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Durham Light Infantry Records

Reference: D/DLI 7 Catalogue Title: Durham Light Infantry Records Area: Catalogue Category: Antiquarian and Composite Records Description: Individual Soldiers - surnames M: Me to Mi

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  • Durham Light Infantry Records
    • 43132 Private Thomas William MEADOWS (Ref: Meadows D/DLI 7/922/1-2)
    • Second Lieutenant William Ewart MEIKLE (Ref: Meikle D/DLI 7/467/1)
    • Major William Byron MILBANKE, M.B. (Ref: Milbanke D/DLI 7/468/1-5)
    • Private Arnold MILLER (Ref: Miller D/DLI 7/469/1-16)
    • Second Lieutenant John Charles MILLER (Ref: Miller D/DLI 7/470/1-3)
    • Second Lieutenant Oswald MINTO (Ref: Minto D/DLI 7/471/1)

Catalogue Contents

43132 Private Thomas William MEADOWS (Ref: Meadows D/DLI 7/922/1-2)

2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
Enlisted Stockton-on-Tees; killed in action 16 May 1917

Ref: D/DLI 7/922/1

Photograph of Private Thomas Meadows, The Durham Light Infantry, taken on enlistment, and sent to Miss B. Brown of Carlton Street, Blyth, Northumberland, n.d. [1916 - 1917]
(1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white)

Ref: D/DLI 7/922/2

Photograph of Private Thomas Meadows, 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, wearing a steel helmet and holding a puppy, taken in France and Belgium, n.d. [1916 - 1917]
(1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white)

Second Lieutenant William Ewart MEIKLE (Ref: Meikle D/DLI 7/467/1)

9th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry

Ref: D/DLI 7/467/1

Commission of W.E. Meikle as a second lieutenant in the Territorial Force, 13 July 1915
(1 paper)

Major William Byron MILBANKE, M.B. (Ref: Milbanke D/DLI 7/468/1-5)

7th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Also served in Royal Army Medial Corps (Territorial Force)

Ref: D/DLI 7/468/1

Certificate that Major W.B. Milbanke was mentioned in a despatch from Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, dated 9 April 1917, 1 March 1919
(1 paper)

Ref: D/DLI 7/468/2

Map of Belgium and part of France, Sheet 28: Ypres, February 1917 Scale: 1:40,000
(1 plan, 89cm. x 65cm., colour)

Ref: D/DLI 7/468/3

Photograph of Major W.B. Milbanke, n.d., [1914 - 1918]
(1 photograph, 10cm. x 14 m., black and white, card mounted)

Ref: D/DLI 7/468/4

Group photograph of officers of the 7th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, including Major W.B. Milbanke, second row, fifth from left, n.d., [1914 - 1918]
(1 photograph, 31cm. x 26cm., black and white, card mounted)

Ref: D/DLI 7/468/5

Photograph of seven unidentified officers, n.d., [1914 - 1918]
(1 photograph, 14cm. x 9cm., black and white)

Private Arnold MILLER (Ref: Miller D/DLI 7/469/1-16)

1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry

Ref: D/DLI 7/469/1

Soldier's service book of Private A. Miller, 28 February 1941
(1 booklet)

Ref: D/DLI 7/469/2

Permanent pass of Bugler A. Miller, 27 August 1928
(1 card)

Ref: D/DLI 7/469/3

Number not used

Ref: D/DLI 7/469/4

Buglers' Order Board given at Alexandria, Egypt, 14 August 1928
(1 paper)

Ref: D/DLI 7/469/5

Invitation of Arnold Miller to a 'Welcome Home' celebration in South Shields, 13 April 1946
(1 card)

Ref: D/DLI 7/469/6

'Notes on the Control of Military Road Movement throughout North West Europe', May 1944
(1 booklet)

Ref: D/DLI 7/469/7

Allied propaganda leaflet in German, n.d., [1939 - 1945]
(1 paper)

Ref: D/DLI 7/469/8

Five-franc bank note, 2 June 1943
(1 paper)

Ref: D/DLI 7/469/9

Fifty-sen bank note, n.d., [20th c.]
(1 paper)

Ref: D/DLI 7/469/10

Photograph of Arnold Miller, n.d., [20th c.]
(1 photograph, 6cm. x 8cm., black and white)

Ref: D/DLI 7/469/11

Photograph of the band of the 1st Battalion of The Durham Light Infantry, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1927
(1 photograph, 14cm. x 9cm., black and white)

Ref: D/DLI 7/469/12

Photograph of men on board the H.M.S. Eagle in Alexandria Harbour, Egypt, 1930
(1 photograph, 8cm. x 5cm., black and white)

Ref: D/DLI 7/469/13

Photograph of four men in hockey kit, possibly in Egypt, n.d., [1927 - 1930]
(1 photograph, 5cm. x 8cm., black and white)

Ref: D/DLI 7/469/14

Group photograph of men and nurses at Ruddington Hall Convalescent Home, Nottinghamshire, June 1943
(1 photograph, 14cm. x 9cm., black and white)

Ref: D/DLI 7/469/15

Photograph of nurses and an unidentified man outside Ruddington Hall Convalescent Home, Nottinghamshire, June 1943
(1 photograph, 14cm. x 9cm., black and white)

Ref: D/DLI 7/469/16

Photograph of the pyramids of Gizeh, Egypt, 1928
(1 photograph, 8cm. x 5cm., black and white)

Second Lieutenant John Charles MILLER (Ref: Miller D/DLI 7/470/1-3)

6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Killed in action, 27 July 1915

Ref: D/DLI 7/470/1

Scroll, in memory of Second Lieutenant J.C. Miller, n.d., [1919]
(1 paper)

Ref: D/DLI 7/470/2

Printed letter accompanying the memorial scroll from the King, n.d., [1919]
(1 paper)

Ref: D/DLI 7/470/3

Address label from the packaging, originally enclosing D/DLI 7/470/1-2, c. 1919
(1 paper)

Second Lieutenant Oswald MINTO (Ref: Minto D/DLI 7/471/1)

The Durham Light Infantry

Ref: D/DLI 7/471/1

Temporary commission of Oswald Minto as second lieutenant in the Infantry, 21 September 1915
(1 paper)



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