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List of those who served with the The 18th Battalion Durham Light Infantry during The Great War.
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18th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry was raised in Durham on 10 September 1914 as a "Pals" battalion. The first casualty of enemy action on British soil during the Great War was Private Theophilus Jones aged 29 who was killed on the 16th December 1914 at Heugh Battery, Hartlepool when a German naval taskforce bombarded the town, he was one of six men of the battlion to die in the bombardment, with a further eleven being wounded.
In May 1915 the 18th DLI was attached to 93rd Brigade, 31st Division and set sail for Egypt in December 1915 to defend the Suez Canal. The division was transferred to France in March 1916 for teh preparation for the Battle of the Somme in July 1916.
The 31st Division took over the front line opposite the village of Serre, the northern most point of the Somme line. On the morning of the 1st of July, D Company of the 18th DLI were in the first wave of the attack and were situated to the southern edge of the village of Serre, with the 15th and 16th West Yorks, they suffered heavy losses but a few men of D Company managed to reach their objective, Pennant Copse. The other companies of 18th DLI were in the second wave with the 18th West Yorks but made now headway and were held in reserve.
The 18th DLI would later see acrtion in the Battles of the Ancre, Scarpe, Bapaume, Arras, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Flanders and Ypres.
List of those who served with the The 18th Battalion Durham Light Infantry during The Great War.
- Pte Thomas Darling Bowran (d. 12 Apr 1918)
- Pvt. R B Brown, No 18/218 (Wounded 16 Dec 1914 at Hartlepool)
- Pvt. Charles Stephen Clarke, No 18/707. (Acting Lance Corporal) (Killed 16 Dec 1914 at Hartlepool) age 25
- Lcpl Thomas Henry Corner. C Coy (d. 30th Sept 1918)
- Pvt. T W Dees, No 18/255 (Wounded 16 Dec 1914 at Hartlepool)
- Pvt. Robert Garrett, No 18/273. (Wounded 16 Dec 1914 at Hartlepool)
- Sjt J A Gorrie.
- John Harper. (d. 28 July 1917)
- Thomas Oran Herring (d. 25th July 1916)
- Pvt Theophilus Jones, No 18/295. (Killed 16 Dec 1914 at Hartlepool) age 29
- Pvt. D Lamb, No 18/313 (Wounded 16 Dec 1914 at Hartlepool)
- Pvt. J W Lewis, No 13679 (Wounded 16 Dec 1914 at Hartlepool)
- Pvt. Alex Olliffe Liddle, No 18/107. (Acting Corporal) (Killed 16 Dec 1914 at Hartlepool) age 25
- L/Cpl A Metcalfe 18/543
- Pvt. Thomas Minks, No 18/328. (Died of wounds 16 Dec 1914 at Hartlepool)age 25
- Richard Foster Ord
- Pvt. G H Powell, No 18/943 (Wounded 16 Dec 1914 at Hartlepool)
- Captain D S Phorson
- Lt. G K Raine (d. 2nd July 1916 aged 19)
- Pvt. L H Robinson, No 18/372 (Wounded 16 Dec 1914 at Hartlepool)
- Pvt. Walter Rogers, No 18/369. (Killed 16 Dec 1914 at Hartlepool)age 25
- Pvt. Thomas Rutherford, No 18/1075. (Wounded 16 Dec 1914 at Hartlepool)
- Lance Corporal Henry Arthur Scott, No 18/844. (Wounded 16 Dec 1914 at Hartlepool)
- Pte D Simmons
- Pvt. J A Simpson, No 18/389 (Wounded 16 Dec 1914 at Hartlepool)
- James Arthur Uren Thompson.
- Pvt. Leslie Dobson Turner, No 18/398. (Killed 16 Dec 1914 at Hartlepool)age 24
- Pvt. G J Wandless, No 18/403 (Wounded 16 Dec 1914 at Hartlepool)
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