Durham Light Infantry - Other Rank PoWs 1914

This is an extract of men from the 1st and 2nd Battalions, Durham Light Infantry, who were captured by the enemy and became Prisoners of War on or before the 25th December 1914. Read more about this data source on my 1914 PoWs page. This data is taken from two lists sent to Sir Ernest Goodhart: an undated hand-written list (source unknown) and a typed list sent by the Colonel in Charge of Infantry Records, York on the 20th January 1919.  My full transcription of this DLI data (not reproduced here) also contains the following information:

Battalion
Home address
Next of Kin
Next of Kin address

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There are 184 men on this list, men the BEF could ill-afford to lose:

8630 Lance-Corporal W J Aldridge, 10578 Private W Allison, 8658 Private J Arnott, 10954 Private E Ashford, 10461 Private E E Aylin

11216 Corporal R D Bagnall, 6671 Private W Baker, 8996 Private Robert W Bamborough, 10601 Sergeant E W Barber, 7711 Corporal D Barr, 8988 Lance-Corporal W Beattie, 11472 Lance-Corporal F Beedham, 8668 Private J Bell, 6955 Private W Bell, 11341 Private C Benbow, 10444 Private T Bennett, 7425 Private J Berry, 9595 Corporal W W Berry, 10890 Sergeant J W Bilton, 7767 Private J Bird, 11343 Lance-Corporal George F Blanchard, 9275 Private A E Bonner, 9151 Private R Boote, 6611 Private A E Bowman, 10888 Private H D Brew, 10057 Private M Brophy, 8994 Private Robert Henry Brown, 8885 Private M Burke, 11587 Private E Butler

10909 Sergeant F Calder, 8760 Private W Carr, 10249 Private A Carter, 7940 Private J W Carter, 8828 Private W Cawood, 9079 Private T A Chambers, 11588 Private J Clinton, 11553 Private A Cogdon, 11737 Private W Coker, 9115 Private Isaac Collier, 8400 Private J Cooper, 10727 Private W J Cooper, 9007 Lance-Corporal J Cowie, 10438 Sergeant J H Creber, 8729 Private M Crooks, 7525 Private T Crowther, 8559 Private S E Cuttriss

11090 Corporal H Davies, 8989 Private G Dawson, 8394 Lance-Corporal J Dawson, 9147 Private W Dempster, 8027 Private John Devlin, 10278 Private R Dixon, 6908 Private G Donnelly, 7432 Private P Donnelly, 11027 Private J Donohue, 3/10684 Private T G Dunlop, 7777 Private T Dunn

11480 Private R W Eales, 8531 Private G Egglestone, 6816 Private S Elsdon, 8355 Private G Evans, 11391 Private J Evans

8925 Private R Farbridge, 8719 Private R Farley, 6463 Private J Farrer, 11445 Private R Featherstone, 9109 Private E Ford, 8892 Private C Foreman, 8037 Private J W Frame, 8369 Private Fraser, 9172 Lance-Corporal C A Friend

11314 Private G Garbut, 9710 Private T Gibson, 7537 Private I Gilbert, 8375 Private T Gillespie, 6549 Private A Gleason, 11463 Private W Goodall, 9251 Private C Graham, 8689 Private W Griffiths, 11546 Private D Grosvenor, 11545 Private J W Grosvenor

8654 Private J Hackworth, 9130 Private J Hall, 8909 Private J L Halse, 7264 Private H Hamer, 11126 Private H Hamer, 11126 Private H Hamer, 11644 Private Alfred Hanley, 9189 Private T V F Harland, 8633 Private W Harrison, 6767 Private W Hatfield, 7870 Private T G Haycock, 10321 Private D Hayward, 7761 Private W Heseltine, 8638 Private G Hicks, 8610 Private G Hildrew, 8523 Private G Hill, 8964 Private R Hill, 8328 Private J Hindes, 10491 Private D Hogan, 6895 Private M Hopper, 10459 Private J Horrigan, 5783 Private A J Hunt, 8045 Private W Huntley, 7876 Private W L Hurst

9013 Private E James, 8991 Private W James, 9592 Private J Jeffrey, 11490 Private G Johnson, 8318 Private M Johnson

11551 Private J Kelly, 8015 Private T Kelly, 6678 Private W Kettlewell, 10017 Private Harry W Kimpton, 11298 Private Mathew W Kitching

9092 Private J Lambell, 10813 Private W Lane, 8916 Private J Lark, 8730 Private E J Laws, 7769 Private R Lemin, 10713 Private N Lobb, 8396 Private J Longthorne, 7213 Lance-Corporal J Lumsden

11034 Corporal G J Madden, 6781 Private W Marten, 8859 Private A Matson, 6672 Private J Maughan, 7538 Private T McCarthy, 8931 Lance-Corporal A McCormack, 10571 Private N McCruden, 8422 Private P McGirr, 8725 Private J McGowan, 7511 Private R McLean, 8623 Private J McMann, 9648 Private A McMullen, 7123 Private J Milburn, 11491 Private F Murphy, 8962 Private C Murray

7011 Private F Newby, 8488 Private E Noon

10977 Lance-Corporal William H Orton

9550 Private J Padget, 8813 Private T W Phillipson, 10251 Private T Pine, 11203 Corporal J Powell, 11503 Private G Priestman

10943 Lance-Sergeant E W Radford, 11439 Private J Raisbeck, 10787 Private H Read, 6541 Private A Reeves, 8326 Private A Rhodes, 8893 Private E Richardson, 7265 Lance-Corporal R Robinson, 8703 Private W Robson, 11651 Private E Rocks, 9411 Private William Roker, 11648 Private F S Rolstone, 8430 Lance-Corporal F Rowlands, 7415 Private J Rutherford

10224 Private F Sawyer, 8044 Private J Scott, 8867 Private J Scott, 5642 Private R Scott, 8472 Private B Sloan, 10043 Private H P Smeeth, 9551 Private A Smith, 7500 Private C Smith, 11262 Private Horace Smith, 8542 Private J Smith, 8576 Private A Snowdon, 7426 Private John W Spinks, 8389 Private S Stark, 10308 Private T Stoker

7269 Private F Thompson, 6835 Private J Tierney, 11544 Lance-Corporal W Toole, 8351 Private T Tumilty, 8564 Private D Turnock

11502 Private Frederick G White, 11329 Private George Whitfield, 11523 Private J Whyatt, 7993 Private Andrew Wilkie, 5132 Private Charles Delhoy Wilson, 8824 Private Thomas Wilson, 8612 Private Joseph Wolstenholme, 7558 Private J Woolley

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