1st Durham Rifle Volunteers 5th Bn Durham Light Infantry 54th (DLI) Searchlight Regiment, RA 55th (DLI) Searchlight Regiment, RA 113th Light AA Regiment, RA 589 (DLI) S/L Regiment, RA 590 (DLI) LAA Regiment, RA
Active
1860–1967
Country
United Kingdom
Branch
Territorial Army
Role
Infantry Air Defence
Part of
50th (Northumbrian) Division Anti-Aircraft Command 21st Army Group
Garrison/HQ
Stockton-on-Tees
Nickname(s)
Stockton Volunteers
Engagements
Second Boer War First World War:
2nd Ypres
Flers–Courcelette
Arras
Passchendaele
German spring offensive
Second World War
Battle of Britain
The Blitz
North West Europe
Rhine Crossing
Military unit
The 1st Durham Rifle Volunteers, later the 5th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry (5th DLI), was a part-time unit of the British Army from 1860 to the 1950s. Beginning from small independent corps of the Volunteer Force recruited in County Durham and Teesside, it became part of the Territorial Force and served as infantry in some of the bloodiest actions of the First World War. Later it was converted to anti-aircraft units that served during the Second World War both in Home Defence and in North-West Europe. Its successor units continued in the air defence role in the postwar Territorial Army until 1975.
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