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Battle of the Somme

... Battle of the Somme It was revived in 1920 as the state of Northern Ireland was about to be established, and reborn in its present terrorist mode in 1966 under the leadership of Gusty Spence the man who read yesterday’s announcement that they were calling ...

Published: Friday 14 October 1994
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 282 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Battle of the Somme recalled

... Battle of the Somme recalled AN exhibition running till November 28 at St Andrews University Library will be of interest to the general public, and to Fife schoolchildren studying the First World War. The theme of the exhibition is the catastrophic Battle ...

Published: Friday 07 November 1986
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Battle of the Somme recalled

... Battle of the Somme recalled AN exhibition running till November 28 at St Andrews University Library will be of interest to the general public, and to Fife schoolchildren studying the First World War. The theme of the exhibition is the catastrophic Battle ...

Published: Friday 07 November 1986
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

The Battle of the Somme begins

... became the Battle of the Somme. Right from the start the casualty figures were so dreadful it was hard to comprehend them. From time to time standard issue postcards arrived from Bertie or Jack to say that they were fit and well, but the battle went on and ...

Published: Tuesday 23 July 1996
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1194 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

– 'Battle of the Somme’ goes on |

... - 'Battle of the Somme’ goes on | D. MacLeod Ltd, Luggiebank House, Redbrae Road, Kirkintilloch. Also at Kirkintilloch Herald, Townhead, Kirkintilloch and Milngavie & Bearsden Herald, 5 Douglas St,Milngavie R A specially-built play area which was at the ...

Published: Thursday 11 March 1982
Newspaper: Cumbernauld News
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 639 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Battle of the Somme recalled

... Battle of the Somme recalled ' Part 14 of the 8.8.C.’s history of the Great. War recalls thc Battle of the Somme, which began on July 1, 1916. Officially the ininferno - lasted 140 days- and cost 415,000 ' British lives. In reality it -dragged: ‘on until ...

Published: Friday 15 January 1965
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 423 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

PART TWO of lain Carmichael’s powerful series on the Battle of the Somme continues with the hour-by-hour story ..

... PART TWO of lain Carmichael’s powerful series on the Battle of the Somme continues with the hour-by-hour story of the fortunes of war on that bloody first day seemed at first that nothing could halve the fury of their attack. Then the left hand companies ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1976
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 437 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Points _of view _ – BATTLE OF THE SOMME HAIG DISPOSED CAVALRY TO MEET POSSIBLE EVENTUALITY To the EDITOR of ..

... Points _of view _ - BATTLE OF THE SOMME HAIG DISPOSED CAVALRY TO MEET POSSIBLE EVENTUALITY To the EDITOR of “THE SCOTSMAN From Viscount Elibank Edinburgh, August 26, 1959 Sir~My regiment, the 2nd Kln‘ Edward’s Horse. served 'through 191 :mmn(mmmmng: ...

Published: Friday 28 August 1959
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 604 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Battle of the Somme SIR; As I write, it is exactly 80 years since my father was killed in Mametz

... Battle of the Somme SIR; As I write, it is exactly 80 years since my father was killed in Mametz Wood at the Battle of the Somme. In my long life, I remember nothing more clearly as I described' in my book From Arctic Snow to Dust of Normandy than the ...

Published: Monday 15 July 1996
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 373 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Over the top: Scottish troops advance near Arras during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The massive losses they

... Over the top: Scottish troops advance near Arras during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The massive losses they suffered may go some way to explaining the killing of prisoners. and the last surviving First World War veteran at Erskine Hospital, said ...

Published: Sunday 25 October 1998
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 604 | Page: 9 | Tags: none