1st Durham Rifle Volunteers
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The 1st Durham Rifle Volunteers, later the 5th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, was a part-time unit of the British Army from 1860 to the 1950s. Beginning from small independent corps of the Voluntee
DLI cap badge (1902–53 version)
Preserved trenches at Sanctuary Wood Museum Hill 62
Trenches near Flers, September 1916
William Orpen: The Butte de Warlencourt
Hull Rifles
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The Hull Rifles, later the 4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, was a unit of Britain's Volunteer Force first raised in Kingston upon Hull in 1859. During the First World War it served on the Weste
1st Durham Rifle Volunteers
…it remained as part of the Humber Garrison for the rest of the war. It was disbanded on 17 April 1919. In 1915 the Home Service men of the 5th DLI and 4th East Yorkshire Regiment were combined into the 25th Provisional Battalion at York, where they were joined by the unfit men from the 2nd and 3rd Line TF battalions. The battalion…
Cap badge of the East Yorkshire Regiment, granted to the battalion in 1885
Londesborough Barracks, Hull.
British Mark I Male tank, preparing to advance at Flers–Courcelette.