Photo: James Pasby
Photo: James Pasby
Photo: James Pasby
Photo: James Pasby
Photo: James Pasby
Panel 1
To commemorate the conferment by the
through the city on all ceremonial
Panel 2
City Council on Durham Light
occasions with bayonets fixed
Panel 3
Infantry of the right of marching
colours flying and bands playing
(To commemorate the conferment by the City Council on Durham Light Infantry of the right of marching through the city on all ceremonial occasions with bayonets fixed colours flying and bands playing)
Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail 29/11/1951 reads:- In six panels the window shows Durham Cathedral, the City coat of arms and the familiar bugle-badge of the regiment in its upper sections while across the lower part marches the Durham Light Infantry Colour Escort bearing the King's and the Regimental Colours.
Executed at a cost of £500, the window commemorates the granting of the Freedom of the City of the County Regiment on the 15th March 1944.
The window was unveiled by Brigadier J.A. Churchill, Colonel of the Regiment on 28th November 1951. Also taking part in the ceremony were the Mayor of Durham (Coun. J.R.W. Rae) the Lord Lieutenant of the County (Lord Lawson),the Bishop of Durham (Dr A.T. Williams, the president of the D.L.I. Association (Col. Sir Thomas A. Bradford) and the deputy Mayor (Coun. Mrs H.H. Rutherford.
Among the 300 guests and members of the public present were representatives of the three Services, ex-Service and pre-Service organizations.
Brigadier Churchill announced that the 1st Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry was earmarked to go to Korea next September (1952).