29 April 1955 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(92) | Page from Keynotes, the 2nd Division newspaper, concerning the 2nd Battalion The D.L.I.’s football match and victory in the Army Football Cup Final, 1954 – 1955 season, 7 May 1955 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(93) | Photograph of a major in full dress, offering a cigarette to a woman at the Hooge Ball, captioned: Hooge Ball, n.d. [1954 – 1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(94) | Photograph of 2nd D.L.I. officers and chaplain having drinks at the Hooge Ball, captioned: Hooge Ball, n.d. [1954 – 1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(95) | Photograph of a young man in dinner jacket, and woman, at the Hooge Ball, captioned: Hooge Ball, n.d. [1954 – 1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(96) | Photograph of an officer and women sitting round a table of drinks at the Hooge Ball, captioned: Hooge Ball, n.d. [1954 – 1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(97) | Photograph of non-commissioned officers in full dress talking at the Hooge Ball, captioned: R.S.M. Rafferty, C/Sgts. Taylor and McBurnie, n.d. [1954 – 1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(98) | Photograph of two soldiers of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry on duty outside the Hooge Ball, captioned: Regimental Police Corporal Davison, n.d. [1954 – 1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(99) | Programme of the farewell ball of the warrant officers and sergeants of the 2nd D.L.I., on the eve of the battalion going into suspended animation, 1955 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(100) | Page from the 2nd Division newspaper Keynotes reporting the farewell parade of the 2nd Battalion The D.L.I. on 11 May 1955 at Keightley Barracks, Wuppertal, West Germany, 21 May 1955 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(101) | Photograph of R.S.M. Rafferty receiving the long service and good conduct medal, similar to D/DLI 2/2/360(75), 13 September 1954 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(102) | Photograph of the march off of the colours at the Hooge Ball, 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 1954 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(103) | Group photograph of the warrant officers and sergeants of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry outside Wuppertal Barracks, Germany, similar to D/DLI 2/2/342, 9 May 1955 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(104) | Group photograph of ‘D’ Company, 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Champion Company 1954 – 1955, winners of the Hooge Shield, Inter-Platoon Football Shield, Inter-Company Cross Country Shield, Inter-Company Boxing Shield, Inter-Company Football Shield, Inter-Company Shooting Shield, and 6 Infantry Brigade .22 Shooting Competition, 1955 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(105) | Group photograph of 11 Platoon, ‘D’ Company, 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, winners of the Inter-Platoon Football Shield, n.d. [1954] Left to right, front row: Private Heale; Major E.C. Ellis; Sergeant Breen; Sergeant Hannaway; Private Dinsdale Back row: Privates Boyd, Toppin, Lee, Richardson, Clary, Ogilvie, and Sergeant Duncan | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(106) | Group photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel K.M.W. Leather and men of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, winners of the 2nd Infantry Division Shooting Shield, 1955 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(107) | Photograph of trophies won by the 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Egypt, 1955 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(108) | Telegram from Nevills, Chelsea, London, to [Lieutenant-Colonel K.M.W.] Leather, Berwick House, Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, wishing him luck at the polo tournament, 23 August 1955 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(109) | Photograph of a silver statuette of an unidentified polo pony, winner of 31 races and one of the winning team of seven consecutive polo tournaments, part of the silver belonging to the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(110) | Photograph of a silver statuette of a polo pony, as D/DLI 2/2/360(109), front view, n.d. [1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(111) | Photograph of a silver statuette of a polo pony, as D/DLI 2/2/360(109), back view, n.d. [1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(112) | Photograph of a silver statuette of a polo pony, as D/DLI 2/2/360(109), side view, n.d. [1955] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/360(113) | 1 volume, leather, half-bound | Photograph of a silver statuette of a polo pony, as D/DLI 2/2/360(109), side view, n.d. [1955] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/361-377 | PHOTOGRAPHS Photographs of 2nd Battalion, 1881 – 1914 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/361 | 1 photograph, 35 cm. x 31 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph of an ink drawing, by E.B. Hob[ ], depicting a column of British infantrymen, Indians and mules struggling to negotiate the steep hillside paths in India, n.d. [ c.1900] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/362 | 1 paper, 23 cm. x 26 cm., black and white, card mounted | Print of an engraving of General Sir John Bisset, K.C.M.G., Colonel of the 106th Light Infantry, 2 November 1875; joint colonel of The Durham Light Infantry with Lord William Paulet from 1881, and Colonel of The Durham Light Infantry 10 May 1893 – 26 May 1894, n.d. [ c.1900] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/363 | 1 card, 14 cm. x 9 cm., colour printed | Postcard illustration of ‘The Durham Light Infantry: The Colours and Escort’, drawn by Ernest Ibbetson, n.d. [1908 – 1914] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/364 | 1 card, 14 cm. x 9 cm., colour printed | Postcard illustration of ‘The Durham Light Infantry: The General’s Inspection’, drawn by Ernest Ibbetson, n.d. [1908 – 1914] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/365 | 1 card, 9 cm. x 14 cm., colour printed | Postcard illustration of ‘The Durham Light Infantry: The Drums’, drawn by Ernest Ibbetson, n.d. [1908 – 1914] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/366 | 1 card, 9 cm. x 14 cm., colour printed | Postcard illustration of ‘The Durham Light Infantry: The Sergeant-Major detailing Orders’, drawn by Ernest Ibbetson, n.d. [1908 – 1914] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/367 | 1 card, 9 cm. x 14 cm., colour printed | Postcard illustration of infantrymen in khaki dress, ‘Machine Gun in Action’, drawn by Ernest Ibbetson, n.d. [1908 – 1914] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/368 | 1 photograph, 6 cm. x 10 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph of an unidentified sergeant of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, taken by Cavilla and Bruzon, photographers, Main Street, College Lane, Gibraltar, n.d. [1880s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/369 | 1 photograph, 6 cm. x 10 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph of an unidentified sergeant of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [late 19th c.] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/370 | 1 photograph, 29 cm. x 21 cm., black and white, card mounted | Group photograph of the signallers of an unidentified battalion, possibly the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, India, n.d. [1890s] Includes: second row, second left, Private James Congleton | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/371 | 1 photograph, 41 cm. x 36 cm., black and white, card mounted, defective | Photograph of a tennis party of the sergeants of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, and their wives, Mhow, India, n.d. [ c.1902] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/372 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of nine soldiers, possibly officers’ servants, of the 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, taken in a reading room at Colchester Barracks, Essex, n.d. [1902 – 1914] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/373 | 1 card, 14 cm. x 9 cm., colour printed | Postcard photograph of regular soldiers of The Durham Light Infantry, in scarlet tunics, constructing a temporary bridge across water from wooden poles and rope; from the ‘Life in our Army’ Series 4621 by Max Ettlinger and Company Limited, London, n.d. [ c.1905] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/374 | 1 photograph, 50 cm. x 39 cm., black and white | Group photograph of the hockey team of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, winners of an unidentified silver cup, Cork, Co. Cork, n.d. [1905 – 1908] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/375 | 1 photograph, 43 cm. x 35 cm., black and white, card mounted, defective | Group photograph of the tug-of-war team of ‘E’ Company, 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, winners of the Inter-Company Tug-of-War in 1906, 1907 and 1908, Cork, Co. Cork, n.d. [1908] Top row: Private Tate; Lance-Corporal Wray; Lance-Corporal Johnson; Lance- Corporal Gordon; Private Heginbotham, Sergeant Haylett Centre row: Colour-Sergeant Purvis; Captain R.M. Tyler, Sergeant Jones Sitting: Private Christie; Private White | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/376 | 1 photograph, 18 cm. x 13 cm., black and white | Copy photograph of the football team of the 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, Army Cup finalists [Colchester, Essex], 1911 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/377 | 1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Group photograph of a 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry football team, 1912 – 1913 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/378-384 | Photographs of 2nd Battalion, 1914 – 1918 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/378 | 1 photograph, 8 cm. x 12 cm., black and white | Photograph of four soldiers of ‘A’ Company, 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, three holding rum jars, in a trench in the Armentieres sector, France, 1914 – 1915 Back row, left to right: Mason, Fenwick, Jackson Front, seated: Allsop | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/379 | 1 photograph, 8 cm. x 12 cm., black and white | Photograph of four soldiers of ‘A’ Company, 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, in a trench in the Armentieres sector, France, February 1915 Left to right: Jackson, Fenwick, Mason, Tynan | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/380 | 1 photograph, 6 cm. x 8 cm., black and white | Photograph of an unidentified soldier in a trench, probably of ‘A’ Company, 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, France, 1914 – 1915 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/381 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 12 cm., black and white | Photograph of two soldiers probably of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, outside a tent at camp, n.d. [1914 – 1918] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/382 | Photograph of a ruined building and sandbags in the foreground, after the recapture of Hooge, Belgium, n.d. [August 1916] (1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white) | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/383 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of the side of a crater and breached sandbag fortifications at Hooge, Belgium, n.d. [August 1916] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/384 | 1 photograph, 25 cm. x 32 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph portrait of King Vajiravudh, General, wearing the uniform of The Durham Light Infantry, dedicated to the 2nd Battalion, 1916 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/385-408 | Photographs of 2nd Battalion, 1919 – 1939 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/385 | 1 photograph, 22 cm. x 17 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph of the colour party of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry at Lechenich, Germany, February 1919 Front: Second Lieutenant Cawley; Second Lieutenant H. McBain, M.C. Back: Company Sergeant Major C. Waters; Sergeant Willis; Sergeant Gould | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/386 | 1 photograph, 37 cm. x 30 cm., black and white, card mounted | Group photograph of the football team of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, winners of the Nayaran Shield, India, 1921 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/387 | 1 photograph, 29 cm. x 24 cm., black and white | Group photograph of soldiers, possibly a platoon section, of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, probably taken at Ahmednagar, India, n.d. [1922] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/388 | 1 photograph, 19 cm. x 14 cm., black and white | Photograph of Lieutenant H. McBain, M.C. and the buglers of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, India, Armistice Day, November, n.y. [1920s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/389 | 1 photograph, 20 cm. x 15 cm., black and white, card mounted | Group photograph of Lieutenant H. McBain, 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, and members of the Indian Supply Staff, taken by Mela Ram and Sons, Peshawar & Cherat, India, n.d. [1920s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/390 | 1 photograph, 30 cm. x 25 cm., black and white, card mounted | Group photograph of the Garrison Military Police staff, India, n.d. [1920s] Includes soldiers of The Durham Light Infantry | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/391 | 1 photograph, 10 cm. x 14 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel R.T. Lee, 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, India, n.d. [1928] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/392 | 1 photograph, 28 cm. x 22 cm., black and white | Photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel R.T. Lee, 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, mounted on horseback, India, n.d. [1928] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/393 | 1 photograph, 24 cm. x 18 cm., black and white | Photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel R.T. Lee, 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, mounted on horseback, side view, India, n.d. [1928] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/394 | 1 photograph, 12 cm. x 7 cm., black and white | Photograph of a football team of officers of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, including Lieutenant Hubert McBain, middle row, second left, probably taken in India, n.d. [1920s – 1930s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/395 | 1 photograph, 11 cm. x 6 cm., black and white | Photograph of soldiers playing in a football match, no location, n.d. [1920s – 1930s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/396 | 1 photograph, 30 cm. x 25 cm., black and white | Group photograph of Lieutenant H. McBain and Garrison Military Police staff of The Durham Light Infantry and other regiments, possibly at Razmak, India, n.d. [ c.1930] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/397 | 1 photograph, 13 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of soldiers of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry at a railway station, marked ‘Tundan’, North West Frontier Province, India, n.d. [1930] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/398 | 1 photograph, 38 cm. x 30 cm., black and white, card mounted | Group photograph of a platoon