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4 unusual facts about Durham Light Infantry


50th Infantry Division Regina

The British forces on Kos numbered about 1,500 men, 680 of whom where from the 1st Bn, Durham Light Infantry, the rest being mainly RAF personnel, and ca.

Butte de Warlencourt

The regiment most closely associated with the Butte de Warlencourt was the Durham Light Infantry.

John Ablitt

# In the final phase of the war (4–11 November 1918), at the end of the 100 days advance, Ablitt maintained communications between forward parties of the advancing 15th Durham Light Infantry (64th Brigade), as far as Limont-Fontaine, and Brigade HQ at Berlaimont.

Tim Westoll

Westoll was the son of Captain James Westoll, late Durham Light Infantry, by his marriage in 1917 to Marian Ellen, a daughter of Captain Arthur Lenox Napier OBE DL, of the Yorkshire Regiment, and the grandson of another James Westoll, a Justice of the Peace, of Coniscliffe in County Durham.


Peter Goggins

Born in South Moor, Durham, Goggins was a miner who joined the 19th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry as a volunteer, although his occupation exempted him from conscription.


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