This wonderful photograph shows a group of soldiers from the Durham Light Infantry who are probably celebrating the end of World War I. Courtesy of Bob Irwin. 
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
This wonderful photograph shows a group of soldiers from the Durham Light Infantry who are probably celebrating the end of World War I. Courtesy of Bob Irwin.
Picture Stockton Archive 
My Father is sitting on the left with a helmet on and a cigarette in his mouth. He was 1st in the KOYLI’s and finished when demobbed in Cologne on the 18th December1919 from the 20th (P) Batallion of the DLI. The Batallion was sent to Germany at the end of the War to do major clearing up. This is why his demob was in 1919.
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