of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, including Captain E.C. Sebag-Montefiore, India, n.d. [1930s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/399 | 1 photograph, 15 cm. x 10 cm., black and white | Photograph of Captain H. McBain at the head of ‘B’ Company, 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, marching past crowds at an Armistice Day parade, India, 1934 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/400 | 1 photograph, 15 cm. x 10 cm., black and white | Photograph of soldiers and the regimental band of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, and civilians at the Armistice Day parade, India, n.d. [1934] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/401 | 1 photograph, 17 cm. x 10 cm., black and white | Photograph of officers, non-commissioned officers and men of Support Company, 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry Company Athletic Team, Champion Company, with a trophy clock and two shields, Barrackpore, India, 1934 – 1935 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/402 | 1 photograph, 28 cm. x 20 cm., black and white | Group photograph of officers and non-commissioned officers of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Poona, India, n.d. [1936] The officers are wearing black armbands | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/403 | 1 photograph, 36 cm. x 30 cm., black and white, card mounted | Group photograph of officers and non-commissioned officers of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, including Major C.W. Beart, front row, centre, at Khartoum, Sudan, n.d. [1936] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/404 | 1 photograph, 23 cm. x 17 cm., black and white | Group photograph of soldiers, possibly a platoon section, of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Khartoum, Sudan, n.d. [1936] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/405 | 1 photograph, 6 cm. x 4 cm., black and white | Photograph of a model ship at the British Military Hospital, Bombay, India, made by 31 Company, Royal Army Medical Corps as a token of thanks for the regimental nursing orderlies of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/406 | 1 photograph, 20 cm. x 15 cm., black and white | Photograph of Bugle Major ‘Stotty’ Marshall and the band and bugles of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, possibly taken at South Shields, n.d. [1930s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/407 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of an army athletics team, taken by E.W. Gosman, Newcastle upon Tyne, n.d. [1930s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/408 | 1 photograph, 35 cm. x 25 cm., black and white, card mounted | Group photograph of the band of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [before 1939] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/409-412 | Photographs of 2nd Battalion, 1939 – 1945 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/409 | 1 photograph, 12 cm. x 8 cm., black and white | Copy photograph of members of the band, 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, Chantenay, France, 1939 – 1940 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/410 | 1 paper, 30 cm. x 21 cm., black and white | Copy photograph of soldiers of ‘A’ Company, 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, taken at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, before going to India, n.d. [1941 – 1942] Includes: in centre, holding accordion, Private W. McEvoy | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/411 | 1 paper, 30 cm. x 21 cm., black and white | Copy photograph of ‘A’ Company, 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, taken at Juhu Beach, Bombay, India, 1942 Includes: W. Nolan; W. McEvoy; J. Wilson; R. Stewart; T. English; D. Quirk; [ ] Fitzpatrick; B. McGregor; [ ] Breeden; M. Rooney and J. Parker | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/412 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 6 cm., black and white | Photograph of two officers ‘Self and Tommy’, possibly of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, India, November 1942 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/413-414 | Photographs of 2nd Battalion 1952 – 1955 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/413 | 1 photograph, 25 cm. x 32 cm., colour, card mounted | Photograph of Colour-Sergeant Lambert and Sergeant Ackerman with the new colours of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, outside the barracks, Wuppertal, Germany, 1953 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/2/414 | 1 photograph, 32 cm. x 25 cm., black and white, card mounted | Group photograph of officers of the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 2nd Division, Wuppertal, Germany, 1954 Back row: Lt. J.B. Pearson; Lt. P.C.M. Arnot; 2/Lt. F. Rowland; Lt. F.J. Penty; Lt. C.B.W. Ford; Capt. T.C. Periam; Lt. G.A. Turner; Lt. T.M. Irvine; 2/Lt. R.J. Percy; 2/Lt. R.M.W. Boddington; Front row: Capt. E.R. Peart, M.B.E.; Major A. de V. Gibson; Major J.H. Taylor; Capt. R.J. Bingham-Newland (Adjt.); Major J.L.S. Morant; The Rev. V.J.R. Richards; Major J.G.G. Gray, M.C.; Major A. Catterson; Lt. Col. K.M.W. Leather, M.C.; Major C. Brook-Smith; Major E.C. Ellis | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/3/73-77(3) | PHOTOGRAPHS Photographs of the 4th Battalion, 1881 – 1908 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/3/73 | 1 photograph, 8 cm. x 6 cm., black and white | Photograph of two soldiers, one wearing a slouch hat, and a man and woman in civilian dress, probably taken at camp, n.d. [ c.1900] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/3/74 | 1 photograph, 12 cm. x 10 cm., black and white | Photograph of the furnishings inside an officer’s tent at camp, n.d. [c. 1900] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/3/75 | 1 photograph, 6 cm. x 6 cm., black and white | Photograph of two men in civilian dress, and a woman, Whitley Bay, Northumberland, July 1904 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/3/76 | 1 photograph, 11 cm. x 8 cm., black and white | Photograph of two officers of the 4th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, and two men in civilian dress, seated in deckchairs at camp, probably taken at Deerbolt, near Barnard Castle, n.d. [ c.1902 – 1908] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/3/77 | Page from a photograph album, containing three photographs: | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/3/77(1) | Photograph of the Straits of Magellan, between Cape Horn and the mainland, South America, n.d. [ c.1902 – 1908] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/3/77(2) | Photograph of the Straits of Magellan, between Cape Horn and the mainland, South America, n.d. [ c.1902 – 1908] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/3/77(3) | 1 card, 25 cm. x 22 cm., containing 3 photographs, black and white | Group photograph of the officers of the 4th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, with staff officers at the annual inspection, possibly taken at Deerbolt Camp, Barnard Castle, n.d. [1902 – 1908] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/3/78-78(2) | Photographs of the 3rd Battalion, 1908 – 1955 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/3/78 | Page containing two photographs of the presentation of new colours by Lord Durham to the 3rd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 1 June 1912: | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/3/78(1) | Duplicate of D/DLI 2/3/50 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/3/78(2) | 1 paper containing 2 photographs, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of the colour party of the 3rd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry at the presentation of new colours by Lord Durham, Northumberland, 1 June 1912 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/4/417-418 | RECORDS OF SERVICE OF 4TH BATTALION 1st South Durham Fusiliers, 1868 – 1881 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/4/417 | 1 paper | Copy of a letter from Edward Cardwell, the War Office, to the Earl of Durham, informing him that the 1st Durham Militia is to be made a Fusilier Regiment, 11 December 1868 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/4/418 | 1 paper, card mounted | Conduct Sheet of 2912/3526 John McKenna, Durham Fusilier Regiment of Militia, 15 June 1868 – 2 August 1877 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/4/419-419(2) | PHOTOGRAPHS Photographs of the 3rd Battalion, 1881 – 1908 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/4/419 | Page from an album containing photographs of the 3rd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry: | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/4/419(1) | Group photograph of officers of the 3rd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, including C. Rowlandson, front row, centre, the winners of an unidentified silver cup, taken at camp, n.d. [ c.1900] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/4/419(2) | 1 card containing 1 photograph, 24 cm. x 19 cm., and 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 15 cm., black and white | Photograph of a group of pioneers of the 3rd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, taken at camp, captioned: 100 per cent Endurance, courtesy, gentleness, cleanliness, good humour. Divide by honour. Multiply by courage. Total Tommy Atkins, gentleman, n.d. [c.1900 – 1908] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/4/420 | Photographs of the 4th Battalion, 1908 – 1914 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/4/420 | 1 photograph, 30 cm. x 27 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph of crowds and militiamen outside the premises of L. Smith, motor agent, probably for the laying up of colours of the 4th Battalion, Galgate, Barnard Castle, n.d. [1914] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/4/421-422 | Photographs of the 4th Battalion, 1919 – 1955 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/4/421 | 1 photograph, 16 cm. x 11 cm., black and white | Photograph of the coat of arms above the stone archway of the 1st Durham Militia Stores, Barnard Castle, n.d. [20th c.] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/4/422 | Negative photograph of the view through the stone archway of the Militia Barracks, Barnard Castle, n.d. [20th c.] (1 negative, 6 cm. x 6 cm., black and white) RECORDS OF SERVICE OF 5TH BATTALION | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/66 | 5th Battalion, 1908 – 1914 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/66 | Order of service for a church parade of the Durham Brigade, at Ripon Cathedral, Yorkshire, 12 July 1908 (1 paper, printed) PHOTOGRAPHS | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/67-68 | Photographs of 1st Volunteer Battalion, 1887 – 1908 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/67 | 1 photograph, 15 cm. x 11 cm., black and white | Photograph of volunteer soldiers, possibly of the 1st Volunteer Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, standing beside a water cart, n.d. [1890s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/68 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of eight soldiers of the 1st Volunteer Battalion The Durham Light Infantry at camp, 1901 – 1908 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/69-70 | Photographs of 5th Battalion, 1908 – 1914 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/69 | 1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of the commanding officers of the 5th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Richmond, Yorkshire, 1910 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/70 | 1 postcard, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of the colours and trophies of the 5th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [after 1910] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/71-73 | Photographs of 5th Battalion, 1914 – 1918 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/71 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of the 5th [possibly 3/5th] Battalion The Durham Light Infantry at a drumhead service at camp, taken by Duncan, of Hull, Yorkshire, n.d. [ c.1918] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/72 | 1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of Durham Light Infantry volunteers on parade in camp, taken by Duncan of 15 Anlaby Road, Hull, Yorkshire, n.d. [ c.1918] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/73 | 1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of Durham Light Infantry volunteers on parade at camp, taken by Duncan of 15 Anlaby Road, Hull, Yorkshire, n.d. [ c.1918] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/74-79 | Photographs of unidentified Durham volunteers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Volunteer Battalions The Durham Light Infantry), 1887 – 1908 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/74 | 1 photograph, 24 cm. x 19 cm., black and white, card mounted | Group photograph of officers taken at a Brigade camp, possibly including the 2nd Volunteer Battalion and 4th Volunteer Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, and in the front row, a Victoria Cross winner, possibly Lord Roberts, n.d. [1890s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/75 | 1 photograph, 8 cm. x 11 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph of Private Alfred Smithson of Stockton-on-Tees, Durham Light Infantry Volunteers, 1896 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/76 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of soldiers, wearing slouch hats, and a military band marching through crowds in an unidentified street, possibly a Volunteer Service Battalion, before departure for South Africa, n.d. [1900 – 1902] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/77 | 1 photograph, 30 cm. x 25 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph of a sergeant, wearing a slouch hat and shoulder titles ‘Durham’, ‘2’, and carrying a rifle, from a cyclist battalion, being presented with a trophy at an unidentified competition, possibly at Aldershot, Hampshire, n.d. [ c.1904] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/78 | 1 photograph, 15 cm. x 11 cm., black and white | Photograph of a group of cooks, Durham Light Infantry Volunteers, and two boys, taken outside a camp kitchen, n.d. [ c.1908] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/79 | 1 card, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of King Edward VII and King Alfonso XIII of Spain, inspecting volunteers at Wolferton, Norfolk, n.d. [1902 – 1910] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/80-104 | Photographs of unidentified Durham territorials (5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Battalions The Durham Light Infantry), 1908 – 1939 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/80 | 1 card, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of troops arriving at the railway station, Ripon, Yorkshire, sent from Simon [ ], Ripon, to Miss Ward, Hall Street, Barnard Castle, postmark 7 July 1908 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/81 | 1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of a drumhead service, Richmond Camp, Yorkshire, 1909 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/82 | 1 photograph, 13 cm. x 8 cm., black and white | Photograph view across countryside, captioned: After the Storm, from Richmond Moors,Yorkshire, n.d. [c.1909] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/83 | 1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of tents in front of a two-storey building, captioned: Midsummer’s night in camp, Richmond, Yorkshire, n.d. [1909] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/84 | 1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of officers and civilians at Rothbury Camp, Northumberland, 5 August 1910 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/85 | 1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of Durham Light Infantry soldiers marching into camp, Rothbury, Northumberland, 1910 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/86 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of an unidentified captain, mounted on a horse, outside tents at a territorial camp, n.d. [ c.1910] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/87 | 1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of Durham Light Infantry territorials entering Featherstone Camp, Northumberland, 1911 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/88 | 1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of the cooks at Featherstone Camp, Northumberland, n.d. [ c.1911] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/89 | 1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of territorial soldiers at a ‘camp dinner’, no location, n.d. [ c.1911] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/90 | 1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of soldiers taking a break at camp, n.d. [c.1911] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/91 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Group photograph of Colonel A.C. Becher, officer commanding the Durham Light Infantry Brigade, and his staff, Scarborough, Yorkshire, August 1912 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/92 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of officers of an unidentified territorial battalion The Durham Light Infantry, dressed in patrols, seated in wicker chairs at camp, n.d. [ c.1912] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/93 | 1 photograph, 10 cm. x 8 cm., black and white | Photograph of the drumhead service at an unidentified camp, including cadets or members of the Church Lads’ Brigade in the background, n.d. [1902 – 1914] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/94 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of volunteer soldiers in camp, n.d. [early 20th c.] