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Newcastle Battalions (First World War Exhibition)
27th October - 12th November
FREENewcastle raised more battalions of volunteer soldiers that saw active service than any other British provincial city during the First World War. The first full battalion of Kitchener’s Army, the Tyneside Scottish and the Tyneside Irish Brigades and pre-war Territorial Battalions of The Northumberland Fusiliers were all raised here, and all of them served at some point during the Battles of the Somme between July and November 1916.
This small temporary exhibition pays tribute to the lads of Newcastle and Northumberland who answered their country’s call.
The display was created in 2016 with support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland, the Friends of St Nicholas, Newcastle Libraries, Billy Embleton and Stephen Elliott. Images courtesy of the Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland and Neil Storey Archive.
