Shooting Match

Trow Rocks 3rd Durham Artillery 27th March 1860

South Shields Veterans Crimean Indian Campaigns

See S86.104 for further details.

A photograph of Third Durham Artillery at the first drill on 27th March 1860 appears in Picture of South Shields, 1979, Borough of South Shields, ISBN 0 906617 01 4 . The men are identified as being:

J. Salmon;
J. Wright;
Cassidy;
Sherwin;
T. Pike;
T.G. Mabane;
English;
R. Blair;
G. Lawson.

Also featured are:
Departure of South Shields Veterans: Crimean War and Indian Mutiny Veterans, leaving their Headquarters, Creggs café, Laygate Lane for Inspection by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales at Newcastle 29th June 1908.

See Document report and S86.55