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/95 | 1 photograph, 6 cm. x 8 cm., black and white | Photograph of six soldiers of The Durham Light Infantry at camp, Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, 1925 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/96 | Photograph of the Territorial Camp, Marske-by-Sea, Yorkshire, 1928 (1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white) Photographs of Durham Light Infantry battalions at Catterick, Yorkshire, 1930 See also D/DLI 2/6/10 (530 – 536) | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/97 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 17 cm., black and white | Aerial photograph of Durham Light Infantry battalions on parade at Catterick Aerodrome, Yorkshire, 3 July 1930 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/98 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 17 cm., black and white | Aerial photograph of soldiers of the 5th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry marching past a saluting base at Catterick Aerodrome, Yorkshire, 3 July 1930 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/99 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 17 cm., black and white | Aerial photograph of soldiers of the 7th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry marching past a saluting base at Catterick Aerodrome, Yorkshire, 3 July 1930 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/100 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 17 cm., black and white | Aerial photograph of soldiers of the 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry marching past a saluting base at Catterick Aerodrome, Yorkshire, 3 July 1930 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/101 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 17 cm., black and white | Aerial photograph of soldiers of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry marching past a saluting base at Catterick Aerodrome, Yorkshire, 3 July 1930 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/102 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 17 cm., black and white | Aerial photograph of sappers marching past a saluting base at Catterick Aerodrome, Yorkshire, 3 July 1930 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/103 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 17 cm., black and white | Aerial photograph of unidentified soldiers, probably of The Durham Light Infantry at Catterick Aerodrome, Yorkshire, 3 July 1930 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/104 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 16 cm., black and white | Photograph of soldiers of The Durham Light Infantry, including cyclists, marching along a road, watched by onlookers, n.d. [1930s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/105-106 | Photographs of unidentified Durham territorials (6th, 8th and 9th Battalions The Durham Light Infantry), 1939 – 1967 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/105 | 1 photograph, 22 cm. x 17 cm., black and white | Group photograph of nine officers of an unidentified territorial battalion of The Durham Light Infantry at an annual camp, n.d. [mid-20th c.] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/5/106 | Photograph of an unidentified captain, possibly of The Durham Light Infantry, and a woman wearing the uniform of the Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service, standing with cub scouts at a church doorway, n.d. [1940s] (1 photograph, 16 cm. x 21 cm., black and white) RECORDS OF SERVICE OF 6TH BATTALION | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/488-489 | Battalion histories and scrapbooks, 1860 – 1967 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/488 | 1 booklet, cloth bound | A Few Notes on The 6th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, by W.L. Vane, 1 January 1910 Covers history of the battalion from 1861 to 1910 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/489 | 1 volume, cloth bound | The Story of the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, France, April 1915 – November 1918 edited by Captain R.B. Ainsworth, M.C., 1919 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/490-492 | Records collected by Harry Moses for his history of the 6th Battalion, The Faithful Sixth,1995 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/490 | 3 papers | Draft foreword to The Faithful Sixth, by Peter Jeffreys, n.d. [ ] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/491 | 2 papers | Letter from Peter Jeffreys, Watergate Farm, Wark, Hexham, Northumberland, to Harry Moses concerning the draft of the 6th Battalion history and the lack of an award to Bill Watson, 28 March 1995 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/492 | 21 transparencies and 22 papers | Transparencies for the diagrams in The Faithful Sixth, by H. Moses, 1995 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/493-514 | Letters to Harry Moses concerning the history of the 6th Battalion | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/493 | 5 papers | Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril W. Alder, 14 Byfield Close, Woodmancote, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, to Harry Moses, concerning the history of the 6th Battalion from 1947 to 1967, 16 April 1991 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/494 | 1 paper | Letter from Reggie Atkinson to Harry Moses concerning a copy map of Bayeux, France, and the battles of the 6th Battalion in 1944, 20 August n.y. [1990s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/495-497 | 46 papers | Letters from Colonel David J. Fenner, 1 Riverside Cottages, Woodmead Road, Lyme Regis, Dorset, to Harry Moses, and notes concerning his war service, 3 March -3 June 191 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/498-500 | 5 papers | Letters from Colonel David J. Fenner, 1 Riverside Cottages, Woodmead Road, Lyme Regis, Dorset, to Harry Moses, concerning the Joint Post action at Conde, France, on 7 June 1944, 18 March – 4 April 1986 and 30 August 1991 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/501-502 | 2 papers | Letters from Sergeant Charles Reginald Haseley, Donnington, Shropshire, to Harry Moses concerning his war service, 1992 and n.d. | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/503 | 2 papers | Letter from Sergeant Charles Reginald Haseley to Harry Moses concerning his service during the Second World War, 1999 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/504 | 5 papers | Letter from David Joy, Greenbanks, Horn Street, Nunney, Frome, Somerset, to Harry Moses concerning his service as Medical Officer during the Second World War, 28 June 1991 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/505 | 5 papers | Letter from Michael Lockhart, 43 Lytton Grove, Putney, London, to Harry Moses concerning his service during the Second World War, and undated copies of a uniform list, a diary of events in Belgium and a sketch of Boulogne, France, 14 June 1986 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/506 | 4 papers | Letter from George Lyster Todd, 2 Devon Gardens, Liverpool, to Harry Moses, concerning his command of the 6th Battalion from 1951 to 1953, 2 April 1990 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/507 | 6 papers | Letter from Major A. Eric Short to Harry Moses concerning his memories of the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry from 1942 to 1946, and three newspaper cuttings concerning the Memorable Order of Tin Hats War Museum in Escombe, Queensburgh, South Africa, 23 November 1992 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/508 | 1 paper | Letter from A. Eric Short, South Africa, to Harry Moses, concerning his service as mechanical transport officer, during the Second World War, 7 March 1993 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/509 | 15 papers | Letter from Peter Tyndal, The Chantry, Netherbury, Bridport, Dorset, to Harry Moses concerning his war service from 1944 to 1945; and photocopies of movement orders, patrol tables and message forms dated 1944; 17 February 1992 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/510-513 | 17 papers | Letters from Peter G. Tyndal [?Tyndale], The Chantry, Netherbury, Bridport, Dorset, to Harry Moses, concerning his war service, 17 February, 17 February – 7 December 1992, and 17 February 1994 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/514 | 1 paper | Letter from Roy Wiggins, 9 The Fairway, Northwood, Middlesex, to Harry Moses, concerning his service during the Second World War, n.d. [ c.1990] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/515-516 | Letters to the Regimental County Secretary concerning the history of the 6th Battalion | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/515 | 5 papers | Letter from David J. Fenner, 1 Riverside Cottages, Woodmead Road, Lyme Regis, Dorset, to the Regimental County Secretary, enclosing an article on the Joint Post Action at Conde sur Seulle, Normandy, France, on 7 June 1944, 23 January 1986 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/516 | 8 papers | Letter from Dr. David Joy, Greenbanks, Horn Street, Nunney, Frome, Somerset, to Major David A. Bower, Regimental County Secretary, concerning his service during the Second World War, 28 February 1991 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/517-527 | Records concerning the 6th Battalion campaigns of the Second World War, sent to Harry Moses | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/517 | 2 papers, duplicated | Photocopies of coded Army message forms, 19 and 23 May 1940 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/518 | 31 papers, duplicated | Copy of the war diary of the 4th (Motorcycle) Battalion, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, 24 April – 2 June 1940 Served as a Reconnaissance Unit with 151 Brigade in France, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/519 | 3 papers, duplicated | Copy report of ‘Y’ Company, 4th Battalion, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, concerning the action on 21 – 22 May 1940 The Battalion served with 6th and 8th Battalions The Durham Light Infantry at the Battle of Arras on 21 May 1940 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/520 | 2 papers | Copy plan of the Battle of Arras, 21 May 1940, and attached notes to H. Moses from an unidentified officer and I.R. English, n.d. [ c.1995]] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/521 | 2 papers, duplicated | Sketch plans of the Durham Light Infantry positions at Arras and Vimy Ridge, France, May 1940 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/522 | 4 papers, duplicated | Copy newspaper cutting, sketch plan, route card and prisoner of war information concerning the defence of Arras, by the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 1940, n.d. [1940] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/523 | 8 papers | Copy diary entries concerning the action at Gazala, North Africa, from 14 to 29 June 1942, by [Boys-Stones], n.d. [1990s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/524 | 11 papers | Account of the war service of Ernest Harvey, of Hetton-le-Hole, with The Durham Light Infantry from 1942 to 1947, including the North West Europe campaign, n.d. [1990s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/525 | German, 24 papers, duplicated | Photocopy of a German Divisional operations report, from 27 May to 22 June 1944; copy made, n.d. [1990s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/526 | 8 papers | Translation of part of D/DLI 2/6/525, n.d. [1990s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/527 | 8 papers, duplicated | Photocopy of an account of the action of the 6th Battalion at the Chateau Les Le Gallois, France, on 16 June 1944, by R.G. Atkinson, n.d. [1990s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/528-530 | Records concerning the history of the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry after 1945, sent to Harry Moses | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/528 | 16 papers | Copy correspondence of Colonel The Rt. Hon. The Lord Barnard of Raby Castle, and Lieutenant-Colonel W.I. Watson, commanding 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, with Headquarters, 151 Infantry Brigade (T.A.) concerning Officers’ No. 1 Dress, 26 and 29 July 1950, and copy battalion dress regulations for the band and bugles, n.d.; forwarded to Harry Moses by ‘Oscar’ Norman, Milton Mill, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, 29 April 1992 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/529-530 | 2 papers, duplicated | Copy letters from Brigadier A.E. Holt, Headquarters, 151 Infantry Brigade (T.A.), T.A. Centres, Middlesbrough and Yarm, Yorkshire, to Lieutenant-Colonel David J. Fenner, congratulating him on his command of the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 2 July 1964 and 16 September 1966 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/531-533 | Records concerning Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Henry ‘Harry’ Miller , T.D., commanded 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 1934 – 1940 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/531 | 1 paper | Telegram from the War Office to Lieutenant-Colonel T.H. Miller, Erlstoke Park, Devizes, Wiltshire, recalling him to the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 11 May 1940 Originally enclosed in D/DLI 2/6/509 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/532/1 