Royal Artillery

Northumbrian Gunners

Friday, 16 November 2012

Remembrance Sunday 2012

Veterans prepare to lay wreaths Eldon Square 2012
Source: ChronicleLive.co.uk

 
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QM and CO 101 Regiment RA (V)
"Raspberry ripple please"

Thursday, 15 November 2012

Remembrance - TS Earsdon

Small ceremony at the graves of two fallen Tyneside Scots burried in Earsdon St Alban Churchyard with the Tyneside Scottish Association.
Earsdon St Alban
 
Tyneside Scottish Association Earsdon (St Alban) Churchyard

Private Peter Lockey

Private Peter Lockey died siddenly 30th January 1915, and is recorded as the first casualty of the Tyneside Scottish in the Great War.

Private Dannie Bell
Private Dannie Bell was wounded on the Somme, probably on 1st July. He sirvived World War One, but finally sucumbed to his wounds in May 1919.




Monday, 5 November 2012

Saltwell Park 2012 - Field of Remembrance

Saltwell Towers Gateshead
 
Saltwell Park Gateshead
Field of Remembrance
 
Saltwell Park Gateshead
Field of Remembrance
 
 
 
 Saltwell Park Gateshead
6th / 8th / 9th DLI Memorial

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Saltwell Park Gateshead
6th / 8th / 9th DLI Memorial
 
In Memory of Private Matthew Stephenson
8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
Lost as a POW on SS Scillin
14th November 1942
 
 
Commemorated on the  Alamein Memorial