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 S: Sa to Sc
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- Durham Light Infantry Records
- 10241 Private Thomas SAMPSON (Ref: Sampson D/DLI 7/608/1)
- 1872 Bugler Thomas SANDERSON (Ref: Sanderson D/DLI 7/954/1-17)
- 4694485 Corporal Jack SAUNDERS, M.M. (Ref: Saunders D/DLI 7/609/1)
- Major Frederick Stuckeley SAVAGE (Ref: Savage D/DLI 7/150/1-4)
- 9547 Lance-Corporal Frederick SAWYER (Ref: Sawyer D/DLI 7/610/1-8)
- Private John SAWYER (Ref: Sawyer D/DLI 7/611/1)
- 4457331 Private Norman SAWYER (Ref: Sawyer D/DLI 7/612/1-6)
- 275527 Sergeant Norman SAXON (Ref: Saxon D/DLI 7/613/1-15)
- 3131746 Private Eddie SCARLETT (Ref: Scarlett D/DLI 7/614/1)
- 198243 Lieutenant Peter Rivett Dalton SCOTT (Ref: Scott D/DLI 7/615/1)
- 4450439 Colour Sergeant-Major Robert William SCOTT (Ref: Scott D/DLI 7/616/1-254)
- Captain James Alwyn Colville SCOTT, M.C. (Ref: Scott D/DLI 7/955/1-28)
- 200849 Private Thomas McCree SCOTT (Ref: Scott D/DLI 7/956/1-5)
- Colour-Sergeant William SCULL (Ref: Scull D/DLI 7/617/1-27)
Catalogue Contents
1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Ref: D/DLI 7/608/1'B' Company, 1/7th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
Died of wounds 25 May 1915. Medals in DLI Medal Collection.
16th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Awarded the Military Medal for bravery at Salerno, Italy, 13 September 1943. Medals in DLI Medal Collection.
68th Light Infantry
Entry in McGregor; born 1 July 1827; educated Eton College; Ensign 68th Foot 1846; Lieutenant 1847; Captain 1854; Brevet Major 1856; Major 1859; died 1866. Served with the 68th throughout the Crimean campaign, 1854-1855; transferred to the 86th Regiment of Foot in 1861.
In 1857 Major Savage edited an early regimental journal 'The Argo', which continued for six editions, as a forerunner to 'The Durham Light Infantry Gazette', produced in Rangoon in 1858.
Major Savage's diary was previously attributed to Captain Stephen Croft. More recent research, by the late John Bilcliffe and by Sidney Patterson, confirms that the 1855 diary was in fact written by Captain Savage.
2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Enlisted, 8 March 1906 in the 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, (no. 9547) [until after 7 June 1918]; discharged, 31 March 1920 from the Labour Corps (no. 611357)
The Durham Light Infantry
Killed in action, 1915
9th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Born County Durham; residence County Durham; killed in action, 26 May 1940
1/7th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Born Sunderland, 1893; enlisted as a private, September 1914; awarded Meritorious Service Medal on discharge in 1919; died Bournemouth, 1966. Medals in DLI Medal Collection.
'C' Company, 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Ref: D/DLI 7/614/1King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, attached to The Durham Light Infantry
Born Southport, Lancashire; residence Cheshire; killed in action, 21 - 22 March 1943 at Mareth, Tunisia, aged 22. Medals in DLI Medal Collection.
1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Enlisted, 14 August 1933; discharged, 13 August 1954; served with the Military Provost Staff Corps, 1941 - 1946, and the Wiltshire Regiment, 1947
Royal Army Medical Corps, attached 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
Born Gateshead, December 1886; trained as a doctor at Durham University; commissioned in Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorials) in June 1914; attached to 9th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, served as the battalion's Medical Officer throughout the First World War; wounded in July 1917 and July 1918; awarded the Military Cross three times during the war; also mentioned in despatches and awarded the French Croix de Guerre; remained with 9th Battalion until 1939; served in France and at home during the Second World War until retirement, as a Colonel, in May 1942; died Gateshead January 1960. Medals in DLI Medal Collection.
2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
Born 1881; residence 24 Robinson Street, Sunderland; artist, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1915; died 1926.
2nd Battalion and 4th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Royal Horse Artillery, no. 80127, 1890 - 1892; 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, no. 5374, 1895 - 1905; 4th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, no. 4/9147, 1905 - 1914