A Selection of Links

The following links were kindly provided by Durham County Record Office.

They have been busy working on an 8 DLI story for Durham at War, linked to the recent Swiss Centenary commemorations at St. Peter’s, Chateau d’Oex, for the first British POWs to arrive in Switzerland:

St Peter’s, Chateau d’Oex – 1914-1918 War: Centenary
http://stpeters.ch/ww1-centenary-event-29-may-2016/

Durham at War links:

Elliot Angus Leybourne (1889-1950)

8 DLI officer interned in Switzerland as prisoner of war

http://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/story/12221/

Report of capture and imprisonment in Germany by Angus Leybourne, May 1916

8 DLI officer interviewed by the Committee on the Treatment of British Prisoners of War

http://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/material/571/

Reports by Lieutenant Colonel H Picot on visits to interned British Prisoners of War

Letters concerning the visit of Miss Kirkup to Chateau d'Oex, Switzerland, November 1916

http://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/material/572/

Yours to a Cinder - the correspondence of an 8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry prisoner of war

The letters of Angus Leybourne and Connie Kirkup, 1915-1917

http://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/material/593/

Constance Dora 'Connie' Kirkup (1889-1950)

Matron at Birtley munitions hospital whose wartime romance took her to Switzerland

http://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/story/12522/

Diary of Constance 'Connie' Kirkup, January 1917

Story of a journey out to Switzerland to visit her prisoner of war fiancé

http://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/material/590/