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Sherwood Foresters - War Diary of the 1/5th Battalion, 1 July 1916
Monday 15th Jul 2019 by SLHS   view article...

Red Cross Society - Somercotes Auxiliary
Monday 9th Jul 2018 by SLHS   view article...

Birchwood St. John's Ambulance Corps Volunteers, 1914
Tuesday 27th Dec 2016 by SLHS   view article...

Roll of Honour for Serving Soldiers, April 1915
Wednesday 7th Dec 2016 by SLHS   view article...

Pye Bridge Peace Celebrations, 1919
Tuesday 8th Nov 2016 by SLHS   view article...

Ernest Best MM - a Pye Bridge Soldier
Thursday 13th Oct 2016 by SLHS   view article...

Sherwood Foresters at Gommecourt, 1 July 1916
Thursday 22nd Sep 2016 by SLHS   view article...

Unveiling of the Somercotes War Memorial, 1927
Monday 19th Sep 2016 by SLHS   view article...

Somercotes Peace Celebration - 6 August 1919
Sunday 18th Sep 2016 by SLHS   view article...

Fete for the Somercotes Fallen - 17 August 1917
Friday 16th Sep 2016 by SLHS   view article...

Why so many men from Somercotes joined the Northumberland Fusiliers
Monday 16th May 2016 by SLHS   view article...