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A host of rare and interesting items were up for sale in the Militaria and Ethnographica Sale on June 25, the earliest of ...
You could argue it was for occasions like this, once-in-a-lifetime stuff for Geordies, that the Northumberland Fusiliers marched to war more than a century ago.
A century after South Hylton War memorial was erected, three war heroes who fought during the Great War of 1914-18 have finally had their names engraved alongside their fallen comrades.
He served in the 4th Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, a fact which had always puzzled Mr Palmer, who wondered why his cousin had not been called to serve in the Suffolk Regiment.
The festival concludes with the Roll of Honour, which features names of the Fallen from the Durham Light Infantry and the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers during the Korean War, which lasted from ...
The 6th Northumberland Fusiliers stained glass window was originally in the officer’s mess of the Drill Hall which used to stand at the nearby corner of St Mary’s Placer and College Street.
Within the artefacts was a signet ring and fountain pen belonging to 2nd Lieutenant Ablett from the 11th Northumberland Fusiliers. Journalist Rachel Fixsen was identified as Lesley Ablett's cousin.
At the start of their journey, they discovered the body of 2nd Lieutenant Ablett from the 11th Northumberland Fusiliers. He was identifiable by his ID bracelet and a ring and remarkably, he still ...
SUNBURY — Northumberland County District Attorney Tony Matulewicz will get an additional assistant district attorney after a special salary board meeting was called Friday in order to approve a ...
The dead soldiers were from the 11th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. The seven identified servicemen were: 2nd Lt Leslie Wallace Ablett, born in Manchester and later lived in Streatham, London.
The dead soldiers were from the 11th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. The seven identified servicemen were: 2nd Lt Leslie Wallace Ablett, born in Manchester and later lived in Streatham, London.
The seven men served together in 11th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, and died within days of each other during the bloody Battle of Passchendaele in October 1917.