Collection: Durham Light Infantry Collection

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Cornucopia)

  Arms and Armour

  The collections chart the history of the Durham Light Infantry from 1758-1968 and material related to the Durham Militia from 1717-1919, the Durham Volunteers from 1859-1908, the Volunteer Training Corp from World War 1 and the Durham Home Guard. The collection includes: Uniforms – full dress, battle dress, head dress, shirts, tunics, trousers and footwear; Equpiment – belts, webbing, packs and personal items; Weapons – machine guns, rifles, pistols, swords, bayonets, knives; Medals – over 3,000 awards and medals including 7 Victoria Crosses; Badges – full range; and other items including drums, Universal carrier, grave cross and locomotive engine plate.

  Ethnography

  Material includes items from Sudan, South East Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Australasia. An album of photographs taken when the 68th Light Infantry served in the Maori Wars in 1864-66 and other views from India, Burma, China, and the Middle East; these are in the Durham Record Office. Items include a Maori quarterstaff or ‘tewhatewha’, watercolours by Lt Horatio Gordon Robley of New Zealand and a Madhist ‘Jibbah’ from the Sudan.

  Library

  A collection of military history, regimental histories, works on badges and medals and the only complete set of the regimental journal dating from the 1890s. 18th and 19th centuries.

  Subjects

  Military History; Geography and History

  Source: Cornucopia

  Date: Not known, but before 2015

  Licence: CC BY-NC