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 20 cm., black and white, card mounted | Portrait photograph of Second-Lieutenant Thomas Henry Miller, 1915 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/532/2-5 | 4 papers | Newspaper obituary notices for Second-Lieutenant Thomas Henry Miller, n.d. | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/533 | 1 photograph, 24 cm. x 18 cm., black and white | Group photograph of an unidentified officers’ training course, n.d. [c.1918] Includes: Canadians, and second row, second from right, Harry Miller of Wolsingham, later Colonel, who commanded the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry in France/Belgium 1940 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/534-540 | Photographs of 1225 Corporal Edwin Moyle , 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, c.1911 – 1918 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/534 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white | Photograph of 1225 Lance-Corporal Bugler Edwin Moyle, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [ c.1911] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/535 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white | Photograph of 1225 Lance-Corporal Bugler Edwin Moyle, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, holding a bugle presented in 1861, and drummer Wilf O’Dare, at camp, Strensall, Yorkshire, n.d. [1911] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/536 | 1 paper, duplicated | Photocopy of a newspaper cutting concerning the military service of Edwin Moyle and the photograph D/DLI 2/6/535, n.d. [after 1922] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/537 | 1 photograph, 8 cm. x 13 cm., black and white | Photograph of six soldiers of No. 4 Section, ‘B’ Company, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, including Corporal Edwin Moyle, back row, second from right, Bensham, Gateshead, n.d. [November 1914] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/538 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white | Photograph of the soldiers of No. 4 Section, ‘B’ Company, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, outside the church at Bensham, Gateshead, 30 November 1914 Includes: Edwin Moyle, front row, right | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/539 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the 2nd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 13th and 15th Battalions The Durham Light Infantry, prisoners of war interned in Holland, at The Hague, Holland, July 1918 Includes: Corporal Edwin Moyle, second row from back, sixth from right, excluding the sergeant standing | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/540 | 3 papers | Letter from Edwin Moyle, 47 Penrhyn Court, Penrhyn Bay, Llandudno, Caernarvonshire, to Harry Moses, concerning the service and photographs of his father, 14 February 1997 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/541-548(3) | Photographs of soldiers of the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, who served during the Second World War | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/541 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white | Photograph of Private Charles Reginald Haseley of Donnington, Shropshire, 1939 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/542 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white | Photograph of Corporal (acting Sergeant) Charles Reginald Haseley, in overseas dress, 1942 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/543 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white | Photograph of Privates J. Jackson, J. Avery and J. German (back row), and J. Coglan, D. Robinson and A. Dunn (front row), 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Larnaca, Cyprus, 1 August 1941 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/544 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white | Photograph of Sergeant Trevor Ingram, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Alexandria, Egypt, August 1942 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/545 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white | Photograph of Sergeants Sid Wearmouth and Trevor Ingram, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Alexandria, Egypt, 1942 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/546 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white | Photograph of Sergeants Jacky Pease, Trevor Ingram and [ ] Wilson, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Alexandria, Egypt, 1942 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/547 | 1 photograph, 8 cm. x 13 cm., black and white | Photograph of Private Harry Wilkinson, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Egypt, 1942 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/548 | Photocopy of three photographs: | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/548(1) | Photograph of the first tracked vehicle captured by ‘A’ Company, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 8 June 1944 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/548(2) | Photograph of Ken Wood M.C., officer commanding ‘D’ Company, and P.G. Tynedale, Mechanical Transport Officer, taken on leave in Brussels, Belgium, 1944 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/548(3) | 1 paper, duplicated | Photograph of Ken Wood and P.G. Tyndale and civilians, taken on leave in Brussels, Belgium, 1944 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/549-554 | 6th Battalion, 1919 – 1939 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/549 | 17 papers | Confidential instructions and memoranda issued by Captain H.B. Dawes, Headquarters, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Bishop Auckland, concerning the protection of drill halls and regimental property in the event of civil unrest, the safe custody of arms and ammunition, and the possible enlistment of Sinn Feiners and Communists into the Defence Force for the purpose of obtaining arms, during the transition from the Defence Force to Territorial status, 23 and 26 August 1920; 12 February – 8 December 1921 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/550 | 1 paper | Letter from H.B. Dawes to [E.R.] Hanby-Holmes, concerning the forwarding of confidential information to his home address at Ironville, Etherley Lane, 8 April 1921 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/551 | 1 paper | Secret memorandum concerning ‘Sinn Fein Ruses’ 15 April 1921; forwarded by Captain and Adjutant H.B. Dawes to the officer commanding 3 Company (Barnard Castle), 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 17 April 1921 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/552 | 1 paper | List of Territorial Force secret documents received by 3 Company, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Barnard Castle, 1920 – 1921 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/553 | 1 paper | List of parades, for the ensuing week, of 3 Company, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, and instructions for handing in uniform, issued by Company Sergeant-Major W. Laing, Barnard Castle, 19 August 1922 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/554 | 1 poster, 50 cm. x 75 cm., colour printed | Recruiting poster for the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [1936] Originally enclosed in D/DLI 2/6/10, p.228 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/555-558 | 6th Battalion, 1939 – 1945 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/555 | 1 card | Design for the Christmas card of the 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, Middle East Forces, drawn by Tom Cairns, approved 20 October 1941, and used by the battalion in Cyprus, December 1941 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/556 | 1 paper | Aerogramme copy of the 6th Battalion Christmas card, D/DLI 2/6/555, sent by Major M.R. Ferens, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, to Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Ferens of Bishop Auckland, 6 November 1941 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/557 | 7 papers, duplicated | Copy movement order no. 1 of the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, concerning the route to Conde sur Noireau, France, 17 – 18 August 1944 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/558 | 5 papers, duplicated | Copy instructions from Major G.L. Wood, second in command, ‘B’ Company, [6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry], to the officer commanding ‘B’ and ‘D’ Companies, concerning the positions to be taken up by the 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry and a controlled withdrawal, n.d. [ c.1944] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/559-561 | 6th Battalion, 1945 – 1967 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/559 | 1 poster, 44 cm. x 67 cm., colour printed, card mounted | Recruiting poster advertising Territorial Army vacancies for young men of 17 years of age and over, in the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [1950s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/560 | 1 file | Part II and Part III Orders – Officers, 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, 5 January 1965 – 31 March 1967 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/561 | Part II and Part III Orders – Other Ranks and Band, 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, 10 January – 31 March 1967 (1 file) PHOTOGRAPHS | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/562 | Photographs of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, 1887 – 1908 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/562 | 1 photograph, 38 cm. x 30 cm., black and white, card mounted | Group photograph of the rifle team ‘B’ Company, 2nd [Volunteer] Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, winning team in the No. 11 Match (All England and Scotland), [ ] Association; taken by G. Taylor and Son, Bishop Auckland, n.d. [1890s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/563-567 | Photographs of the 6th Battalion, 1908 – 1914 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/563 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Group photograph of the buglers of the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry at camp, 1913 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/564 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of a Durham Light Infantry church parade at camp, Scarborough, Yorkshire, 1913 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/565 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Oblique aerial photograph of the Durham Light Infantry Brigade Camp at Conway, Caernarvonshire, 1914 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/566 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of a group of sergeants of The Durham Light Infantry at camp, Conway, Caernarvonshire, 1914 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/567 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of the band and soldiers of the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry at Conway, Caernarvonshire, August 1914 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/568-577 | Photographs of the 6th Battalion, 1914 – 1918 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/568 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of a general view of the Durham Light Infantry Brigade Camp at Ravensworth, Gateshead, October 1914 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/569 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of a captain and non-commissioned officers of an unidentified battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, Gateshead, n.d. [1914 – 1915] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/570 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of a group of soldiers of The Durham Light Infantry, a man in civilian dress and two boys, outside a tent at camp, n.d. [ c.1914 – 1915] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/571 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of a Durham Light Infantry Brigade church parade, possibly showing the 2nd line of the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, at camp, 1915 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/572 | 1 photograph, 11 cm. x 8 cm., black and white | Photograph of soldiers, probably of the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, laying duckboards in trenches beside a sandbag shelter built against the wall of a farmhouse in France and Belgium, n.d. [ c.1915] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/573 | 1 photograph, 11 cm. x 7 cm., black and white | Photograph of soldiers erecting wooden posts outside wooden huts, France and Belgium, n.d. [1915 – 1918] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/574 | 1 photograph, 8 cm. x 11 cm., black and white | Photograph of two soldiers with rifles standing in front of a brushwood screen and the sign ‘No Trenches’, France and Belgium, [1915 – 1918] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/575 | 1 photograph, 7 cm. x 11 cm., black and white | Photograph of officer standing in front of a wooden hut, France and Belgium, n.d. [1915 – 1918] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/576 | 1 photograph, 11 cm. x 7 cm., black and white | Photograph of the brick walls of a farm building, damaged by shellfire, France and Belgium, n.d. [1915 – 1918] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/577 | 1 photograph, 11 cm. x 7 cm., black and white | Photograph of the grave of an unidentified soldier, France and Belgium, n.d. [1914 – 1918] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/578 | Photographs of the 6th Battalion, 1919 – 1939 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/578 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of a procession of clergymen and civilians walking along a street past lines of Durham Light Infantrymen, possibly the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, at Barnard Castle, n.d. [ c.1920] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/579-598 | Photographs of the 6th Battalion, 1939 – 1945 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/579 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 7 cm., black and white | Photograph of soldiers of 151st Infantry Brigade on parade for an inspection by King George VI, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, 17 January 1940 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/580 | 1 photograph, 54 cm. x 20 cm., black and white, card mounted | Group photograph of Captain Ronald Loftus Cummins and 17 Platoon, ‘D’ Company, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, probably taken in Staffordshire or Dorset, 1940 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/581 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 16 cm., black and white | Group photograph of officers and sergeants, ‘B’ Company, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Devon, 1940 Back row: C.S.M. Pallas; Sergeant Bailey; Sergeant Howarth; Company Quartermaster Sergeant Barnes Middle row: Second Lieutenant Claude Boys Stones; Captain Tim Chamberlin; Captain Dick Ovenden; Lieutenant David Rome; Second Lieutenant Roy Wiggins Front row: Sergeant Hall; Lance Sergeant Shepherd | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/582 | 1 photograph, 6 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of the countryside twenty miles from Sirte, Libya, March 1943 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/583 | 1 photograph, 10 cm. x 8 cm., black and white | Photograph of soldiers checking equipment in the desert, possibly in North Africa, n.d. [ c.1943] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/584 | 1 photograph, 16 cm. x 11 cm., black and white | Photograph of troops wading ashore from a landing craft LCI(L) on Queen beach, Sword area, Normandy, on D-Day, [6 June 1944] Copy of IWM photograph (B 5092) | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/585 | 1 photograph, 16 cm. x 12 cm., black and white | Photograph of the box girder bridge, Primosole Bridge, Sicily, n.d. [1943] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/586 | 1 photograph, 22 cm. x 20 cm., black and white | Photograph of soldiers clearing rubble on Primosole Bridge, Sicily, n.d. [1943] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/587 | 1 photograph, 16 cm. x 12 cm., black and white | Photograph of three officers, including two from The Durham Light Infantry, standing beside the memorial cairn at Primosole Bridge, Sicily, n.d. [after 1943] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/588 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of a soldier playing the bugle at an open air church service, possibly at the Primosole Bridge memorial, Sicily, n.d. [after 1943] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/589 | 1 photograph, 6 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of Captain Runciman, Quartermaster, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Augusta, Sicily, n.d. [1943] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/590 | 1 photograph, 6 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of a tent, ‘B’ Echelon, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Catania area, Sicily, n.d. [1943] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/591 | 1 photograph, 6 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of a soldier of ‘B’ Echelon [6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry], standing beside winding machinery, Syracuse, Sicily, n.d. [1943] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/592 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 6 cm., black and white | Photograph of soldiers, probably of the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, serving food from mess tins, Normandy, France, 1944 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593 | Aerial photographs of the easterly part of Gold Beach, Normandy, France, the site of the 50th Division landing on D-Day, 6 June 1944; comprising a series of nine oblique air photographs showing the beach and terrain, mounted on linen, and, on the reverse side, a series of nine aerial photographs showing the countryside south-south-east of the landing area, map sheet reference 37/18 S.E.; n.d. and 18 August 1942 These photographs were supplied to the assaulting troops for identification purposes | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(1) | Oblique air photograph of the east of Gold Beach, Normandy, France, the site of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division landing on D-Day, 6 June 1944; taken n.d. [1942 – 1944] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(2) | Oblique air photograph of the east of Gold Beach, Normandy, France, showing the area to the right of D/DLI 2/6/593(1), the site of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division landing on D-Day, 6 June 1944; taken n.d. [1942 – 1944] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(3) | Oblique air photograph of the east of Gold Beach, Normandy, France, showing the area to the right of D/DLI 2/6/593(2) and the location of map reference points 937865 and 935867, the site of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division landing on D-Day, 6 June 1944; taken n.d. [1942 – 1944] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(4) | Oblique air photograph of the east of Gold Beach, Normandy, France, showing the area to the right of D/DLI 2/6/593(3), and the location of map reference points 928868 and 925869, the site of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division landing on D-Day, 6 June 1944; taken n.d., [1942 – 1944] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(5) | Oblique air photograph of the east of Gold Beach, Normandy, France, showing the area to the right of D/DLI 2/6/593(4), and the location of map reference point 925863 and lighthouse, the site of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division landing on D-Day, 6 June 1944; taken n.d., [1942 – 1944] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(6) | Oblique air photograph of the east of Gold Beach, Normandy, France, showing the area to the right of D/DLI 2/6/593(5), and the location of map reference points 919869, 915866 and 915859, the site of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division landing on D-Day, 6 June 1944; taken n.d., [1942 – 1944] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(7) | Oblique air photograph of the east of Gold Beach, Normandy, France, showing the area to the right of D/DLI 2/6/593(6), and the location of map reference points 913866 and 910861 (quarry), the site of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division landing on D-Day, 6 June 1944; taken n.d., [1942 – 1944] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(8) | Oblique air photograph of the east of Gold Beach, Normandy, France, showing the area to the right of D/DLI 2/6/593(7), and the location of map reference points 907870 and 907863, the site of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division landing on D-Day, 6 June 1944; taken n.d., [1942 – 1944] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(9) | Oblique air photograph of the east of Gold Beach, Normandy, France, showing the area to the right of D/DLI 2/6/593(8), the site of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division landing on D-Day, 6 June 1944; taken n.d., [1942 – 1944] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(10) | Aerial photograph of Gold Beach, Normandy, France, showing the area north and east of reference point 876862, map sheet 37/18 S.E., 18 August 1942 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(11) | Aerial photograph of Gold Beach, Normandy, France, showing the area to the right of D/DLI 2/6/593(10), map sheet 37/18 S.E., 18 August 1942 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(12) | Aerial photograph of countryside adjoining Gold Beach, Normandy, France, showing the area to the right of D/DLI 2/6/593(11), map sheet 37/18 S.E., 18 August 1942 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(13) | Aerial photograph of countryside in Normandy, France, showing the area below D/DLI 2/6/593(10), map sheet 37/18 S.E., 18 August 1942 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(14) | Aerial photograph of countryside in Normandy, France, showing the area to the right of D/DLI 2/6/593(13), map sheet 37/18 S.E., 18 August 1942 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(15) | Aerial photograph of countryside in Normandy, France, showing the area to the right of D/DLI 2/6/593(14), map sheet 37/18 S.E., 18 August 1942 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(16) | Aerial photograph of countryside in Normandy, France, showing the area below D/DLI 2/6/593(13), map sheet 37/18 S.E., 18 August 1942 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(17) | Aerial photograph of countryside in Normandy, France, showing the area to the right of D/DLI 2/6/593(16), map sheet 37/18 S.E., 18 August 1942 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/593(18) | 9 photographs, 18 cm. x 9 cm., and 9 photographs, 19 cm. x 24 cm., black and white, mounted on a linen sheet | Aerial photograph of countryside in Normandy, France, showing the area to the right of D/DLI 2/6/593(17), map sheet 37/18 S.E., 18 August 1942 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/594 | 1 card, printed | Notes concerning the photographs D/DLI 2/6/593(1-18), used for the D-Day landing of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division on 6 June 1944, n.d. [1990s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/595 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white | Photograph of 4455923 Lance-Corporal Alf Bailey, Mechanical Transport Section, Headquarters Company, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Middle East Forces, 16 August n.y. [1941 – 1943] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/596 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white | Photograph of Company Sergeant-Major Robert W. Hawksworth, The Durham Light Infantry, taken in Malta, n.d. [ c.1941 – 1943] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/597 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white | Photograph of Corporal G.S. Richardson, 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, taken while serving with Twenty First Army Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, February 1945 Endorsed: notes describing the dark green dress hat and battle dress with black buttons worn only by the 6th Battalion | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/598 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 15 cm., black and white | Photograph, from the Northern Echo newspaper, of a group of 151st (Durham) Infantry Brigade officers outside Buckingham Palace, London, following an investiture ceremony, 17 March 1945 Left to right: Captain (Quartermaster) A.E. Love, M.C.; Major I.R. English, M.C.; Lieutenant-Colonel G.L. Wood, D.S.O., M.C., Major K.M. Wood, M.C.; Captain P. Hampson, M.C. and Major R.S. Loveridge, M.C. | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/599-600 | Photographs of the 6th Battalion, 1945 – 1967 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/599 | 1 photograph, 25 cm. x 20 cm., black and white | Photograph of men of the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry standing in snow, holding skis, n.d. [1963] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/600 | 1 photograph, 15 cm. x 13 cm., black and white, and 1 paper | Photograph of James Boyden, M.P. for Bishop Auckland, and Privates Peacock and Sugden, The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [1960s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/601-602 | Photographs of 6th Battalion memorials, after 1967 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/601 | 1 photograph, 13 cm. x 9 cm., colour | Photograph of the stone memorial to the men who died at Primosole Bridge, Sicily, and an unidentified onlooker, n.d. [late 20th c.] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/6/602 | Oblique aerial photograph of the area around Primosole Bridge, Sicily, and tracing paper overlay identifying the locations of the memorial, sunken road, pill box, embankment, site of stand, old road, new road, and foundations of farmhouse, 2 February 1970 (1 photograph, 25 cm. x 25 cm., black and white, and 1 paper) R ECORDS OF SERVICE OF 7TH BATTALION | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/32-32(12) | Battalion histories and scrapbooks | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/32 | 150 Years of Loyal Service: A Short History of the 582 LAA/SL Regiment R.A. (D.L.I.) T.A. from 1797 to 1947, and Programme of Events during Celebrations Week, 10th – 16th November 1947 , 1947 Includes: photographs | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/32(1) | Photograph of the old colours of The Sunderland Volunteer Infantry presented by Lady Milbanke in 1803 and now laid up in Bishopwearmouth Parish Church, copy made 1947 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/32(2) | Photograph of the King’s Colours of the 582 L.A.A./S.L. Regiment R.A. (D.L.I.) T.A., originally presented to 7th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, and the present Regimental Colours; both colours were presented by The Mayoress of Sunderland (Mrs. A.F. Young) in October 1909; copy made 1947 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/32(3) | Photograph of a painting of Major Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest, Commanding Officer of the Unit [the Sunderland Volunteer Rifle Corps] from 1859 to 1862; copy made 1947 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/32(4) | Photograph of Lieutenant Wilcox of The Sunderland Volunteer Rifle Corps, c.1862; copy made 1947 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/32(5) | Photograph of the officers (named) of the 3rd Durham (Sunderland) Rifle Volunteers, 1878; copy made 1947 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/32(6) | Facsimile of the programme of the Farewell Service to the Composite Company from the unit [3rd Volunteer Battalion The Durham Light Infantry] prior to their departure for the Boer War in 1900; copy made 1947 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/32(7) | Photograph of officers of the Unit [7th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry] while in camp in Conway, August 1914, from whence they were recalled for mobilisation; copy made 1947 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/32(8) | Photograph of a detachment from the 7th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry retrieving the colours from Bishopwearmouth church where they had reposed during the war years, December 1918; copy made 1947 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/32(9) | Photograph of officers of the 7th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry shortly after the reformation of the unit after World War 1; copy made 1947 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/32(10) | Photograph of members of the Unit during a night exercise shortly after conversion from 7th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry T.A. to 47th (The Durham Light Infantry) A.A. Battalion R.E., T.A., 1937; copy made 1947 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/32(11) | Photograph of officers of the Regiment on the occasion of the retirement of Lieutenant-Colonel T.C. Squance, O.B.E., T.D., and prior to the unit’s conversion to 112 L.A.A. Regiment R.A. (D.L.I.) T.A., 1941; copy made 1947 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/32(12) | Photograph of gun drill on the 40mm Bofors L.A.A. Gun after the reconstitution of the unit at 582 L.A.A./S.L. Regt. R.A. (D.L.I.) T.A., and (inset) Lieutenant-Colonel K.S. Brunton-Reed, M.B.E., Commanding Officer, 1947 (1 volume, card bound) PHOTOGRAPHS | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/33 | Photographs of the 3rd Durham Rifle Volunteers, 1860 – 1880 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/33 | 1 photograph, 35 cm. x 26 cm., black and white, card mounted | Group photograph of officers of the 3rd Durham Rifle Volunteer Corps (Sunderland), and the colours of the old volunteer regiment, 1867 Seated: Captain Nichols; Captain John Graham; Captain Frank Lang; Surgeon Horsley Douglas; Lieutenant-Colonel W.B. Ferguson; Captain T. Reed; Captain James Peacock; Standing: Ensign W.E. Brewis; Lieutenant W.B. Harrison; Ensign T.W. Graham; Captain J.G. Harrison | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/34-35 | Photographs of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, 1887 – 1908 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/34 | 1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of a group of soldiers of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, location unknown, n.d. [ c.1902 – 1908] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/35 | 1 photograph, 30 cm. x 25 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph of stretcher bearers of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion The Durham Light Infantry outside a medical tent at camp, n.d. [ c.1904] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/36-38 | Photographs of the 7th Battalion, 1908 – 1914 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/36 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Group photograph of scouts of the 7th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry at Conway, Caernarvonshire, n.d. [1914] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/37 | 1 photograph, 13 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of a group of non-commissioned officers of an unidentified Durham Light Infantry battalion, standing on the steps outside a public building, with a musketry shield and the battalion colours; sent from ‘Fred’, Sunderland, to Mr. H.J. Tuffs, Queen’s Avenue, Wisbech Road, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, postmark 22 May 1911 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/38 | 1 postcard, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of the late Colour Sergeant Instructor G. Shillcock, 7th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, in camp, n.d. [early 20th c.] