A COUNTY Durham man is to tell of his quest to discover the fate of three of his uncles in the First World War.

Jack Cavanagh, chairman of the local branch of the Western Front Association, will give a talk, entitled In Search of Three Uncles at the Durham Light Infantry museum, in Durham City, on February 3.

"Some families lost up to two members in the Great War, but I was one of the few whose combined families lost four out of eight who had enlisted," said Mr Cavanagh, "

"I knew the details of my mother's brother, but of the others I knew nothing, and there was no one left to ask.

"In Search of Three Uncles is the story of how I found out about them."

Mr Cavanagh knew that the Moore family of three sisters and five brothers were all born in Blackhill, Consett. All the brothers enlisted in 1914 and, while he knew of the two who survived the conflict, he did not even know what the other three looked like.

After much research he discovered that one uncle, Henry, joined the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1914 and was killed in 1916. Henry's brother Joseph was killed in the same regiment in 1918, while the third, John, was killed serving with the DLI during the Battle of the Somme, in 1916.

Tickets for the talk are available from the DLI museum and are priced at £3.50, with a £2.50 concession. The talk starts at 2pm.