Officers of the 5th Durham Light Infantry
Group photograph of officers of taken before November 1916
In the photograph can be seen:
-Standing from left to right:
Godfrey Laird Rutherford,
Mentioned in Dispatches 21/12/1917; Military Cross 1/1/1919; Entered France 18/4/1915; 2nd Lieutenant 15/9/1914 Lieutenant 7/2/1916; Norton on Tees.
Guy John Hamilton Ashwin,
Entered France 18/4/1915; 2nd Lieutenant 9/9/1914; Killed in Action 7/11/1916; Buried Plot I, Row B, Grave 11, Warlencourt British Cemetery, France; Wath on Dearne ,Yorkshire.
William Noel Jobson Moscrop,
Mentioned in Dispatches 1/1/1916; Military Cross 1/1/1917; Entered France 18/4/1915; Lieutenant 29/8/1914; Captain & Adjutant; Killed in Action 27/5/1918; Buried Vendresse British Cemetery, France; Ashcroft Darlington.
Martin James Morrison,
Entered France 18/4/1915; 2nd Lieutenant 29/8/1914; Lieutenant 27/3/1915; Captain? Military Cross 4/6/1917; 1st Bar to Military Cross 16/9/1918; 2nd Bar to Military Cross 24/9/1918; Faceby Manor, Stokesley, Yorks.
-On the ground:
F. Greville-Jones,
Entered France 12/6/1915, 2nd Lieutenant 2/12/1914. Eventualy attached to 53rd battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment in UK. Emigrated to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, after the war.
Date: pre-1916
Contributed by John Sheen | Durham at War Volunteer