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/39-40 | Photographs of the 7th Battalion, 1919 – 1936 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/39 | 1 photograph, 29 cm. x 14 cm., black and white | Group photograph of officers and sergeants of the 7th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [1920s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/40 | 1 photograph, 28 cm. x 20 cm., black and white, card mounted | Group photograph of the band of the 7th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [1930s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/41-44 | Photographs of the colours | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/41 | 1 photograph, 15 cm. x 21 cm., black and white | Photograph of the remains of the old King’s Colour of the Sunderland Volunteer Infantry, c.1800; taken after 1919 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/42 | 1 photograph, 16 cm. x 21 cm., black and white | Photograph of the old Regimental Colour of the Sunderland Volunteer Infantry, c.1800, laid up in Bishopwearmouth; taken after 1919 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/43 | 1 photograph, 20 cm. x 16 cm., black and white | Photograph of the King’s Colour of 7th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [after 1919] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/7/44 | 1 photograph, 20 cm. x 16 cm., black and white | Photograph of the Regimental Colour of the 7th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [after 1919] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/197 | RECORDS OF SERVICE OF 8TH BATTALION 4th Volunteer Battalion, 1887 – 1908 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/197 | 1 booklet, printed | Rules and Regulations for the 4th Volunteer Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, by Lieutenant-Colonel J. Humble, V.D., commanding, 1903 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/198-200 | 8th Battalion, 1939 – 1945 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/198 | 1 booklet, printed | From Coalfield to Battlefield: The Road to Dunkirk Remembered, containing the recollections of four Chester-le-Street men of the 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, who went to war in 1939, compiled by Gavin John Purdon, 1983 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/199 | 2 papers, duplicated | Copy account, from WO 373/61, of the escape of 4388769 Private J. Waller, 4th Battalion, Green Howards, 4457717 Private W.J. Roberts, The Durham Light Infantry, and 843466 Corporal Bainbridge, 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, from Koenitz Prisoner of War Camp, Chojnice, Poland, on 21 September 1940, 13 August 1941 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/200 | 1 paper, duplicated | Copy newspaper report, from the Sunderland Echo, of the escape of Bill Roberts and Tony Bainbridge of the 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, from Stalag XXA, Koenitz Prisoner of War Camp, Chojnice, Poland, on 21 September 1940, 13 December 1991 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/201-203 | 8th Battalion, 1945 – 1967 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/201 | 1 file, typescript | Standing orders for war, 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [c. 1951]; amended to 1953 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/202 | 1 file, typescript | ‘Q’ Administration Instructions, 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, by Captain C. Flannigan, Quartermaster, 1951 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/203 | 1 file | Part II and Part III Orders – Other Ranks, 8th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, 3 January – 31 March 1967 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/204-206 | COLOURS OF 8TH BATTALION | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/204 | 1 card, printed | Menu of the lunch held at Durham Castle on the occasion of the presentation of new colours to the 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry by H.R.H. Princess Alexandra, Colonel-in-Chief of The Durham Light Infantry, 27 July 1963 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/205 | 1 paper, duplicated, colour | Copy of the approved design, from the Royal College of Arms, of the regimental colour which was presented to the 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry on 27 July 1963, 5 September 1961; copy made c.2000 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/206 | Copy of the approved design, from the Royal College of Arms, of the Queen’s colour which was presented to the 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry on 27 July 1963, 5 September 1961; copy made c.2000 (1 paper, duplicated, colour) PHOTOGRAPHS | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/207 | Photographs of 1st Administrative Battalion, Durham Rifle Volunteers, 1860 – 1880 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/207 | 1 photograph, 17 cm. x 14 cm., black and white | Photograph of a group of officers of the 1st Administrative Battalion of the Durham Rifle Volunteers (7th Durham City Rifle Volunteer Corps), including Captain Christopher Rowlandson, centre, seated on steps, [outside Durham Castle], c.1866 – 1877 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/208 | Photographs of 8th Battalion, 1919 – 1939 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/208 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 13 cm., black and white | Photograph of the Mechanical Transport Section, 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Alnwick, Northumberland, 1938 Includes: J. Robinson, on left | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/209-213 | Photographs of 8th Battalion, 1945 – 1967 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/209 | 1 photograph, 20 cm. x 15 cm., black and white, card mounted | Group photograph of ten officers of the 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Keightley Training Company, Yorkshire, n.d. [1945] Includes: back row: Lieutenant Archie W. Bark M.M.; Captain H.E. Cyril B. Catford; Captain R.C. O’Connor; Captain W.H.W. (Bert) Jalland; Lieutenant Ernest Y. Cousins front row: Captain Philip G. (Pluto) Hampson M.C.; Major R. Ian Pitt; Major Ian R. English M.C.; Captain (Quartermaster) W. George Stray M.B.E.; Major Peter J. Lewis M.C. | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/210 | 1 photograph, 22 cm. x 17 cm., black and white | Group photograph of officers and sergeants of the 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Barnard Castle, 1951 Similar to D/DLI 2/8/178 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/211 | 1 photograph, 20 cm. x 15 cm., black and white | Group photograph of ‘A’ Company, [8th Battalion] The Durham Light Infantry, and Captain Mulhall, centre, holding the Champion Company Cup, n.d. [1950s] Includes: Colour Sergeant Dunn, Sergeant Moore, Corporal J. Grave, Private T. Walker and Private R. McIlwraith | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/212 | 1 photograph, 30 cm. x 21 cm., colour | Group photograph of officers and men of the 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, probably taken at an annual camp, n.d. [1960s] Includes: front row, centre, Captain D. MacDonald | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/213 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 16 cm., black and white | Photograph of soldiers of the 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry in dinghies on a lake, taken during training in the Lake District, Cumberland, 1965 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/214-9/373 | Photographs of 8th Battalion reunions, after 1967 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/8/214 | Photograph of former officers of the 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, probably taken at a reunion meeting, September 1973 Left to right: Major Brian Snaith; Padre F. Blackburn; Major Jackson; Major Gill Harris; unidentified; Colonel H. Sell; and unidentified (1 photograph, 17 cm. x 12 cm., black and white) RECORDS OF SERVICE OF 9TH BATTALION Battalion histories and scrapbooks Records collected by Harry Moses for his history of the 9th Battalion, The Gateshead Ghurkhas, 2001 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/308 | 1 paper, duplicated | Photocopy of the baptism entry of Roland Boys Bradford, in the Witton Park parish register, 23 March 1892 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/309 | 22 papers | Photocopy of the diary of 5293002 Private/Acting Sergeant Edwin Morrell, Army Service Corps (formerly 7th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry), attached to 151 Infantry Brigade Headquarters, January 1915 – 11 November 1918 Morrell served from 5 September 1914 to 20 March 1919 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/310 | 36 papers, duplicated | Photocopy of articles by Dr. Stephen D. Badsey, entitled: The Trench Raid at Cherisy, 15 September 1917, n.d. [20th c.] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/311 | 1 file | Frontline, the newspaper of the Gateshead and Newcastle Branch of the D.L.I. Association, ninth year, issue 34, 24 November 1996 Includes: comments of a British General on the courage of the Faithful Durhams in March 1918 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/312-313 | 6 papers | Letters from Mrs. Peggy Thompson, 22 Flexbury Gardens, Harlow Green, Low Fell, Gateshead, to Harry Moses, concerning four brothers, John Morris (born 15 February 1892), George Conder Morris (born 20 May 1893), James Morris (born 20 May 1893) and Ralph Spence Morris (born 4 September 1897), all of Gateshead, who served in the First World War, n.d. [1990s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/314 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white, laminated | Copy of a photograph of Sergeant (later Regimental Sergeant-Major) John ‘Jack’ Morris, M.M., 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [1914 – 1918] Sergeant Morris served in the 12th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry (1st Tyneside Scottish) during the Second World War | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/315 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white, laminated | Copy of a photograph of Regimental Sergeant-Major John ‘Jack’ Morris, M.M., 12th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [1939 – 1949] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/316 | 1 paper, duplicated | Copy letter from Harold Scott-Batey to his fiancée Renee, concerning his return from Dunkirk, France, 3 June 1940 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/317 | 4 papers, duplicated | Copy letter, and transcript, from the Rev. Carpenter, C.F. attached 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, to Mrs. Mohn, concerning the death of her son Private Eric Mohn, one of the gun crew during the Wakenshaw V.C. action, 22 October 1942 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/318 | 1 paper, duplicated | Copy citation for the award of the Distinguished Service Order to T. Major Herbert John Mogg, commanding 9th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, June – July 1944, for the command of the battalion from 13 June 1944; n.d. [1944] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/319 | 6 papers | Notes concerning the war service of Battery Sergeant-Major Jim Black, 364 Battery, [ ], Royal Artillery, from 1945 to 1946 at a camp for displaced persons in Truppen Ubungsplatz, Germany, and in Palestine, n.d. [1990s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/320 | 3 papers | Letter from Tony Colgan to Harry Moses containing reminiscences of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry during the Sicily campaign in 1943, 1997 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/321 | 11 papers | Letter from Corporal R. ‘Bob’ Cork, 120 Shepherds Walk, Hythe, Kent, to H. Moses, enclosing an account of his service with the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry in Sicily and North West Europe from July 1943 to May 1945, November 1995 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/322 | 10 papers | Letter from Corporal R. ‘Bob’ Cork, 120 Shepherds Walk, Hythe, Kent, to H. Moses, enclosing further memories of his service with the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [1995] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/323 | 3 papers | Letter from Private J. Everett, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, to H. Moses concerning his service at Mareth, Tunisia, and Alamein, Egypt, during the Second World War, n.d. [ c.2000] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/324 | 1 paper, duplicated | Copy letter from Sergeant S. Ferguson, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry to an unidentified addressee, concerning the capture of Stink Alley, Primosole Bridge [incomplete], n.d. [after 1945] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/325 | 7 papers | Letter from J. Galbraith, ex 7th Armoured Division, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, to Harry Moses, containing reminiscences of his war service, from 1944 to 1948, n.d. [1990s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/326 | 1 paper | Letter from Major Roy Griffiths, ‘Pegasus’, Stag Leys, Ashstead, Surrey, to H. Moses concerning information for the history of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 16 November 1995 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/327 | 1 file | Notes by Major Roy Griffiths concerning his service with the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry from July 1943 to late 1946, in Sicily and North West Europe; copy extract from A Short History – 7th Armoured Division, June 1943 – July 1945 concerning Operation ‘Blackcock’ in January 1945; and copy extract from the D.L.I. Regimental Journal concerning 9th Battalion news, 1946 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/328 | Miniature photographs of the pantomime ‘Robin Hood’, performed by the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, under the direction of Lieutenant John Arnold, on board a Dutch cruise ship on the return voyage from Algiers to Greenock, Renfrewshire, following the Sicily campaign, 1943: | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/328(1) | Photograph of the cast of the pantomime ‘Robin Hood’, performed by the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, under the direction of Lieutenant John Arnold, on board a Dutch cruise ship on the return voyage from Algiers to Greenock, Renfrewshire, following the Sicily campaign, 1943 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/328(2) | 2 photographs, 4 cm. x 2 cm., black and white | Photograph of two actors and a musician from the cast of the pantomime ‘Robin Hood’, performed by the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, under the direction