103rd (Tyneside Irish) Brigade
103rd (Tyneside Irish) Brigade
Subname: 103rd (Tyneside Irish) Brigade 34th Division
Formed in Newcastle between October 1914 and January 1915. Recruited around 70% of its men from County Durham.
The Durham at War blog has an ongoing series of posts about the Brigade’s journey to the Somme:
http://ww1countydurham.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-tyneside-irish-and-somme-part-1-to.html
http://ww1countydurham.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/the-tyneside-irish-and-somme-part-2.html
http://ww1countydurham.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/the-tyneside-irish-and-somme-part-3.html
http://ww1countydurham.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/the-tyneside-irish-and-somme-part-4.html
http://ww1countydurham.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/the-tyneside-irish-and-somme-part-5.html
Contributed by John Sheen
