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 O:
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14118 Private Martin O'DONNELL (Ref: O' Donnell D/DLI 7/929/1-10)
14th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
Residence Sunderland; killed in action 26 February 1916; buried Potijze, France.
Letter from 12685 Sergeant Brammer, and 9725 Sergeant J. Halpin, 'D' Company, 14th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force, France, to Mrs. C. O'Donnell concerning the death of Private M. O'Donnell, shot through the head by a sniper, and the offices performed by his fellow Roman Catholics, 26 February 1916
(1 paper)
Ref: D/DLI 7/929/2Letter from Second Lieutenant A. Rothfield, 14 Platoon, 'D' Company, 14th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, to Mrs. M. O'Donnell, informing her of the death of her husband, Private M. O'Donnell, 27 February 1916
(1 paper)
Ref: D/DLI 7/929/3Letter from the Infantry Record Office, York, to Mrs. Catherine O'Donnell, 22 Hart Street, Deptford, Sunderland, notifying her of the death of Private Martin O'Donnell, 14th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, at a place in France on 26 February 1916, from wounds received in action, 7 March 1916
(1 paper)
Ref: D/DLI 7/929/4Letter from the Infantry Record Office, York, to Mrs. C. O'Donnell, notifying her of the burial of her husband, Private M. O'Donnell at Potijze, Belgium, 15 April 1916
(1 paper)
Ref: D/DLI 7/929/5Memorial scroll to Private Martin O'Donnell and accompanying letters from King George V and Lord Kitchener, n.d. [1919]
(3 papers)
Ref: D/DLI 7/929/6Invitation to a solemn requiem at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Millfield, Sunderland, for parishioners who died in the Great War, 28 November 1918
(1 card, printed)
Ref: D/DLI 7/929/7Photograph of Martin O'Donnell, in civilian working dress, n.d. [c. 1914]
(1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white)
Ref: D/DLI 7/929/8Photograph of Private Martin O'Donnell and his wife and two children, n.d. [ c.1914]
(1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white)
Ref: D/DLI 7/929/9Photograph of Private Martin O'Donnell in uniform, n.d. [c.1914]
(1 photograph, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white)
Ref: D/DLI 7/929/10Photograph of seven soldiers in an unidentified military hospital ward, possibly including Private Martin O'Donnell in bed, on the right, n.d. [1914 - 1916]
(1 photograph, 21 cm. x 16 cm., black and white, card mounted)
Major OLIVER (Ref: Oliver D/DLI 7/510/1)The Durham Light Infantry
Ref: D/DLI 7/510/1Photograph of soldiers, possibly of the 9th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, on a victory march through South Shields, 19 July 1919
(1 photograph, 41cm. x 34cm., black and white)
Lieutenant George Richard OLIVER (Ref: Oliver D/DLI 7/511/1-9)5th Battalion, 20th Battalion, 3rd Battalion and 52nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Born, 1 September 1889; 2431 Private, 5th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry; home service, 31 August 1914 - 16 April 1915; France, 17 April 1915 - 4 March 1917; wounded, 23 April 1915; Home Officers' Course, Oxford; commissioned second lieutenant, 27 June 1917; served with 20th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, France, 12 August 1917 - 4 December 1918 (Prisoner of War, 19 April 1918, Mainz, Germany); with 3rd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, home service, 4 December 1918 - 9 February 1919; lieutenant, 22 December 1918; served with 52nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, home, 10 February - 4 March 1919, and Germany, 5 March 1919 - 8 February 1920; died, aged 92, May 1981
Aerial photograph of Mouquet Farm, France, 23 September 1916
(1 photograph, 20cm. x 15.5cm., black and white)
Ref: D/DLI 7/511/2Aerial photograph of Observatory Ridge, and Armagh Wood, Ypres, Belgium, 27 December 1916
(1 photograph, 21.5cm. x 16.5cm., black and white)
Ref: D/DLI 7/511/3Aerial photograph of trench system, on the Western Front, reference 15 AE 1349; 51.B N34 PT.4.B, 24 March 1917
(1 photograph, 16cm. x 21.5cm., black and white)
Ref: D/DLI 7/511/4Aerial photograph of trenches near Ypres, Belgium, reference 6B 3096; 28.I.32A, 20 August 1917
(1 photograph, 21cm. x 16cm., black and white)
Ref: D/DLI 7/511/5Aerial photograph of the Western Front including 'Belgian Wood', reference 53.B.0.14; 28.T.31.A, 9 September 1917
(1 photograph, 16.5cm. x 22cm., black and white)
Ref: D/DLI 7/511/6Aerial photograph of the Western Front around Begelaere, with added grid lines, reference 6B.0.17; J.22.23.24, 16 September 1917
(1 photograph, 21.5cm. x 16.5cm., black and white)
Ref: D/DLI 7/511/7Aerial photograph of unidentified section of the Western Front, taken by No. 2 Advanced Section, A.P. and S.S., 24 September 1917
(1 photograph, 21.5cm. x 16.5cm., black and white)
Ref: D/DLI 7/511/8Aerial photograph of trench system on the Western Front, showing Tower Hamlets, British and German posts, Tower Trench and Lewis House, near Ypres, Belgium, 2 October 1917
(1 photograph, 21cm. x 17cm., black and white)
Ref: D/DLI 7/511/9Aerial photograph of a section of the Western Front, reference 68.3713; 28.J.22.C, 29 October 1917
(1 photograph, 21.5cm. x 16.5cm., black and white)
Captain William Sholto OLLESON (Ref: Olleson D/DLI 7/512/1-16)9th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Second Lieutenant, 9th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, 9 May 1929 -n.d.; Captain [1935] - n.d.
