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Artist’s Death

... At the outbreak of World War I. s in Spain, and he returned home to join the 4th Gordons. After being wounded in the battle of the Somme, he was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artiliery, with which he served until the end of the war. Mr Murray has lectured ...

Published: Monday 14 June 1954
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ARGYLLS HONOUR WAR DEAD

... Col. E. P. Buchanan, Colcmel of the Battalion, of a tablet in the parish church in memory of the men who fell in the Battle of the Somme —the Battalion's own St Valery, for they were cut off and captured round Franleu. The Provost Stirling, with Baillie ...

Published: Tuesday 13 June 1950
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Former North Bank Employee Mr James R. Forbes. 232 Mugiemoss Road, Bucksburn. a former employee of the North of ..

... Street Aberdeen office as a clerk. He left in 1914 to join the Army, but was discharged on niedica grounds after the Battle of the Somme where he was wounded and gassed. Since that time he worked on a farm at the Bridge of Don until his retirement seven ...

Published: Monday 16 July 1951
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 342 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Former North Bank Employee Mr James R. Forbes. 232 Mugiemoss Road, Bueksburn. a former employee of the North of ..

... Street Aberdeen office as a clerk. He left in 1914 to join the Army, but was discharged on medica: grounds after the Battle of the Somme where he was wounded and gassed. Since that time he worked on a farm at the Bridge of Don until his retirement seven ...

Published: Monday 16 July 1951
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 341 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Buchan Note Book

... Aitken. Apart from the distinction which he has gained as an artist Mr Simpson was awarded the Military Cross after the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Visitors to the exhibition will quickly recognise many of the views which the artist has reproduced and will ...