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Soldiers of the 11th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry. x marks Thomas Bonney

During the First World War - the Great War - thousands of volunteers from the mines, shipyards, farms, shops, schools, offices and industries of County Durham joined the DLI. By 1918, the Durhams had raised 43 battalions - like the Durham Pals - with 22 seeing active service overseas - on the Western Front, in Italy, Egypt, Salonika and India.

The DLI fought in every major battle of the Great War - at Ypres (or better known as "Wipers, where this trench snapshot was taken in 1915), Loos, Arras, Messines, Cambrai, on the Somme and in the mud of Passendale.

Some 13,000 Durhams died on these battlefields, with thousands more wounded, gassed or taken prisoner.

Six Durhams were awarded the Victoria Cross during the Great War - Thomas Kenny, Roland Bradford, Mic

hael Heaviside, Frederick Youens, Arthur Lascelles and Thomas Young.

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