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Published: Friday 04 July 1952
Newspaper: West London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1962 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MEADS CHURCH IS PROUD

... broke out In that year Mr Knight )omed the 16th battalion Kings Royal Rifles, and went out France. He took part in the battle ot the Somme, and in July. 1916, was wounded in High Wood, as a result of which he lost his right amt He was demobilised in 1917 ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1953
Newspaper: Eastbourne Herald
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 250 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CORONATION BROADCAST DEATH

... medals lor football. During the 1914-18 War served in France as machinegunner with the Royal East Surreys and was the battle of the Somme. At the start of the last war he enlisted as a Special Constable at Heysham. His wile and son survive. Arrangements ...

Published: Tuesday 09 June 1953
Newspaper: Morecambe Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 309 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

VILLAGERS’ FAREWELL GIFT TO WHALLEY SERGEANT

... of 16, he joined the Manchester Regiment and saw active service In France. Belgium and Italy, being wounded in the battle of the Somme. It was three years after the end of the war —on January 12 th, 1921. that Sergeant Turner entered the police service ...

Published: Friday 21 August 1953
Newspaper: Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 380 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME ULSTER DIVISION EPIC TO ...

Published: Friday 25 June 1954
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 9 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BE BROADCAST

... sombre memories in Northern Ireland, recalling as it does the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and the destruction in that one day’s fighting of the famous and gallant Ulster Division. The battle started at 7-30 in the morning and developed immediately into ...

Published: Friday 25 June 1954
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 323 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... in introducing school meals in the county. While serving in the 1914-18 war be was severely wounded just before the battle of the Somme. Capt. Dickson is survived by his wife and one son, and two brothers, Thomas M. Dickson, J.P., and James H. Dickson ...

Published: Friday 01 July 1955
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 469 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Remember the Boy of Derry. Remember Boys of the Diamond. So long as we have the Apprentice Boys of Derry

... Council of the World, which meets In Liverpool during the month of July, recalled the Ulstermen who had fallen at the Battle of the Somme on July 1 and 2, 1916. They were, be said, die finest men who ever left Ulster. land as an integral part the United ...

Published: Friday 15 July 1955
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1817 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE CORONATION BABES ARE THREE

... a lance-corporal in the Royal Sussex Regiment, Mr Simmonds saw action with the Fourth Army in France and during the battle of the Somme he was severely wounded and decorated for gallantry. At the end of the war he returned to his native Eastbourne. In ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1956
Newspaper: Eastbourne Herald
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 732 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Civic Commemoration suggested for Somme

... Civic Commemoration suggested for Somme The lack of any official ceremony in Portadown thie week to mark the etart of the Battle of the Somme 40 years ago was oritioised by Councillor Henry MeCourt at Monday night's meeting of Portadown Borough Council ...

Published: Friday 06 July 1956
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 333 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

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... aged 18 inow you will know how old I am!), private soldier—an infantryman I was severely wounded during the first battle of the Somme, but I was only one among hundreds of thousands of others who died or suflered. Receiving thirteen severe wounds all ...

Published: Friday 12 July 1957
Newspaper: Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1189 | Page: 3 | Tags: none