Durham Light Infantry Association

Monthly Bulletin for May:

Monthly Bulletin for May 2020 can be viewed  HERE

County Durham remembers VE Day 1945

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Exhibition contents

 1. 'We have come through' - Remembering VE Day 1945
 2. 9th Battalion DLI: From D-Day to Berlin
 3. 9th Battalion DLI: VE Day
 4. 9th Battalion DLI: In Berlin, June - September 1945
 5. Berlin Victory Parade, 7 September 1945
 6. Victory Parade at Belsen, 8 May 1945
 7. The Northern Echo, Victory edition, 9 May 1945
 8. 2nd Battalion DLI: Burma 1945
 9. 2nd Battalion DLI: Rangoon Victory Parade, 15 June 1945
10. VE Day and the Durham Miners' Association
11. VE Day and Durham Schools
12. County Durham celebrates VE Day
13. Haswell Victory Celebrations, 1945
14. Soldier: Victory Souvenir edition, 8 May 1945
15. Parade: European Victory edition, 26 May 1945
16. VE Day not forgotten by one Spennymoor family
17. County Durham celebrates VJ Day
18. Victory Day, 8 June 1946

Images © reproduced with kind permission of: 

• Trustees of the former DLI
• Newsquest Media Group Ltd  
• Newcastle Chronicle and Journal
• Durham Miners' Association
• Beamish Museum.

VE Day in Durham archive resource pack for Key Stage 2.

More about VE Day 75 at Durham County Council.