The Militia and Volunteers of County Durham are those military units raised in the County independent of the regular Army. The "modern" militia dates from legislation enacted during the Seven Years' W
Shako plate of the Durham Militia, 1850s from the Durham Light Infantry museum
Home Service Helmet badge of the 2nd (Administrative battalion) Durham Rifle Volunteer Corps, pre 1881 from the Durham Light Infantry museum
Officer's coatee button of the Durham Militia c. 1850s from the Durham Light Infantry museum
Band boy's tunic button of the North Durham Militia c. 1860s from the Durham Light Infantry museum
Sunderland Rifles
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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
Militia and Volunteers of County Durham
…3rd (6th, 8th and 9th) with headquarters in Gateshead The 3rd (Sunderland) Corps was large enough not to join with other corps, being five companies strong. In December the 4th Administrative Battalion was formed from the 1st, 15th…
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