Parish Notes
STOCKTON-ON-TEES

5th D.L.I. Colours laid up
The Newcastle Daily Chronicle 17/04/1922 reports:

"5th Durhams' Colours laid up.
The laying up of the colours of the Second Line, 5th Batt. Durham Light Infantry (T.F.) took place at the Stockton Parish Church on Saturday, when Col. G.O. Spence, C.B., D.S.O., formally handed them over to the custody of the Vicar (Rev. E.A. Douglas). The service was attended by the Mayors and Corporations of Darlington, Stockton and Thornaby, from which towns the battalion was recruited."