Belfast Telegraph, Monday, January 2, 1950. Horse trams depart . . . The Titanic is sunk . . . The

... Telegraph, Monday, January 2, 1950. Horse trams depart . . . The Titanic is sunk . . . The Covenant is signed . . . The Battle of the Somme is fought . Ulster's Parliament is opened . . . Belfast suffers heavily in air raids . . . U.S. troops land in Ulster ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1950
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 78 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HIGHLIGHTS OF ULSTER'S HALF-CENTURY

... (Ulster) Division, later to win immortal fame by their part in the Battle of the Somme, march past Belfast City Hall. 4fq ,141111 , f, . 19 41 World War ll—and Belfast is in the front line of battle. German raiders strike at the. city, and this scene in bombed ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1950
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 434 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

JANUARY Ift

... dock labourer Thomas Horn, at Ms Cumberland Terrace home on Sunday, to chronic bronchitis, set severe gassing at the Battle of the Somme in 1016. NOTICE 8.R.C.8. (»Ut detachment).. Special Meeting to-morrow night at 7.N. ...

CAPTAIN W. ROSS OASKELL The death took place In a Glasgow nursing home on Tuesday of Captain W. Russ Gaskell

... the first world war he served in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, and fought at Hill 60. Yp7eN, Gal:ipolt. and the Battle of the Somme He was wounded at Ypres Twn of his three sons were kil!ed In the sec ad world war Captain Gassel, fo.lowed his father ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1950
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 183 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PEOPLE S/JAW PO/NT

... private school system. His more recent plays “Fasyvy Monev” (1947) are ‘Murder Hap ens” (1945) and He was wounded in the Battle of the Somme (1916) and. rejoin ing in the last war, was a Major the in France in 1939-40. = wie LORD ROSEBERY Twice bowled by Hirst ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1950
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 986 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BURIED ALIVE—BIOWN UP

... Regt.—the Post Office Rifles—and went to the Western Front, serving in the Somme, Ypres Salient and Arras Battles. “ The first narrow escape from death was in 1916 Battle of the Somme. I was sitting in a ' funk hole-’ lighting pipe, when shell burst on top ...

Published: Friday 20 January 1950
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 361 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Mr. W. A. Packer, just retired, was BURIED ALIVE-BLOWN UP

... Regt.—the Post Office Rifles—and went to the Western Front, serving In the Somme. Ypres Salient and Arras Battles. The first narrow escape from death was in 1916 Battle of the Somme. I was sitting in a * funk hole’ lighting pipe, when a shell burst on top ...

Published: Tuesday 24 January 1950
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 419 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ARTICLES FOR SALE

... Dressing Table, knee hole, for sale; would consider sale of Suite if desired; no dealers.—Y62l6. News-Letter. PICTURE. Battle of the Somme. also Oak Bedstead, double. 6ft. 61n. Y 6215. News-Letter. RIDING Outfit, average ladies, brown Breeches. Tweed Coat ...

Published: Tuesday 24 January 1950
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1015 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TWICE ESCAPED DEATH Retirement of Mr. W. A. Packer

... fact that he has twit . . narrow escapes from death. both of them in the first world war. On the first occasion—the , Battle of the Somme. In 1916--he was a member of the 6th City of London Regiment—the Office Rifles — and was sitting in a sh:11 hole lighting ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1950
Newspaper: East Kent Times and Mail
County: Kent, England
Type: | Words: 354 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... dinner of their regimental ex-Service branch, the Grenadier Guards Comrades’ Association (Chesterfield), memories of the battle of the Somme and the Anzio beachhead. Four bandsmen of the Grenadiers scarlet and blue played the regimental march as the guests ...

Published: Friday 03 February 1950
Newspaper: Derbyshire Times
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1394 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ARCADE BLANKETS FOR RELIABILITY

... famous for many things I which proves her to Se a great country. Here are a few :—The famous Ulster Division. at the Battle of the Somme, Ist July, 1916, in France, taught the Germans something about the stuff the Ulstermen were made of. 1939- Ulstermen ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1950
Newspaper: Mid-Ulster Mail
County: Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2129 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE EVENING NEWS NOTTINGHAM THURSDAY IT ISN'T ENOUGH TO LOOK CLEAN Free your pores of your WORK-WEARY SELF! No one

... In the first world war they were infantry and fought in many of the great battles in France and Flanders including the attack on the Hohenzollern redoubt the battles of the Somme Bullccourt Mount Kemmel In the last war searchlight regiment of Royal Artillery ...

Published: Thursday 16 February 1950
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening News
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 4095 | Page: 4 | Tags: none