The Last Dive of HM/SM Unity – The Time Capsuled Heroes of Cresswell
Cresswell holds its secrets as close as any wartime Admiralty file marked ‘Top Secret’. A casual visitor gazing out to sea from the car park
Category: Personal Stories
Air Raid – a Home Lost
by Sheila Johnson My parents, Elizabeth and James Bruce lived with their three children at 49 City Road, Newcastle. The houses, which still stand today,
2/Lt Albert Straker, 7th Northumberland Fusiliers
Lt Straker had earlier survived the debacle of High Wood on 15/16 September 1916 when the 50th Division was ordered to advance with its right
Donald Clarke – Pride of the Red Duster
born: 05/03/1923 Chester le Street, Durham. died. 08/09/1942 at sea. DATE AND PLACE OF George Cross Action: 08-09/08/1942 off coast of Trinidad. ‘Donald Owen Clarke
Home Guard killed by Grenade – Bellingham
A verdict of accidental death was returned at an inquest in Hexham on George William Glendinning, a 31 year old Forestry worker of Bewshaugh near
Whitley P4952 – Bellingham
Whitley P4952 took off from RAF Leeming late in the evening of 14th October 1940. One of 7 aircraft, its mission was to bomb the
Beaufighter NE595 – Kefalonia
On the 19th July 1944 603 Squadron Beaufighter NE595 took off from RAF Gambut in Libya with two other aircraft to carry out an offensive
Archibald Bone
Private Archibald Bone (386084) of 1st/1st Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, born Newcastle on 8th April 1895. He enlisted with the Territorial Army