When did the DLI’s New Army battalions go into action in the First World War?
The DLI New Army volunteers had been in training since the early months of the war in 1914. The 10th Battalion DLI was the first in action in the trenches in June 1915 but then in September 1915 the 14th and 15th Battalions were sent straight from landing in France into the Battle of Loos. The Durhams lost over 750 men killed or wounded in this attack.
