Welcome to Men of the 6th Durham Light Infantry – the aim of this site us not to look at the battalion as a whole but at the men who made up the battalion.
Please remember to visit our companion sites for the war diary of the 6th DLI and the war diary of the 7th DLI.
Looking for Irish (Co. Mayo, but especially Ballina soldiers. Thanks and good luck with your work. PJC.
Greetings, I found your web page as a result of the great war forum. I have a 14-15 trio in my collection to a Frederick Robinson 3081 DLI. His mic has France 30/10/15 which is all the information I can find on him. His discharge certificate states Ripon as his enlistment and discharge.
Not sure if this helps. Cheers Ed
Thanks
Fred wasn’t a member of the 6th DLI (at least not when the number 3081 was allocated) – this suggests him as having (originally at least) been a 5th,8th or 9th DLI man. In all of the battalions the number 3081 was allocated around Oct/Nov 1914.
It’s odd that his medal card doesn’t show anything other than a 4 digit number, this suggests that by 1917 he was either discharged, on home service only, or he had transferred and his card wasn’t updated.
Craig