00:01A rare First World War ledger has been returned to the northeast after being discovered at a car
00:06boot sale hundreds of miles away. The register lists about 900 local volunteers who signed up
00:11in December 1915 under the Derby scheme, the final national recruitment drive before conscription.
00:19Many of those people were shipyard workers from Palmer's Shipbuilding in Jarrah who signed up
00:24after a German Zeppelin raid that killed 17 workers and injured 72. The ledger was discovered in Essex
00:31and later bought by the Durham Light Infantry Friends. It's now on display in Durham. Experts
00:38say items like this are very rare as many were meant to be destroyed after the war.
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