A private from the Durham Light Infantry poses for the camera. Two “chums” battalions from the DLI fought on the calamitous first day of the Somme on 1 July 1916.

D.L.I. badge sewn on chinese silk at Shanghai, Tiensin. John Robert Hood was a bandsman in the Durham Light Infantry. It surprised me when I was a lot younger, how a bandsman could serve in so ...

North East MP Roberta Blackman-Woods has hailed the surviving veterans of the Second World War. She presented them with the Veterans' Badges in her Durham City constituency after running a ...

Durham Light Infantry silver falls under ... An appeal for a DLI memorial in Durham City, ... “I have bought got some silverware from 68th Regiment of Foot and some silver with the DLI badge.

As the doors of the Durham Light Infantry Museum close for the final time, campaigners fear that the heroic efforts of North East soldiers will soon be forgotten. The rows upon rows of uniforms ...

Durham County Council has unveiled an installation to celebrate the past and future of the Durham Light Infantry (DLI) Museum and give the venue a "new life". A piece of industrial artwork ...

Harry Sanson served with the Durham Light Infantry and was actually one of the buglers who played at the end of the Korean War in 1953. That moment is captured by a new statue in Durham's market ...

The Durham Light Infantry (DLI) collection included a solid silver punch bowl, claret jugs and posy vases. The 132 lots up for sale in Newcastle were expected to fetch up to £60,000, but actually ...

The Durham Light Infantry Museum in Durham will close on the 1st of April despite protests. People gathered outside County Hall this morning before a council meeting. The protestors said they were ...

D.L.I. badge sewn on chinese silk at Shanghai, Tiensin. John Robert Hood was a bandsman in the Durham Light Infantry. It surprised me when I was a lot younger, how a bandsman could serve in so ...