Commission of William Sholto Olleson, from 9 May 1929, as second lieutenant in the 9th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, 15 May 1929
(1 card)
Ref: D/DLI 7/512/2Bills from George Downie and Sons, tailors, 62 and 64 Grey Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Alkit, naval, military, R.A.F. and sporting outfitters, Cambridge Circus, London, to Captain W.S. Olleson, Sylverton, Westoe Village, South Shields, for a captain's full dress uniform, 6 February - 22 August 1935
(10 papers)
Ref: D/DLI 7/512/3Memorandum from the Newcastle Shipbuilding Company to W. Olleson, concerning his salary scale, 30 August 1920
(1 paper)
Ref: D/DLI 7/512/4Photograph of Second Lieutenant William S. Olleson, n.d., [1929]
(1 photograph, 16cm. x 21cm., black and white, card mounted)
Ref: D/DLI 7/512/5Photograph of [Captain] William S. Olleson, n.d., [1935]
(1 photograph, 16cm. x 21cm., black and white, card mounted)
Ref: D/DLI 7/512/6Photograph of [Captain] William S. Olleson, n.d., [1935]
(1 photograph, 16cm. x 21cm., black and white, card mounted)
Ref: D/DLI 7/512/7Photograph of [Captain] William S. Olleson, n.d., [1935]
(1 photograph, 16cm. x 21cm., black and white, card mounted)
Ref: D/DLI 7/512/8Group photograph of Staff College No. 5 Junior Staff Course, 'B' Division, including Captain W.S. Olleson, The Durham Light Infantry, third row, third from left, n.d., [1930s - 1940s]
Front row: Captain H.T. Milnes, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire; Major M.E. Bramsby-Williams, Royal Artillery; Major J. d'H. Hamilton, Coldstream Guards; Lieutenant-Colonel F.C. Rea, Royal Artillery; Lieutenant-Colonel J. White, Royal Army Service Corps; Lieutenant- Colonel D.P. Bryce R.A.; Brigadier E.J. Medley, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C.; Major-General Sir Alan Cunningham K.C.B., D.S.O., M.C.; Lieutenant- Colonel F. Clare D.C.M., Oxford and Buckinghamshire; Lieutenant- Colonel H. Macpherson, East Yorkshire; Lieutenant-Colonel J. Pemberton M.B.E., E.R.E.; Lieutenant D.M. Anderson Highland Light Infantry; Lieutenant-Colonel W.H. Jackson, Royal Warwickshire; Lieutenant-Colonel R.N. Gilbertson, R.S.; Lieutenant-Colonel F.T. Chamier, Cameronians
Second row: Captain E.S. Palfery, Royal Army Service Corps; Lieutenant H. de C. Stevens-Guille, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire; Lieutenant K.N. Fairweather, Royal Artillery; Captain H.S. Smith, P.P.C.L.I.; Lieutenant J.J. Lloyd, Royal Artillery; Captain M. Gaywood, Royal Army Ordnance Corps; Captain A. Banks, D.W.R.; Captain T.R. Hood, Wiltshire; Lieutenant P.E. Devitt, Dorset; Captain G.E. Macdonald, Somerset Light Infantry; Captain D.C.R. Simms, Edmn. Regiment; Captain J.G. Roberti, Belgian Forces; Captain J.V. Richardson, Royal Artillery; Captain R.C. Bishop, South Wales Borders; Major Sir G.E. Tritton, R.B.; Captain T.R. Taylor, Somerset Light Infantry
