The 2nd Durham Artillery Volunteer Corps was a part-time unit of Britain's Royal Artillery raised in County Durham by the Vane-Tempest family during an invasion crisis in 1860. It became a permanent p
Letterhead of the 2nd (Seaham) Durham Artillery Volunteers, c1890
Territorial shoulder title worn by the Northumbrian (County of Durham) Brigades RFA.
15-pounder gun, known to the gunners in France as the 'pip-squeak'.
18-pounder preserved at the Imperial War Museum.
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The Sunderland Rifles was a Volunteer unit of the British Army formed in 1860. It went on to become a Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry in the Territorial Force and saw action as infantry and pio
2nd (Seaham) Durham Artillery Volunteer Corps
…Vane Tempest – aged 17 and 15 respectively – as Major and 1st Lieutenant. (Another of Earl Vane's brothers, Lord Adolphus Vane-Tempest, commanded the 3rd (Sunderland) Durham Rifle Volunteer Corps.) Viscount Seaham (later 6th Marquess), became Lt-Col Commandant in turn, and was still in command of the unit when it transferred to the Territorial…
Cap badge of the Durham Light Infantry, Territorial version (1909–53).
Men of 1/7th Bn DLI parading for the trenches, Reningelst, near Ypres, 29 April 1916.
William Orpen: The Butte de Warlencourt.
Pioneers laying duckboards at Passchendaele