The event celebrates the strong links between the region and The Rifles regiment, as well as the 8th Battalion The Rifles. ...

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.

WHEN the end of the war came for the battle-weary soldiers of the 9th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry, it must have seemed surreal. After six years of fierce fighting, it was over, and the ...

A service has been held in County Durham to commemorate the closure of a military museum. The Durham Light Infantry (DLI) Museum shut two years ago as part of the county council's cost-cutting ...

Durham Light Infantry Goes to War delves into the regiment's role in the conflict, from the soldiers' life at home to their arrival on the front line.

Durham Light Infantry (DLI) hopes the collection, which includes a solid silver punch bowl and posy vases, will fetch between £40,000 and £60,000. Colonel Arthur Charlton said it was a chance to ...

The statue will mirror the one at the National Arboretum A memorial honouring the Durham Light Infantry is to be installed in the regiment's home city. The bronze sculpture of a single soldier ...

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 ...

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 ...

In June 1944 at the time of D-Day, I was a captain in the Durham Light Infantry Regiment in the British Army. I had enlisted as a rifleman, in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, on Feb. 5, 1941, ...

Former Durham Light Infantry soldiers are to be awarded France’s highest military honour at November’s Festival of Remembrance. The Legion d’honneur medal will be presented to the North East ...

Plans afoot for the Durham Light Infantry museum's historic collection. Durham County Council is determined to secure a fitting and lasting tribute to the DLI Regiment despite the prospect of £ ...