Articles published in the Durham Bugle

Each magazine contains, apart from the articles listed here, other regular features, book reviews, shorter pieces of DLI interest, news, etc. as well as photographs.

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Issue No 1 Autumn 2000

1     Editorial and Reports of the Annual meeting of The Society of Friends of The DLI Museum

2     A soldiers last message home comes to rest after 85 years - Mrs Crowhurst comes from Australia to present her father’s message in a

       bottle to the museum

3     The Final Game - a unique occasion recorded

4     The History Page - First of a series of easy-to-read histories of the regular battalions of the DLI from 1758 – 1900

Issue No 2 Spring 2001

1     The History Page - An outline history of the Regiment from 1902-1937

2     Major Ian English MC TD tells of The Arras counter attack as a lesson in manoeuvre warfare

3     Brief outline of the story of the Volunteer Battalions

4     Padre Major Fred Blackburn tells of his meeting with “Monty”

Issue No 3 Autumn 2001

    The Annual General Meeting of The Society of Friends of the DLI Museum

1     The History Page. The completion of the easy-to-read history of the DLI

2     Durham County Records

3     Forging Memories – by David Thompson

4     Flimsy Tins & Jerry cans – by Major I R English MC TD

5     Citations & More – by Maj. Mike Spurrier

6     Antigua, a posting of the 68th Foot - by Major Randal Cross

7     Lonely Graves, South Africa

Issue No 4 Spring 2002

1     The “Faithful” Inkerman Dinner Club and the background to The VC Celebration Stone

2     The Address Given by Canon G.H. Markham at the reunion service in Durham Cathedral, Sept 1, 2001

3     Feelings  - David Thompson deals with evidence that confirms how the support of the people at home was appreciated by the

       troops in the trenches

4     Military Transport - Major I R English MC TD compares the problems met by his father serving with 9 DLI in WW1 with his own

       experiences in while serving with 8DLI

Issue No 5 Autumn 2002

1     The Bad Boys of 2 DLI made their mark in Colditz

2     The San Martino Trail – The story of how eight members of “C” (DLI) Coy of the Tyne Tees Regt from Bishop Auckland

       accompanied by Major I.R. English (who had escaped this way) and Major & Mrs Randal Cross completed the Trail charity

       walk

3     Borneo, The Last Campaign of the DLI - Col RWH Crawford OBE relates some of his memories of the last action of the DLI

4     The Wakenshaw family visit the museum on 60th Anniversary of Pte Adam Wakenshaw’s courageous action

Issue No 6 Spring 2003

1     How a DLI POW taught Maurice Chevalier to speak English

2     ‘The Battle (that nearly was) of Durban Quay - An eye-witness report by Major I.R. English MC

3     With the Colours’  - by Kevin Storey

4     The King and The DLI - by Ralph Harrison

5     Postcards and the DLI - Peter Nelson looks at how the postcard-collecting hobby is of historical relevance to the DLI

Issue No 7 (labelled 6) Autumn 2003

1     A Pilgrimage to the Desert Battlefields

2     Outline of the Friends AGM

3     The Jack Banks Story - a WW2 Boy soldier and ‘A Footnote to the Story’ by Canon G.W. Markham

4     The Art of being Blind - Peter Nelson looks at the history of St. Dunstan’s and the fund-raising efforts of postcard artists such as

       R Caton Woodville

5     Korean Page – Subalterns, “Sammy” Cotton (A Korean Casualty Remembered)

6     The Boxing Bandsman - Ralph Harrison interviews Jimmy Towns

Issue No 8 Spring 2004

1     D Day - Ian English recalls his experience with 151 (Durham) Brigade                      

2     Service in Egypt in 1954 by Philip Windsor-Aubrey (Tins o’ strawberries)                                 

3     Second Battalion War Graves – Fred Farley’s album of photographs of DLI war graves in Burma   

4     The 4th (Extra Reserve) Bn 1914-19 – David Thompson writes about an important training and reinforcement unit                             

5     The Shanghai Incident – Major Mike Bond looks back on his experiences in Hong Kong and those of his father in Shanghai

6     The King & the DLI continued – Ralph Harrison adds detail to his original article                                                   

7     A Sign of the Times – A modern day ‘Battiscombe’s Letter’ in the form of an email from Steve Hopper [“C” (DLI) Coy, Tyne Tees

       Regt in Iraq

8     The Man with the Lamp at the burial of Sir John Moore

9     The Steel of the DLI - The White Gurkhas inc. WW1 poetry dedicated to the Second Battalion

Issue No 9 Autumn 2004

1     The Mounted Infantry – Ralph Harrison relates how the regiment came to own a  silver model of a pony called Snow

2     Inkerman - Kevin Storey tells the story of the ‘Soldiers Battle’ 150 years ago   

3     Counting the Cost - Peter Nelson reflects on the D-Day anniversary and the cost to one particular individual who lost his sight

