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1st Battalion, Durham Light Infantry
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2nd Lt. John James Myers 11th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (d.22nd Oct 1917) On the 22nd October 1917 2Lt John James Myers of 11th DLI was killed in action, he has no known grave and is remembered at Thiepval, he was 21 and had been an officer cadet at Barnard Castle School. The Barnard Castle book of remembrance has him down as killed at the Battle of Cambrai, which was in November 1917 I believe so I am trying to find out more.
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Pte Joseph Little Ferguson 8th Btn Durham Light Infantry (d.11th Apr 1918) Joseph Ferguson lost his life whilst serving with the 8th Durham Light Infantry. He had formerly served with the 1st Btn. Durham Light Infantry
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Pte. Patrick Donnelly 1st Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.7th Nov 1918) Patrick Donnelly was the son of the James and Annie Donnelly of Jarrow, was born in Glasgow and lived in Jarrow. He enlisted at Jarrow.
Patrick is buried in Rawalpindi War Cemetery and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.
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Pte. William Clark 1st Btn Durham Light Infantry (d.31st Aug 1914) William Clark was aged 24 when he died on 31st August 1914 whilst serving with the 1st Battalion Durham Light Infantry in India. He was born and lived in Jarrow and enlisted in Newcastle. William Clark age 20 a Clerk at Steelworks is recorded as living with his widowed mother Mary Ann Clark and family at 48 Northbourne Road, Jarrow on the 1911 census. He was the son of Mary Ann Clark (nee Watson) and late William Clark of Jarrow.
William is remembered on the Delhi Memorial (India Gate) and is buried in Nowshera Military Cemetery.
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Pte. William Moses Elwick 1st Battalion Durham Light Infantry (d.4th Apr 1918) I have just rediscovered my great uncle after many decades. He was only living within our extended family for a short time. He and my Great Aunt Grace Benson were married in the last quarter of 1917. His name was William Moses Elwick. He was born in 1879 in Lythe, a small Yorkshire village. Later he moved to Middlesbrough. On December 10th 1915, age 36, he joined the British Army, was mobilised and posted - probably to France - on March 22nd, 1916. He was in the 1st and 5th Battalions of the Durham Light Infantry, in the 150th Brigade of the 50th Northumbrian Division. On April 4th 1918, somewhere close to the French/Belgium border in that brutal trench warfare of WW1, William died. His body was never found. He is commemorated on Panels 8/9 of the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium.
I do not know how long Grace and William had known each other, but I do know that she never recovered from his death. She carried a torch for him for the rest of her life. The sepia photograph of a WW1 soldier on a shelf was all we children knew of him. I gave no thought to him until now. Rediscovering my Great Uncle has made me reflect on war - on this war in particular - and, upon the thousands and thousands whose lives were similarly ripped apart by death and loss. Each one deserves to be named, and remembered with gratitude. It is never too late. I now call out the name of William Moses Elwick. It will be Remembrance Day in 11 days.
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Pte. John Nicholson 9th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (d.8th Feb 1916) John Nicholson was my grandmother's younger brother who was only 19 when killed in action in France.
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Pte Ralph Snowdon 1st/7th Btn Durham Light Infantry (d.1st Oct 1916) Snowdon, Ralph. Private, 7030, Killed in Action on 1st October 1916. Aged 31 years.
Remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 14 A and 15 C.
19th Btn, Northumberland Fusiliers records show that he was formerly a member of the 19th N.F. with service No- 19/1634 and Btn History shows surname as Snowden.
Husband of Alice Byrne Snowdon, of 13, Northfield Rd, Piershill, Edinburgh.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
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Pte. William Fletcher 21st Btn. A Coy. Durham Light Infantry William Fletcher was a grocer from Billingham, he enlisted in Middlesbrough aged 21, in June 1915. He served with A Company, 21st Battalion DLI and went to France on the 26th Of April 1916, suffering a gunshot wound to his face in June. He returned to England for treatment. In Feburary 1917 he transferred to the Northumberland Fusiliers and then to 412 Coy. Labour Corps.
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