Top Tweets for #WWOne

The damaged Durham Light Infantry brass shoulder title belonging to 2568 Corporal George Harding of 1/5th DLI, with the lump of shell casing which struck it, wounding George in the shoulder, but preventing a much worse injury. He cut the shoulder strap from his damaged Service Dress jacket as a souvenir of his narrow escape. George and his Brother Henry (whose number was four digits after George’s - 2572) were from Darlington and enlisted into D or E Company of the 1/5th Battalion in September 1914 and landed in France with the rest of 150 Brigade in the 50th (Northumbrian) Territorial Division on 17th April 1915. George survived the war, but sadly, Henry was killed on 27th May 1918 during the Third Battle of the Aisne. The German advance was brought to a halt three days later. Henry is buried in Marfaux British Cemetery. He was aged 30. 1/2