English: The weir which was the scene of the Guyzance Tragedy, near Guyzance, Northumberland, England, UK. On 17 January 1945, ten soldiers drowned while taking part in a military exercise at Guyzance, on the River Coquet, in Northumberland. The river was in full flood and their boat was swept over the weir and capsized. The men, all aged 18, were weighed down by full combat gear and drowned. In 1995, a memorial service was held to mark the 50th anniversary of the tragedy and a plaque was erected, which now stands in the way of a redevelopment.

The date on this memorial is different from the plaque near by (see "File:GuyzanceTragedyPlaque(LesHull)Feb2007.jpg"). This memorial states 15 January as the date of the tragedy, while the plaque states 17 January. According to David Lauckner, the dates are different because Charlie Dick, the person who carved the plaque, of Felton, Northumberland, incorrectly assumed that the date of a memorial service held in Felton on the Sunday nearest to the incident was the date of the tragedy itself, which actually occurred on 17 January. Changing the 5 to a 7 was apparently not possible, and the error was accepted by the regiments concerned.

According to a talk given by Mrs. Vera Vaggs, a prime mover in gaining recognition for the ten soldiers who died in the tragedy, Charlie Dick carved the plaque at the top commemorating the incident first, and added the plaque at the bottom with the soldiers' names later on. The stone with the engraved plate was added to the site in 2004 by the Darlington and Aycliffe Branch of the Durham Light Infantry (DLI) Association. The poem on the memorial stone was also written by Dick.