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... EARLIER this month, we ran feature harking back to the fearsome World War 1 Battle of the Somme. It stirred memories for 77- year-old Mrs Jessie Dnncan (left). Forest Road, Aberdeen, who has this eerie tale to tell from her childhood. ...
... Ads. Phone Aberdeen 691212 grandfather was a medical orderly at the Battle of the Somme where 60,000 German. French and British soldiers were butchered in the first few hours of battle. And all the way through his life be maintained a stem silence about ...
... each other in a battle of attrition for the following ten weeks and, despite the first ever tank attack, at Flers, they remained entrenched in their positions. The battle ended after weeks of atrocious weather. - The second battle, the Somme Offensive, took ...
... SATURDAY ANSWERS From Page One 1 Paul McCartney; 2 Battle of the Somme; 3 Power Gen; 4 The Warsaw Pact; 5 Dundee; Inverurie; 7 30; 8 Rob Roy; Soviet Union: 10 The Bible; 11 Prince Harry; 12 Political asylum; 13 The pint; 14 Murrayfleld; Dolly Parton; ...
... 10.55—Newsnlght, .0—The Battle of the Somme. 11.40—Weather. See highlight. 11.45—Weekend Outlook, 12.10—Weather. 11.50—Open Univeraity. 12.15—Cloae. 12.20—Cloae. RADIO 1 (275 m, 285 mi 1089kHx. 1053 kHz) 5.30 Adrian John 7 0 Mike Smith 9.30 Simon Bates ...
... A PHOTOGRAPH from the exhibition. Putting OLD BATTLE PHOTOGRAPHS GO ON SHOW THE 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme is being commemorated at Hamilton District Museum with a thought-provoking exhibition entitled ‘‘For King and Country”’. The exhibition ...
... Presented live by Anna Ford. 2.oo—Parliament Programme. 2.3o—Lions Led By Donkeys. The Battle of The Somme. Marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, this repeated documentary looks at the experiences of some of the few remaining survivors ...
... Price of glory A GROUP OF 25 medals awarded to Oen. Lord Raw- Unson of Trent - the architect of the Battle of the Somme In 1916 made £19.000 at Christie's /esterday ...
... HISTORIAN DISAGREES WITH 8.8. C. Somme Battle programme The name of Captain B. H. Liddell Hart (68), the war historian, will be removed from the screen credits of the 8.8. C.-2 series, “ The Great War,” in a fortnight's time. Capt. Liddell Hart claims ...
... P FLASHBACK For 1916 was, of course, the year of the first Battle of the Somme when whole battalions were wiped out in minutes on the Western Front battlefield. Thousands were mown down by German machine-gun fire as they were ordered over the top in ...
... BAND EQUIPMENT FRIDAY, JULY 1 VILLAGE HALL, THE WYND CUMBERNAULD VILLAGE To commemorate Ulster Special Services Force Battle of the Somme, 1916 Band contest and disco. £2.00. Pay at the door. 7 p.m.-1 a.m. ...
... Somme recalled Four davs of ceremonies. ser- vices and parades will ne held in France during June and July to mars the 50th anniversary of the British tr Battle of the Somme in which part duri ne oops k a leading ...