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Durham Light Infantry Records

Reference: D/DLI 5 Catalogue Title: Durham Light Infantry Records Area: Catalogue Category: Antiquarian and Composite Records Description: Home Guard, Phase 2

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Catalogue Description

HOME GUARD

DURHAM HOME GUARD, 1940 - 1951

Catalogue Contents

Durham Light Infantry Records (Ref: D/DLI)Instructions (Ref: D/DLI 5/1/39-39(4))

Local Defence Volunteers Training Instruction No. 3: German Parachute Troops, War Office, June 1940 Includes: four plates of drawings for identification purposes:


Drawings of automatic weapons and stick grenades used by German parachute troops, 1940


Drawing of cylindrical containers containing arms dropped by parachute, 1940


Drawing of details of the equipment of German parachute troops, front and back views, 1940


Drawing of details of the equipment of German parachute troops, side views, 1940
(1 file, printed)

Records concerning the operation of the Durham Home Guard (Ref: D/DLI 5/1/40)

Home Guard map of the coastal area from Easington Colliery to Blackhall, marked to show roads and reference points in the Horden area, n.d. [1939 - 1945] Scale: 6 inches to 1 mile [1:10,560] (1 plan, 45 cm. x 48 cm., colour) DURHAM HOME GUARD BATTALIONS 11th Durham (Durham) Battalion, Home Guard

Records of W.D. Bowman (Ref: D/DLI 5/3/11/3-4/2)

Copy photograph of an unidentified Durham Home Guard group, taken outside St. Edmund's Church, Bearpark, n.d. [1940 - 1945] Includes: Middle row: W.D. Bowman, third right, and Tom Hanson, extreme right Front row: Gowan Cook, second right
(1 paper, 30 cm. x 21 cm., black and white, and one semi-transparent overlay)


Copy photograph of the wedding of Flying Officer James Bowman, D.F.C. of Sherburn [the brother of W.D. Bowman] and Miss Betty Clibbens, of London, 1944 Includes: W.D. Bowman, first left
(1 paper, duplicated)


Newspaper report of the wedding of Flying Officer James Bowman, D.F.C. of Sherburn [the brother of W.D. Bowman] and Miss Betty Clibbens, of London, 1944
(1 paper, duplicated)

 (Ref: D/DLI 5/3/13/3-5)

13th Durham (South Hylton) Battalion, Home Guard

Records of Captain C.P. Deane


Field Service pocket book of Captain C.P. Deane, 13th Durham (South Hylton) Battalion, Home Guard, containing Infantry Brigade Headquarters standing orders, and Field Service Pocket Book Part 1 Pamphlets 1 - 7, 10, 13, and Pamphlets 10 and 12, War Office, 1939 - 1944
(1 file, printed)


'Specimen Standing Orders for Protection against Gas and Air Raids in Billets, Camps and Bivouacs for all Headquarters and Units', War Office, October 1939
(1 booklet, printed)


War Establishments pamphlet, Field Service Pocket Book, 1926
(1 booklet, printed)

22nd Durham (Wheatley Hill) Battalion, Home Guard (Ref: D/DLI 5/3/22/6-9)

'History of the 22nd Battalion Home Guard, from the viewpoint of 'A' Company', describing the 22nd Durham (Wheatley Hill) Battalion from 1939 to 1944; dedicated to Lieutenant J.T. Oswald by W.L. Liddell of Thornley, 22 December 1944
(1 file, typescript)


Patrol map (9478), part of Sheet 28 N.W.4 Square 1, and report of an observation patrol near Hellfire Corner, north of Zillebeke, Belgium, by T.M. Robinson, G. Sanderson and J.R. John, 8 September 1918 Scale: 1:10,000 This document probably belonged to a member of the Home Guard, associated with D/DLI 5/3/22/6
(1 plan, 19 cm. x 25 cm., colour printed)


Instruction leaflet 'Words of Command with detail', issued by Northern Command Non-Commissioned Officers' School of Instruction, 18 January 1918 This document probably belonged to a member of the Home Guard, associated with D/DLI 5/3/22/6
(1 booklet, printed)


Certificate of service of [Captain] Walter Flower in the Home Guard from 4 May 1940 to 31 December 1944, n.d. [1945]
(1 paper)