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Durham Light Infantry Records

Reference: D/DLI 8 Catalogue Title: Durham Light Infantry Records Area: Catalogue Category: Antiquarian and Composite Records Description: Durham Light Infantry Museum and Trustees, Phase 2

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DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY MUSEUM
AND TRUSTEES

The original museum of The Durham Light Infantry was opened
just after the First World War at Fenham Barracks in Newcastle upon
Tyne. In 1939 the regimental depot was moved to Brancepeth Castle, near
Durham City, where the museum remained until the depot closed in 1962.
The museum collection was stored at the regimental headquarters in Elvet
Waterside, Durham City, until a new museum, built at Aykley Heads in
Durham City, was opened in 1969.

RECORDS OF THE REGIMENTAL FUND AND MUSEUM
TRUSTEES
For records of the Regimental Fund Management Trustees see also D/DLI 1/3

Catalogue Contents

Durham Light Infantry Records (Ref: D/DLI)Financial (Ref: D/DLI 8/1/41-42)

Cash account book of the Trustees of The Durham Light Infantry Territorial, Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Fund, 19 November 1970 - 2 January 1979
(1 volume, card bound)


Cash account book of The Durham Light Infantry Charitable Fund, Light Infantry Office (Durham), 1 January 1979 - 1 June 1983 (1 volume, card bound) Correspondence

Correspondence of the Chairman of the Regimental Fund Committee concerning regimental silver (Ref: D/DLI 8/1/43)

Correspondence of the Chairman of the Durham Light Infantry Regimental Fund Committee, Spring Lodge, Barnard Castle, with the Chairman of Durham County Council; Lieutenant-Colonel E.B. Burini, The Eden Armoury, St. Andrew's Road, Bishop Auckland; the Chief Constable of Durham, Aykley Heads, Durham; the Mayor of Durham, the Regimental Secretary, The Light Infantry Office (Durham), Elvet Waterside, Durham; and the Town Clerk, County Borough of Hartlepool; and their successors, concerning the loan and insurance of the silver of the 3rd and 4th (Militia) Battalions, 3 December 1968 - 7 May 1979 Includes correspondence concerning Colonel Gerald Gray's medals
(1 file)

Correspondence of the chairman of the Management Trustees concerning the regimental museum (Ref: D/DLI 8/1/44)

Correspondence of Colonel W.I. Watson, chairman of The Durham Light Infantry Charitable Fund, and the curator of The Durham Light Infantry Museum with Mrs. A.B. Gray, The Little House, Lymington, Hampshire; Mrs. Joan Gray, 6 Hillcrest Road, Weymouth, Dorset; and Lieutenant C.R. Douglas Gray, Chilcombe, Greywell, Hampshire, concerning the medals of Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Cecil Gibson Gray and Major James Goring Gerald Gray, 18 March 1980 - 26 May 1988 Includes correspondence concerning Colonel Gerald Gray's medals
(22 papers)

Inventories (Ref: D/DLI 8/1/45-49)

Schedule of trust property of the former 1st and 2nd Battalions The Durham Light Infantry, held at Headquarters, Light Infantry Brigade, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, n.d. [after 1969]
(3 papers)


Schedule of trust property of the former 1st and 2nd Battalions The Durham Light Infantry held at the Regimental Museum, n.d. [after 1968]
(2 papers)


Schedule of trust property of the former 1st and 2nd Battalions The Durham Light Infantry held at Regimental Headquarters [Durham City], n.d. [after 1968]
(3 papers)


Copy schedule of property of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Battalions The Light Infantry, to be retained or transferred to the 1st and 2nd Battalions, n.d. [1993] Includes correspondence concerning Colonel Gerald Gray's medals
(19 papers, duplicated)


Property book of the former 6th and 6/8th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, 23 February 1969 - 1971
(1 volume, cloth bound)

The Durham Light Infantry Cup (Ref: D/DLI 8/1/50)

Photograph of The Durham Light Infantry Cup, formerly the Lahore Trades Cup, and a cricket bat, taken to mark the presentation of the cup by the D.L.I. Trustees to Durham County Cricket Club as a trophy to be played for between Durham and Yorkshire, n.d. [1992] (1 photograph, 30 cm. x 40 cm., black and white, card mounted; and 1 paper) RECORDS OF THE D.L.I. MUSEUM

Exhibitions (Ref: D/DLI 8/3/4)

'Silver Bugle', a catalogue of the 'Treasures of The Light Infantry' exhibition, held at the D.L.I. Museum and Arts Centre, Durham City, 11 September - 10 October 1982
(1 booklet, printed)