The men who were the first to die when war became terrifyingly real
THE country’s only First World War battlefield has this week been awarded £40,000 for the restoration of its concrete gun battery beside which…
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MEMORIES: Remembering Harry Moses and the boys of Bede who went to war and never came back
THE funeral of the Durham Light Infantry historian Harry Moses was held this week. Harry wrote about the regiment in the first and second world wars, and its service in Korea in the 1950s. When he died on January 30, aged 90, he was nearing completion of a book on its earliest days as the 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot. He also recorded the stories of countless veterans for the Imperial War Museum’s oral history project. “Harry was everything to the DLI,” said Major Chris Lawton, chairman of the DLI Association. “He was a mega-part of the regiment.” Harry came from Tow Law a...
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