Durham Bugle Articles Issues 11 - 20

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 News Brief – 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

Issue No 17 Autumn 2008

1     The Centenary of the TA

2     Durham County Record Office News

3     The DLI Oral History Project

4     The Indian Mutiny – The Siege of Lucknow

5     The Indian Mutiny – The Bombay Light Infantry (2DLI)

6     One Brave Man Remembered – Capt Moss Cohen MM

7     The Gunpowder Story – The Sniper Rifle

8     Poetry of Lieut J H B Lyon MC

9     The DLI 100 Years Ago & 50 Years Ago

10   ‘In Search of Tom’ – a review

11   DLI 250 Anniversary photographs

12   DLI Crossword

Issue No 18 Spring 2009

1    ‘A Long Long War’ – a review

2    Queen’s Medal winners

3    ’50s Fun

4    Sgt Michael Gibson GC

5    Pozières and The Banks of Green Willow

6    Tribute to Major Peter Lewis MC

7    The ‘Faithful’ Inkerman Dinner Club Annual Dinner and VC Stone Ceremony

8    Lt Col William A Weightman TD – tribute

9    Anthony Eddy

10   A Man of Style – Maj Maurice Kirby

11   Changi Jail (2DLI)

12   Lt Col J W Jeffreys DSO

13   The DLI 100 Years Ago & 50 Years Ago

Issue No 19 Autumn 2009

1     Normandy 65 years on

2     The DLI 100 Years Ago & 50 Years Ago

3     Colonel H S Sell OBE MC TD

4     Today and Tomorrow – ‘They shall grow not old…’

5     Codename: Archambault (Major Gilbert Maurice Norman)

6     Bishop Auckland, Hebburn and Kandahar?

7     The British Regiment

8     Pte Arthur Wilson – POW march from Poland 1945

9     The Sentinel’s Creed – The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington, USA

10   Mystery Man – Lt William Watson DCM

11   The Rifleman’s Dream – Afghanistan (poem)

Issue No 20 Spring 2010

1     Cos ……. the Aegean Dunkirk

2     An Encounter with a VIP by a member of the RMP in Italy

3     Kohima 1944 – ‘One of the greatest battles in History’

4     Kohima – Campaign Map (DLI Museum Friends production)

5     Tracing Great War Ancestors – Finding Uncle Bill   A DVD Review

6     Casting Around    (Paul Dunn’s DLI statuettes)

7     The Silver War Badge

8     Seeing in the Dark     (Herschel, ex-Durham Militia, and infra-red light)

9     The Medals of Lt Col Nathan Cohen OBE

10    Pozières revisited – The unveiling of the Butterworth Memorial

11    The DLI 100 Years Ago & 50 Years Ago