of Lieutenant John Arnold, on board a Dutch cruise ship on the return voyage from Algiers to Greenock, Renfrewshire, following the Sicily campaign, 1943 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/329 | 6 papers | Notes by Sergeant Jim Hawkins concerning his service with the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry from 1940 to 1942, his capture near Tobruk, during the North Africa campaign, and his time as a prisoner of war in Italy and Germany from 1943 to 1945, n.d. [1990s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/330-331 | 10 papers | Letters from Jim Hawkins, [formerly 4037297 Sergeant] 19 Cheddar Close, Duston, Northamptonshire, to Harry Moses, describing his service with the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry from May 1940 to 1945, including his experiences as a prisoner of war after capture at Mersa Matruh, Egypt, in 1942, n.d. [1990s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/332 | 1 paper | Sketch of bren carriers crossing a bridge over the River Simetto, Sicily, c.1943, by Sergeant Jim Hawkins, n.d. [c.2000] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/333 | 3 papers | Letter from Major Jim L. Kennedy, formerly of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, to Harry Moses, describing his service as adjutant to the 9th Battalion during the Sicily campaign in 1943, 19 January 2000 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/334 | 1 booklet | Standing orders for war, 151 (Durham) Infantry Brigade, March 1944 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/335 | 11 papers | Alamein: The Battle, an unpublished autobiography by Major Jim L. Kennedy, describing his service with the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry in North Africa from October 1942 to July 1943, n.d. [1990s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/336 | 6 papers | Notes by Major Jim L. Kennedy concerning the 9th Battalion and Private Adam Wakenshaw in the Alamein campaign, Egypt, in 1942, n.d. [1990s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337 | Copies of photographs from the album of Major Jim L. Kennedy, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry: | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(1) | Photograph of Regimental Sergeant-Major Kit Armstrong, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(2) | Photograph of Captain George L. Wood, M.C., Captain Geoff Beatty, M.C., and Major W. John R. Scott, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(3) | Photograph of Gordon [Worrall] and John Willy [Robinson], 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, cooking in the desert, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(4) | Photograph of Gordon [Worrall], 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, seated on the turret of an Italian tank, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(5) | Photograph of a pan of bully and biscuit fry in the desert, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(6) | Photograph of Gordon Worrall’s quarters in the desert, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(7) | Photograph of Gordon Worrall’s personnel carrier and driver, in the desert, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(8) | Photograph view across the desert, captioned: first 3 inch mortar bomb from a carrier, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(9) | Photograph of Gordon Worrall at an observation post, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(10) | Photograph of a crashed Messerschmitt aeroplane in the desert, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(11) | Photograph of Gordon Worrall writing a letter in the shadow of his map case, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(12) | Photograph of J.L. Kennedy posing by a Messerschmitt aeroplane, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(13) | Photograph of Sam Hill, Royal Engineers, in a commando vehicle, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(14) | Photograph of Gordon Worrall on patrol, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(15) | Photograph of Brigadier J.E.S. Percy, D.S.O., M.C., on reconnaissance, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(16) | Photograph of soldiers of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry during a meal pause on patrol, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(17) | Photograph of soldiers preparing a Bren gun for action, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(18) | Photograph of vehicles in the desert preparing for action, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(19) | Photograph of a two-pounder infantry anti-tank gun, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(20) | Photograph of Dennis Hurst, Motor Transport Officer, from New Zealand, at the wheel of a jeep, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(21) | Photograph of Gordon Worrall, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(22) | Photograph of J.L. Kennedy, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(23) | Photograph of Gordon Worrall and Jim Kennedy, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, on holiday in Alexandria, Egypt, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(24) | Photograph of an unidentified soldier, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(25) | Photograph of an unidentified officer, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(26) | Photograph of an officer of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, captioned: Cap ‘a la Mickie’, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(27) | Photograph of the adjutant, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(28) | Photograph of Captain Geoff Beatty, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(29) | Photograph of two soldiers, Stone and ‘Porky’ Blezzard, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(30) | Photograph of an unidentified soldier, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(31) | Photograph of an unidentified officer, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(32) | Photograph of vehicles moving across the desert, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(33) | Photograph of the 6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry moving into action, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(34) | Photograph of a sign for water in the desert at Daba, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(35) | Photograph of a military cemetery, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(36) | Photograph of a German military cemetery, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(37) | Photograph of a military cemetery, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(38) | Photograph of a long barrelled artillery gun in the desert, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(39) | Photograph of an Italian artillery gun in the desert, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(40) | Photograph of German prisoners of war taken by the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry at Alamein, Egypt, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(41) | Photograph of prisoners of war taken by the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry at Alamein, Egypt, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(42) | Photograph of transport vehicles at a wadi in the desert, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(43) | Photograph of German aircraft wreckage, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(44) | Photograph of a road through the desert, North Africa, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(45) | Photograph of the front cover of Crusader, the Eighth Army Weekly magazine, n.d. [1942] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(46) | Photograph of officers of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, standing in front of a steam locomotive, Sicily, n.d. [1943] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(47) | Photograph of officers of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, standing in front of a steam locomotive, Sicily, n.d. [1943] | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/337(48) | 13 papers, duplicated | Photograph of officers of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, standing in front of a steam locomotive, Sicily, n.d. [1943 Left to right: George Blaydon; [ ] Cooper; Dick English; Brigadier Senior; Arnold Lincoln; Jake Duffers | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/338 | 1 file | Frontline, the newsletter of the Gateshead and Newcastle Branch of the Durham Light Infantry Association, sixth year, issue 21, 25 July 1993 Includes: the diary of Ernest Kerens, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 1942 – 1945, part 2, and the story of Primosole Bridge | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/339 | 3 papers | Letter from Ron Porter, 86 Symmons Street, Waun Wen, Swansea, Glamorgan, to H. Moses, concerning his memories of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry in action at Lingevres, Normandy, France, June 1944, 17 February 1996 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/340 | 1 paper | Letter from Ron Porter, 86 Symmons Street, Waun Wen, Swansea, Glamorgan, to H. Moses, concerning his service with the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry in North West Europe in 1944, including D-Day, 21 January 1997 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/341 | 1 file, duplicated | Photocopy of notes entitled ‘Jim Ratcliffe and the 9th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, July 1943 – November 1946’, n.d. [1990s] Ratcliffe, formerly in the Royal Regiment, served with ‘C’ Company, 9th Battalion. His reminiscences cover service in Sicily, England, and the North West Europe campaign, from D-Day to demobilisation in Germany | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/342 | 15 papers | The Young and the Reckless – A Soldier’s Story, an account of the Second World War experiences of Eric ‘Bill’ Sykes, who served in the 70th (Young Soldiers) Battalion The Durham Light Infantry and the 7th (Light Infantry) Battalion The Parachute Regiment from 1942 to 1949; and papers concerning the 50th anniversary of D-Day celebrations and biographical notes, 1994 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/343 | 4 papers | An account of the Second World War experiences of Eric ‘Bill’ Sykes, 11 November 1999 Eric Sykes served in The Durham Light Infantry from 27 January to 8 September 1943 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/344 | 7 papers | An account by Eric ‘Bill’ Sykes of his service with the Parachute Regiment, from September 1943 to October 1949, 11 November 1999 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/345 | 1 photograph, 13 cm. x 8 cm., black and white, paper mounted | Photograph of 17 Platoon, ‘C’ Company, 70th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Westwick Camp, Barnard Castle, June 1943 Back row: T. English; Sykes; Dodds; Peers; Willons; Johnson; Robson; Reece; Bage; Trotter, Gent Centre row: Badger; Thornton; Ridley; Middleton; Kell; James; Brown; Robinson; Ward; Hill; Gaffney; Hicks Front row: Laing; Lance-Corporal Potts; Lance-Corporal Hall; Sergeant Aveire; Company Sergeant-Major Thornton; Lieutenant Perriam; Captain McClellan; Colour Sergeant Hunter; Sergeant Green; Corporal Fawcett; Lance-Corporal Parry; Robson Sitting: Dawson; Bush; O’Lone; Pinkney; Clayton; Ingledew; Laverick; Dodds; Wilkinson; Guy | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/346 | 1 paper, duplicated | Copy photograph of three soldiers of 17 Platoon ‘C’ Company, 70th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [1943] Left to right: Sykes; Dawson, Ward | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/347 | 10 papers | Letter from Donald S. Taylor, M.C., 6 Stonefield Avenue, Easingwold, Yorkshire, to H. Moses concerning his service as a lieutenant in the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry from July 1943 to October 1945, in Sicily and North West Europe, 7 October 1995 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/348 | 11 papers | Letter from Donald S. Taylor, M.C., 6 Stonefield Avenue, Easingwold, Yorkshire, to H. Moses, concerning further details of his service with the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry from 1943 to 1945, 11 March 1996 Includes: copy photographs of Field Marshal Montgomery at a medal presentation ceremony in Berlin, Germany, 1945 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/349 | 2 papers | Letter from H.J.F. Taylor, 1 Hills Close, Corpusty, Norfolk, to H. Moses, concerning his service as a lieutenant with the 8th and 9th Battalions The Durham Light Infantry in June 1943, n.d. [2001] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/350 | 15 papers | ‘War experiences with the 9th Battalion, D.L.I., June 1942 – December 1943’, by Lieutenant W.S. White, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, concerning Alamein, Egypt, and Mareth, Tunisia, n.d. [late 20th c.] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/351 | 2 papers | Letter from Major Ken Wood, 4 Jesmond Park Court, Jesmond Park East, Newcastle upon Tyne, to Harry Moses, concerning the 9th Battalion in France in 1940, 26 July 1997 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/352 | 4 papers | Notes by Major Ken Wood, concerning Private Adam Wakenshaw, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, and the action at Gazala, Libya, in 1942, n.d. [1990s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/353 | 1 booklet and 2 papers, printed | Past-officers’ address book of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry (T.A.), n.d. [ post 1945] Includes: amendments sheets to 1953 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/354 | 3 papers | Letter from Major A.D. Scott, 17th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (9 D.L.I.) to H. Moses, concerning events in 17 Para. in the 1960s, 2000 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/355 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Postcard photograph of Durham Light Infantrymen at a church parade, Rothbury, Northumberland, 1910 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/356 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of Durham Light Infantrymen lined up in front of tents at camp, Rothbury, Northumberland, 1910 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/357 | 1 photograph, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white | Photograph of fifteen unidentified soldiers, probably of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, taken at camp, n.d. [ c.1914] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/358 | 1 photograph, 18 cm. x 11 cm., black and white, and 1 paper | Copy photograph of officers of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry at annual camp, 1920 Front row: Colonel Henderson, third from right; Major Crouch, second from right Back row: Captain Hugh Swinburne, first left; Captain (Quartermaster) Joey Porter, centre; and Captain James Scott, Royal Army Medical Corps, third from right | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/359 | 1 photograph, 10 cm. x 15 cm., black and white | Copy photograph showing Captain Scott, M.C., and Bars, medical officer of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry from 1914 to 1940, centre back row, n.d. [1920] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/360 | 1 photograph, 18 cm. x 13 cm., black and white | Group photograph of the bugles of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Catterick, Yorkshire, 1930 Includes: Bugler J.A. Maddison, seated behind drum on extreme left, also