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Offline Unclehefty

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Durham Light Infantry
« on: Thursday 27 September 12 10:42 BST (UK) »
One thing that irks me (although it shouldn't) is the absence of photographs from our past - its particularly galling when the immense resources of the Beeb always seem to be able to unearth that long forgotten picture to invoke feelings of nostalgia (I just wish we all that their resources).  However, I am looking to see if any pictures survive from the intake by the DLI during the first year of the 'Great War'.  My reason being that my Granddad and great uncles were killed or wounded at Ypres in 1915 and all that appears to remain are their names on the Menin Gate.

Does anyone know a a photographic archive - I've tried the DLI elements of the Northumberland archive to no avail.

I do have a picture of my great-Granddad (Martin Tunney) from the Brandon collection.

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« Reply #1 on: Thursday 27 September 12 11:51 BST (UK) »
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Re: Durham Light Infantry
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 27 September 12 11:52 BST (UK) »
I thought I had, but here goes nothing...

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Re: Durham Light Infantry
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 27 September 12 12:47 BST (UK) »
One photographic record is the Stanley News Newspaper (West Stanley, County Durham). The DLI Museum has the war time editions. However it is photographs/information  only for servicemen killed/missing of that area. I have not seen any other newspaper that published pictures like that but there must be some more. Nearer to the end of the war is not so informative as the newspaper and readers became tired - as did the world!

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Re: Durham Light Infantry
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 27 September 12 12:55 BST (UK) »
Thanks for that, do you have a URL?

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Re: Durham Light Infantry
« Reply #5 on: Friday 28 September 12 05:11 BST (UK) »
No URL for Stanley News. Genealogy the old fashioned way. Unless they have filmed the WW1 editions one has to go to the DLI museum and turn the orginal pages in a large binder.

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Re: Durham Light Infantry
« Reply #6 on: Friday 28 September 12 15:09 BST (UK) »
 ;) I also had a relative who joined the DLI in 1904 Stockton on Tees, he was sent to France with the BEF, he was killed with weeks of landing, no photos of him survived, would love to think one might be with DLI Museum, my relative was J.W McIntosh 2 nd batt 8946 pte.
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Re: Durham Light Infantry
« Reply #7 on: Friday 28 September 12 18:52 BST (UK) »
Unclehefty, do you know which battalion your relations were in? There are some excellent books on the DLI by John Sheen which list the men alphabetically but they only cover certain batallions. http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/?author_id=77

Stockton - the Sheen book The Steel of the DLI covers 2nd batallion.
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« Reply #8 on: Saturday 29 September 12 00:15 BST (UK) »
1St/8th DLI; he was killed in february 1915 at the Ypres Salient.  His brothers were in the Northumberland Fusiliers and also the 1st/5th DLI.  I first knew about this when I went to Ypres and saw the Menin Gate - probably 15 years ago, it was gut-wrenching.

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