This part of the site features a selection of first-person memories of the 16th Durham Light Infantry in 1940-46. This section will grow considerably as I find time to transcribe the various informal taped interviews I recorded, both person-to-person and over the telephone, with several veterans in 1995-2000. Also to be included are some highly evocative articles that were first published in the Battalion Magazine Geordie in 1945-46. Special thanks again to Alex ‘Jock’ Gray for loaning me his set of these now very rare magazines from which some of these items have been transcribed. Please note though that all memories relating to the Battle of Sedjenane in February-March 1943 have been placed in their own special section of the web site.
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