Clive Bowery’s Home Web Page
Clive Bowery’s Home Web Page
This is me, for more information about myself, click anywhere in the photo
The photograph below is of Chester-le-Street World War Memorial which was opened in 1925 and removed in 1962. I am particularly interested in military history, especially The Great War. For more details of the memorial, click anywhere within it..
For my sins I have taken groups from the Durham Light Infantry Association on tours to the First World War Batlefields in France and Belgium and to the Normandy D-Day Landing Beaches in northern France.
In September 2000 a party from the DLI Association were in Ieper, Belgium to attend the burial of an unknown DLI soldier, his remains having been unearthed some 80+ years after the end of WWI. by a group known as the ‘Diggers’. Upon returning home I wrote an article for the Light Infantry Silver Bugle magazine about the visit. The place where the soldier’s remains were found is described on the Diggers web site and our visit took place on September 23rd 2000. To see pictures and learn more about the location click here.
For a newspaper report from the Sunderland Echo of the 2002 WWI tour click here.
In April 2004 I took a party to the Normandy D-Day landing beaches. In the party was Chris Lloyd, a reporter from a local newspaper The Northern Echo. As part of the newspapers coverage of the 60th Anniversary of D-Day, a series of articles appeared concerning some D-Day veterans who were on the tour. To learn more, use the links below.
Part 2: D-Day remembered; From the heat of the ship’s hold into the cold of the water.
Part 3: The Durhams D-Day Diary- Sgt Charles Eagles.
Part 4: Gunfire so intense that it scythed through the corn