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... meters. An interesting illustrated brochure issued in connection with the centenary year recalls that the murderous - Battle of the Somme was in progress when, in July 1916, the firm sent out its millionth meter, and that the two-millionth meter was manufactured ...

Published: Tuesday 30 May 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1132 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON RECIPIENTS

... ; served in 1914-18 war . commissioned in 1 st Battalion King ' s Own Scottish Borderers , and wounderi in 1917 at battle of the Somme . Mr Daniel Lamontsurgeon consultant to the Gilbert Bain Memorial Hospital . Lerwick , is an F . R . C . S . Ed . and ...

Published: Thursday 08 June 1950
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5044 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ARGYLLSВ’ MEMORIAL UNVEILED

... children sang Auld Lang Syne. The battalion H.Q. was at Franleu when the 7th Argylls were off and captured after the battle of the Somme. ...

Published: Tuesday 13 June 1950
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 189 | Page: 2 | 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

‘‘SHOWN NO INTEREST”

... of service with the Gordon Highlanders in the 1914-18 war, in the bourse of which he was wounded three times in the battles of the Somme and Ypres. “We all hope,” the chairman remarked, “that Mr and Mrs Campbell will be long spared to enjoy their well-merited ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1950
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 971 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Anniversaries

... Thursday. September 14— Death of Duke of Wellington (the Iron Duke), 1852. Friday. September 15 Tanks first used in war, Battle of the Somme, 1916. Lunardi, an Italian, made the first successful balloon ascent in Britain, at London in 1784 Saturday. September ...

Published: Sunday 10 September 1950
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 100 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

TALES AND TRAILS OF SCOTS EXPLORERS

... outbreak of war in 1914, Bruce lent them to the 15th Battalion of the Royal Scots. They were lost in action at the Battle of the Somme, when the Pipe-Major playing them in the attack fell badly wounded. Bruce spent the first months of his voyage cruising ...

Published: Sunday 22 October 1950
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 418 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

12th and Lady

... Belhaven and Stenton is a daughter of Lieut. R. L. Binns of The Green Howards who was killed in action in the first battle of the Somme in 1916. During the last war she was actively engaged on inmyportant work in War Office branches of secret commissions ...

Published: Friday 03 November 1950
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 286 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

DAILY trcoto ide MacArthur bowed A gesture from the jester BEDSTEADS out by 500000 cheering Japs tears as TAX REE

... EXAMPLE attached to the 1st Army and arrived in time to see the battle of Tebourba rom then on he was in every big battle in Tunisia After “D Day Mr d’Arcy-Dawson was with the force in the battle of Normandy and the Allied rush into Germany After the war ...

Published: Monday 16 April 1951
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1482 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WORLD Summer delight with glass buses Cheyney the master of thrills is dead READERS Shillingsworth Corona The ..

... stage A year later the first world war broke out and he joined the Army After being severely wounded In the second battle of the Somme he received a staff appointment in 1911 Cheyney1 crime novels could not be leas like the work of a dreamy-eyed poet ...

Published: Wednesday 27 June 1951
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1764 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

'A'-eut,s' Wireless Licences in aduice * a Single Household

... three-foot canes is is 6d a dozen. ' Ham and Egg Trench.--ft is impossible to say how many survivors of the second Battle of the Somme (September 15. 1916) are still living. Hobby.—A. Kirkwood & Eon, 9St James' Square, Edinburgh, would be pleased to ...

Published: Tuesday 03 July 1951
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 538 | Page: 4 | Tags: none