Major Long; Band Major Borthwick; Lance-Sergeant N. Dick; Lance-Corporal R. Richardson; Bugler W. Bird, and Sergeant McCluskey | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/361 | 1 photograph, 13 cm. x 8 cm., black and white | Copy photograph of officers of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 151 Brigade, British Expeditionary Force, Souge le Ganelon, France, February 1940 Left to right: Lieutenant W.J.R. Scott; Lieutenant R.H. Forbes; Lieutenant R. Milnes; Captain R. Rutherford, Medical Officer | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/362 | 1 photograph, 13 cm. x 8 cm., black and white | Photograph of Private T. Thompson, 1st Battalion and 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 19 July 1940 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/363 | 1 photograph, 18 cm. x 13 cm., black and white | Copy of a photograph of soldiers around a water cart, Cyprus, 1941 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/364 | 1 photograph, 13 cm. x 8 cm., black and white | Photograph of officers of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, taken at the ‘New Zealand’ Box, Alamein Line, Egypt, 21 October 1942 Endorsed: ‘Taken the day Arnold [ ] joined Battalion. Arnold identified by arrow (left). Micky Medway in light shirt to Arnold’s right. Gordon Worrall in front of Arnold. Rear row, 4th, 3rd and 2nd from right, respectively: Lt-Col. Freddie Clark, Major W. ‘Big Bill’ Robinson; (rank unknown) George Hill (Signals Officer). Although inscribed ‘all officers’, several were not actually included for various reasons’ | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/365 | 1 photograph, 18 cm. x 13 cm., black and white | Copy of a photograph of soldiers of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry at Mareth, Egypt, March 1943 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/366 | 1 photograph, 24 cm. x 18 cm., black and white | Photograph of officers seated on camels, including Captain W.J. Arnold, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, Cairo, Egypt, 15 May 1943 Left to right: Captain W.J. Arnold, Motor Transport Officer, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry; Lieutenant Dennis Hurst and Lieutenant Cecil [unknown] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/367 | 1 photograph, 10 cm. x 15 cm., black and white | Copy photograph of Captain R.H. Forbes, M.C., T.D., 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 1944 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/368 | 1 photograph, 25 cm. x 17 cm., black and white | Photograph of soldiers of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry running through burning ground, at St. Joost, Holland, during the North West Europe campaign, 1945 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/369 | 1 photograph, 18 cm. x 13 cm., black and white | Copy of a photograph of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry in attack at Bakehoven and Dieteren, Holland, 1945 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/370 | 1 photograph, 9 cm. x 12 cm., black and white | Copy photograph of Major John L. Williams, 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 1945 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/371 | 13 papers | Copy list of photographs of The Durham Light Infantry, Second World War, in the Imperial War Museum, London, annotated by H. Moses, n.d. [1990s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/372 | 1 photograph, 21 cm. x 14 cm., colour | Photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel Gee, ex-9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, from 1917 to 1918 adjutant to Roland Boys Bradford, taken at the D.L.I. Museum, 1994 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/373 | 1 photograph, 15 cm. x 10 cm., colour | Photograph of the memorial book in Hermies Cemetery, France, showing the entry for Brigadier-General Roland Boys Bradford, V.C., M.C., taken 3 July 2000 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/374-375 | 9th Battalion, 1914 – 1918 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/374 | 1 paper | Christmas card of ‘B’ Company, 9th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, drawn by Gerald Palmer, December 1915 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/375 | 1 card, printed | Christmas card of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, containing a drawing of an infantryman in the Great War, 1914 – 1918, n.d. [mid 20th c.] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376-376(18) | 9th Battalion, 1939 – 1945 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376 | Copies of maps from the war diary of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, January – December 1943, held in The National Archives, reference no. WO 169/10205: | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(1) | Artillery fire plan, 31 October 1942 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(2) | Map of Egypt and Cyrenaica, Sheet 1: Bengasi, November 1942 Scale: 1:250,000 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(3) | Map of Egypt and Cyrenaica, Sheet 2, Derna, October 1942 Scale: 1:250,000 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(4) | Map of Egypt and Cyrenaica, Sheet 10: Antelat, October 1942 Scale: 1:250,000 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(5) | Map of Tunisia, sheet 4[3]: Enfidaville, April 1943 Scale: 1:50,000 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(6) | Map of Tunisia, sheet 4[3]: Enfidaville, April 1943 Scale: 1:50,000 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(7) | Map of Tunisia, sheet 43: Enfidaville, n.d. April 1943 Scale: 1:50,000 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(8) | Map of Palestine: Aquaba, May 1943 Scale: 1:100,000 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(9) | Map of Italy, Sheet 262 I:Taormina, 2nd edition, June 1943 Scale: 1:50,000 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(10) | Map of Italy, Sheet 262 II: Riposto, May 1943 Scale: 1:50,000 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(11) | Map of Italy, Sheet 262 III: Monte Etna, 2nd edition, May 1943 Scale: 1:50,000 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(12) | Map of Italy, Sheet 270 IV: Catania, 2nd edition, June 1943 Scale: 1:50,000 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(13) | Naval collation map of Italy, Catania (North) with defences overprint, 17 June 1943 Scale: 1:25,000 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(14) | Naval collation map of Italy, sheet 4: Catania, edition III with defences overprint, 17 June 1943 Scale: 1:25,000 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(15) | Naval collection map of Italy, sheet 5: Lentini, edition III, with defences overprint, 17 June 1943 Scale: 1:25,000 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(16) | Naval collation map of Italy, sheet 7: Floridia, edition III, with defences overprint, 17 June 1943 Scale: 1:25,000 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(17) | Naval collation map of Italy, sheet 9: Noto, with defences overprint, 17 June 1943 Scale: 1:25,000 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/376(18) | Naval collation map of Italy, sheet 10: Avola, with defences overprint, 17 June 1943 Scale: 1:25,000 (22 papers, black and white and colour, duplicated) PHOTOGRAPHS | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/377 | Photographs of 5th Volunteer Battalion, 1887 – 1908 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/377 | 1 photograph, 17 cm. x 11 cm., black and white, card mounted | Photograph of six sergeants, Durham Light Infantry volunteers, probably of the 5th Volunteer Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, in camp, taken by W. Watson, 20 Burney Villas, Mount Pleasant, Gateshead, n.d. [1890s] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/378-380(4) | Photographs of 9th Battalion, 1914 – 1918 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/378 | 1 photograph, 41 cm. x 36 cm., black and white | Group photograph of officers of the 2/9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, n.d. [1914 – 1918] Front row: [ ] White; J.W. Porter; Captain H.E. Quinn; Major and Adjutant W. de G. Martin; Lieutenant-Colonel Frank R. Simpson; Captain W. Bagnall; Captain Claude F.B. Simpson; Captain W. Swan; Chaplain J.E.S. Harrison Back row: George Alexander; James [ ] Brodie; A. Rutherford; H.P. Tozer; W.R. King; E. Newton; A.N. Vaughan; N.M. Woodall; A.H. Whiteley; C.L. Humble; J.A. Landon; F.W. Cranmer The photograph mount is signed by several other officers who do not appear on the photograph | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/379 | 1 photograph, 24 cm. x 20 cm., black and white | Copy photograph of signallers of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 2nd line, in camp, 1915 | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/380 | Sheet containing four aerial photographs of the raiding party at Cherisy, France, by the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, on 15 September 1917 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/380(1) | Aerial photograph, captioned: Shells bursting on German front line, raiding party leaving our front line, Cherisy, France, 15 September 1917 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/380(2) | Aerial photograph, captioned: Barrage lifted, Cherisy, France, 15 September 1917 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/380(3) | Aerial photograph, captioned: First Men In, Cherisy, France, 15 September 1917 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/380(4) | 1 paper, 45 cm. x 36 cm., black and white | Aerial photograph, captioned: Front line taken – going forward to next objective, Cherisy, France, 15 September 1917 Endorsed: 70 Territorial Force Depot, Gateshead | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/381 | Photographs of 9th Battalion, 1939 – 1945 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/381 | 1 photograph, 8 cm. x 6 cm., black and white | Photograph of the anti-tank gun used by Private Adam Wakenshaw, V.C., at El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt, n.d. [1944 – 1945] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/382 | Photographs of 17th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, 1948 – 1967 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/382 | 1 photograph, 38 cm. x 30 cm., black and white, card mounted | Group photograph of officers of the 17th Battalion Parachute Regiment (9 D.L.I.) at the presentation of colours, Brancepeth Castle [duplicate of D/DLI 8/1/32(1)], 4 October 1952 Back row: Capt (Q.M.) J.H. Dought; Lieut. W.J. Ross; Lieut. A. Thompson; Capt. H.L. Carey; 2/Lieut. T.R. Short; Lieut. W.D. Charnley; Capt. J.P. Anderson, R.A.M.C. Front row: Major J.K. Lunn; Major C.S. Trewhitt; Major I.N.N. Beadle, M.C. (Second in Command); Colonel Sir Thomas Bradford, D.S.O., D.C.L., D.L.; H.R.H. The Princess Royal; Lieut. Colonel R.B. Humphreys, (Commanding Officer); Major J.H. Thorpe; Major K.A. Westcott, T.D.; Capt. J.G. Burkmar (Adjutant) | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/383 | Photographs of 9th Battalion memorials | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/9/383 | Photograph of the 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry memorial wall plaque commemorating the faithful service of Brevet-Colonel Sir Frank R. Simpson, Bart., C.B., and Brevet-Colonel Andrew Henderson, C.M.G., T.D., D.L., no location, n.d. [late 20th c.] (1 photograph, 15 cm. x 10 cm., colour) RECORDS OF SERVICE OF 10TH BATTALION | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/10/14 | 10th Battalion, 1914 – 1918 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/10/14 | Operation Order No. 65 of 43rd Light Infantry Brigade concerning the Fourth Army attack on the enemy’s defences between Morval and Martinpuich with the object of seizing Morval, Les Boeufs, Guedecourt and Flers, France, in which the tank was to be used for the first time, 13 September 1916 (5 papers, typescript) RECORDS OF SERVICE OF 12TH BATTALION | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/12/3 | 12th and 13th Battalion Reunions | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/12/3 | Invitation to the 50th Anniversary Reunion Dinner to celebrate the formation of the 12th and 13th Battalions The Durham Light Infantry, at the County Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne, 31 October 1964 (1 card, printed, colour) RECORDS OF SERVICE OF 18TH BATTALION | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/18/113 | 18th Battalion, 1914 – 1919 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/18/113 | Notice from George H. Procter, mayor of Durham, to discharged or demobilized officers, warrant officers and men of the 18th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (Pals), inviting them to parade with the cadre of the 18th Battalion in Durham on 27 May for the purpose of depositing the King’s Colour in the cathedral, 24 May 1919 (1 poster, 37 cm. x 51 cm., printed, card mounted) PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/18/114-119 | Postcards of the ‘ Durham Pals’, 18th Battalion, 1914 – 1918 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/18/114 | 1 card, 14 cm. x 9 cm., colour printed | Postcard illustration, by C.T. Howard, of a lion crushing an eagle, captioned: The Durham Pals ‘Fight to a Finish!’ , n.d. [1914 – 1918] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/18/115 | 1 card 9 cm. x 14 cm., colour printed | Postcard illustration of a Prussian cavalryman reining in his horse, captioned: For goodness sake Halt! der Durhams are koming, n.d. [1914 – 1918] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/18/116 | 1 card, 9 cm. x 14 cm., colour printed | Postcard illustration of a Prussian officer hiding in a wooden barrel, captioned: If der Durhams haf gone by, den I kan kom out, n.d. [1914 – 1918] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/18/117 | 1 card, 9 cm. x 14 cm., colour printed | Postcard illustration, by C.T. Howard, of a British infantryman advancing with fixed bayonet against the background of a union flag, captioned: Don’t be Alarmed, the Durham Pals are on guard, n.d. [1914 – 1918] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/18/118 | 1 card, 9 cm. x 14 cm., colour printed | Postcard illustration, by C.T. Howard, of a British infantry officer stroking a horse’s head, captioned: The Durham Pals are Ready!, n.d. [1914 – 1918] | ||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/18/119 | Postcard illustration, by Lawrence Colborne, of German army officers lying on the ground in disarray, captioned: We’d nefer haf kom if we’ d known der Durhams vas here!, n.d. [1914 – 1918] (1 card, 9 cm. x 14 cm., colour printed) RECORDS OF SERVICE OF 19TH BATTALION | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/19/4 | 19th Battalion, 1915 – 1918 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/19/4 | Army message form from Brigadier-General [ ] to the 19th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry concerning the signing of the armistice, and arrangements for holding the line reached at 11 a.m., and for billeting and non-fraternisation with the enemy, 11 November 1918 (1 paper, card mounted) PHOTOGRAPHS OF 20TH BATTALION | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/20/11 | 20th Battalion, 1915 – 1918 | |||||||||||||
| D/DLI 2/20/11 | 1 photograph, 18 cm. x 23 cm., black and white | Photograph of Major-General Sir Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford, Officer Commanding 41st Division, n.d. 1915 – 1918 The 20th Battalion was in the 41st Infantry Division from 1915 to 1918 |
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