Third row: Captain N.K. Lindsay, Royal Army Service Corps; Captain G.R. Finlow, King's Shropshire Light Infantry; Captain W.S. Olleson, Durham Light Infantry; Lieutenant C.F. James, Royal Artillery; Captain R.R. Fielding, Royal Artillery; Captain R.C. Mitchell, Royal Army Ordnance Corps; Lieutenant G.P. Felstead, West Yorkshire; Lieutenant R. Evans, Royal Artillery; Captain S. Taylor, R.Ir.F.; Captain G.A. Greenhill, Royal Army Service Corps; Commander R.E. Monjoie, Belgian Forces; Captain N. Pinder, Royal Artillery; Captain E.B. Freeman, Devonshire; Lieutenant T. W. Milne, Royal Engineers; Lieutenant Kuncl, Czech Forces; Lieutenant A.K. Morgan, Duke of Wellington's; Captain J.R. Saynor, Royal Army Service Corps
Fourth row: Captain R.G.M. Gammell, P.P.C.L.I.; Major P.D. Halifax, Royal Army Ordnance Corps; Captain T.L. Dinwiddy, Royal Artillery; Captain R.G. Covell, Royal Engineers; Captain A. Mackenzie, Royal Scots Fusiliers; Lieutenant W.L. Lovering, R.C.A.; Captain G.H. Lillies, Devonshire; Lieutenant W.G. Bayley, Royal Artillery; Captain W.J. Berragan, Royal Artillery; Captain J. Birkett, King's Dragoon Guards; Major C.R. Somerville, R.C.A.S.A.; Major H.L. Thompson, Royal Artillery; Captain J. G. Johnson, Royal Army Ordnance Corps; Captain E.L. Sturdy, Royal Artillery; Lieutenant J.A. Hickman, Pioneer Corps
Back row: Major J.W. Thompson, King's Royal Rifle Corps; Major A.C. Ross, C.B. Highlanders; Captain A.R. Tillotson, Norfolk; Lieutenant J.V. Allgood, Royal Welch Fusiliers; Captain E.A. May, Coldstream Guards; Captain A. Smith, Royal Berkshire; Captain C.H. Eaves, Worcestershire; Captain A.M. Keeling, Royal Signallers; Major M. F. Auden, G.G.H.G.; Lieutenant L. Woolf, Royal Artillery; Captain S.C.J. King, Royal Army Service Corps; Captain R.M. Sturdy, Irish Guards; Captain R.H. Miller, Manchester; Captain J.T. McConnell, Royal Artillery; Captain J.H. Stephens, Royal Artillery
(1 photograph, 33cm. x 29cm., black and white, card mounted)
Ref: D/DLI 7/512/9Group photograph of Staff College No. 5 Junior Staff Course, 'B' Division, including Captain W.S. Olleson, The Durham Light Infantry, third row, third from left, n.d., [1930s - 1940s]
The individuals are named, as in (D/DLI 7/512/8)
(1 photograph, 33cm. x 29cm., black and white, card mounted)
Ref: D/DLI 7/512/10Group photograph of officers of The Durham Light Infantry, Ravensworth Castle, Gateshead, July 1934
(1 photograph, 30cm. x 19cm., black and white, card mounted)
Ref: D/DLI 7/512/11Extract from The Shields Gazette newspaper, concerning the presentation of Captain W.S. Olleson to the Prince of Wales at a Royal Levée, 30 March 1935
(1 paper)
Ref: D/DLI 7/512/12Baggage label belonging to Captain W.S. Olleson, 'S' Company (Gateshead), 9th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, n.d., [1930s - 1940s]
(1 label)
Ref: D/DLI 7/512/13Current Affairs in the Army; The Outline of a New Plan, published by the Army Bureau of Current Affairs, August 1941
(2 papers)
Ref: D/DLI 7/512/14Popular Guide to the German Army no. 1 : the German Armoured Division (Panzer Division) and the German Motorized Division (Panzer Grenadier Division), published by the War Office, November 1943
(2 papers)
Ref: D/DLI 7/512/15Popular guide to the German Army No. 2 1944 : The German Infantry division, published by the War Office, April 1944
(2 papers)
Ref: D/DLI 7/512/16Photograph of [Sub-Lieutenant] Dick Adams [possibly in the Royal Navy], n.d., [1930s - 1940s]
(1 photograph, 8.5cm. x 13.5cm., black and white)