4     A call for HELP from the County Record Office - Can You Help to identify people in photographs for the record?

5     The DLI Train – Ralph Harrison’s history of the DLI locomotive

6     An Afterthought to ‘Counting the Cost’ (see 3 above) - by Peter Nelson

7     Jack Banks Commemoration - A report of the visit to Blackburn & Darwen

8     3rd Reserve Battalions in WW1 - by David Thompson

9     Hospital Hill, Salerno  - Ken Lovell recalls the counterattack

10    Medical duty with 6 DLI recalled by Dr David Joy

Issue No 10 Spring 2005

1     Capt Richard W Annand VC DL - The address by General Robin Brims at the Memorial Service for Capt Annand VC DL at Durham

       Cathedral

2     Durham County Record Office - The Image of the Soldier project

3     Borneo 1962-66

4     Postcards from the DLI Front – Peter Nelson on the recently acquired Fred Lucas postcard collection

5     Paddy Hobin’s escape story – The story of a Sacriston soldier’s three attempts to escape from Germany

6     Trench Art - Peter Nelson writes about the pastime, the skills and some of the items to be found at sales

7     The National Memorial Arboretum

Issue No 11 Autumn 2005

1    The Sixtieth Anniversary of the end of World War II

2    The Battle of Hooge on the Ninetieth Anniversary

3    "Our William" by Enid Heron

4    LI Newsbrief - the future of the Light Infantry

5    A County Regiment (reprinted from Medal News)

6    Gunpowder by Ralph Harrison

7    The Disbandment of 2 DLI (from the Regimental Journal Oct 1955)

8    A Most Memorable Day by Ken Lovell

9    Every Picture tells a Story by Donald McDonald

Issue No 12 Spring 2006

1    The Battle of the Somme - Kevin Storey

2    Strike a Light - Peter Nelson

3    The Rifles - update by General Robin Brims

4    A Gallipoli Connection - Major Mike Bond

5    The Battle of Gate Pa - Sjt GP Henry

6    Dim as a TOC H Lamp - John Heron

7    Tanks, banks and West Hartlepool - Peter Nelson

8    Capt. Michael Farr MBE - the archive reviewed by Peter Nelson

9    The American War of Independence and the Development of the Light Infantry - Ralph Harrison

10  The Early Development of the Rifle - Ralph Harrison

Issue No 13 Autumn 2006

1     DLI Association 90th Anniversary Pilgrimage to the Somme - John Heron

2     150 years of The Victoria Cross - Sir Peter de la Billiere

3     Major Ian English MC TD - a tribute

4     The DLI 100 Years Ago & 50 Years Ago - Kevin Storey

5     From Pit Yard to Passchendaele

6     Les Baraques War Cemetery, Sangatte, The Story of Joseph Leng

7     A Small Mistake and a Forgotten Battle - Clive Bowery

8     The Gunpowder Story, Delivering the Shot - Ralph Harrison

9     Weaving a New Web - Peter Nelson

10    Friends in Deed - Donald McDonald

11    Genesis of a Superstition, The Third Light - Peter Nelson

Issue No 14 Spring 2007

1    Tommy Griffiths Memorial Service

2    'Apricots' - memories of an action in Italy

3    North East War Memorials Project

4    'Name, Rank and Serial Number' - an original war exhibition

5    Special Feature - 'The Rifles' Pull-out Centrefold

6    'Coal Field to Battlefield' - CSM Jimmy McGarey MM

7    Bede College War Memorial

8    John Byrne VC - Irish plaque unveiled

9    The DLI 100 Years Ago & 50 Years Ago

10    DLI Books: 'For you Tommy the War is Over' & 'Jungle Conflict'

11    A Tale of Two Books

Issue No 15 Autumn 2007

1    The Indian Mutiny - Kevin Storey

2    Voices of the DLI - A history of DLI regimental magazines - Peter Nelson

3    The Rev John Beaumont - a Colditz veteran recalled

4    Special 150th Anniversary Pull-out Feature -  facsimile centrefold of 'The Argo', the first DLI (68th Reg) magazine issue

5    'Durham Pals' - John Sheen's book reviewed by John Heron

6    South Shields DLI VCs remembered

7    The Gunpowder Story - Ralph Harrison

8    Major General Gerald Green CBE - Army service with a difference

9    The Soldier's Field - a personal account of army life by Bernard Seyburn

10   Bits and Pieces - Peter Nelson

11   Passchendaele Pilgrimage - John Heron

12   Joseph Nicholls - dead at 17

Issue No 16 Spring 2008

1     Tributes to Canon Markham and Ken Lovell

2     Veterans return to Death Alley Bridge

3     The Indian mutiny pt2

4     The DLI 100 Years Ago & 50 Years Ago

5     The Work of The Friends

6     The Future - The DLI Museum

7     Faithful Inkerman Dinner Club Report

8     The Gunpowder Story - Assault rifles

9     A DLI Anniversary recalled

10   The TA Centenary

11   The DLI Marches On - Peter Nelson

12.  Dancing The Paddington Frisk - the story of James Hackman

13.  Somme Memorial  Unveiled

14.  DLI Crossword

05 April 2008