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 P: Pi to Po
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- Durham Light Infantry Records
- Durham Light Infantry Records (Ref: D/DLI)
- 270150 Private Alfred John PICKERING (Ref: Pickering D/DLI 7/537/1-20)
- Private William PINDER (Ref: Pinder D/DLI 7/538/1)
- Lieutenant Frank PINDER (Ref: Pinder D/DLI 7/935/1-3(51))
- 4438949 Platoon Sergeant-Major George PINKNEY, D.C.M. (Ref: Pinkney D/DLI 7/539/1-8)
- Bandsman T. E. PITT (Ref: Pitt D/DLI 7/540/1)
- Captain R. Ian PITT (Ref: Pitt D/DLI 7/936/1)
- 10963 Company Quartermaster-Sergeant Isaac PLEWS (Ref: Plews D/DLI 7/541/1-29)
- 2046 Sergeant John William PLEWS (Ref: Plews D/DLI 7/542/1-5)
- 14425435 Private Norman POLLARD, M.M. (Ref: Pollard D/DLI 7/543/1)
- 4607255 Private John POLLOCK (Ref: Pollock D/DLI 7/544/1)
- 7673463 Warrant Officer I Thomas Victor POMFRET (Ref: Pomfret D/DLI 7/937/1-8)
- 91526 Private H. A. POSTLES (Ref: Postles D/DLI 7/545/1-3)
- Second Lieutenant W. Edward POTTER (Ref: Potter D/DLI 7/546/1)
- 78424 Private Herbert POULTER, M.M. (Ref: Poulter D/DLI 7/938/1)
Catalogue Contents
1/6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry (also 1/5th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, no. 4164)
Born Brandon, Durham; enlisted Ferry Hill; killed in action, 23 April 1917
5th Battalion and 27th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Born, 1895; enlisted, August 1914; 31 August 1914 - [1915], 5th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, (No. 5-2667); [1915] - 28 November 1917, 27th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, (No. 375449); discharged 1917 after losing an eye; died, 1984. Medals in DLI Medal Collection.
5th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
Born Hartlepool 1890; residence 49 High Street, East Hartlepool; commissioned 1908; served with 2/5th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry during First World War, at Salonika from 1916 to 1918; died 1978. Cigarette box in DLI Objects Collection.
2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Enlisted, c. 1919 - 1920; Lance-Corporal, c.1923; Corporal, 'D' Company, 1926; Sergeant, 2nd Battalion, 1930; taken prisoner of war at St. Venant, France, 1940; P.O.W. no. 2895 at Stalag XXIB, Germany. Medals in DLI Medal Collection.
The Durham Light Infantry
Of Stockton-on-Tees
8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
Ref: D/DLI 7/936/12nd Battalion and 3rd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Born, 1891; enlisted 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, 7 July 1910; served overseas, 1915 - 1916 (Battle of Hooge); invalided home; Company Sergeant-Major, 3rd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry; discharged, 19 April 1919. Medals in DLI Medal Collection. Had a younger brother, Albert Edward Plews.
2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Born Sadberge; attested, Sunderland, 14 February 1880, aged 18; 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, February 1880 - 22 March 1886; discharged, 1892; Army Reserve, 19 February 1892 - 18 February 1896; 3rd Royal Northern Reserve (no. 388), 4 April 1900 - 3 April 1901; medals: Egyptian Medal and Khedive's Star. Medals in DLI Medal Collection.
10th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Ref: D/DLI 7/543/12nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Born Sunderland; residence Sunderland; killed in action, France and Belgium, 25 May 1940
70th (Young Soldiers) Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
Attached from Army Education Corps
9th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Attested, 26 March 1917; discharged [1919]
18th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Ref: D/DLI 7/546/113th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
Born c. 1900; awarded the Military Medal 3 March 1919 for bravery in the Field, rescuing an officer under fire; died in 1958.