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7.00 NEWS SUMMARY 7.0 S 7 DAYS On the eve of Remembrance Sun* day, Walter Fenton (91), recalls the Battle

... 7.00 NEWS SUMMARY 7.0 S 7 DAYS On the eve of Remembrance Sun* day, Walter Fenton (91), recalls the Battle of the Somme; and writer Mary Kelly discusses her hew book, Abortion: The Full Story. 7M STRANGERS ABROAD Bruce Dakowski retraces the steps of the ...

Published: Saturday 08 November 1986
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 70 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

1.00 ON COURSE

... 1.00 ON COURSE 2.00 THK PARLIAMENT PROGRAMME 2.30 UONS LEO BY DONKEYS This repeated documentary about the Battle of the Somme looks at the experiences of some of the few remaining survivors who went over the lop on July 1,1916. 3.30 TIME TO REMEMBER The ...

Published: Friday 24 June 1988
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 82 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

■ TODAY

... cast gather for The Big Picnic (BBC 2 Bill Bryden's epic stage play (shown to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme), set in Govan, Glasgow, at the outbreak of the First World War. It features Aberdeen's Gary Bakewell (recently seen ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1996
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 75 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

THIS DAY

... Darwin presented his theory on evolution and natural selection to the Linnean Society in London. 1916 First day of the battle of the Somme in World War 1 in less than 24 hours there were 60.000 British casualties. 1929 The cartoon character Popeye the Sailor ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1999
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 83 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

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... Sportstown. 7.2o—The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. B.lo—Angels. 9.o —News and Weather. 9.25 The Good Life. 9.55 The Battle of the Somme. IXs—Tenight. 11.40 Scottish Noun and Weather. ...

Published: Tuesday 29 June 1976
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

THIS

... born in Cambrai, France. He was the first person to come to Britain without arriving by sea. 1916 First day of the battle of the Somme in World War 1. In less than 24 hours there were 60,000 British casualties. 1969 Prince Charles was invested as Prince ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1998
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

foreman

... Aberdeen aged 92. Mr Oalashan. Craigton Terrace, Culter. was a corporal In the 7th Gordon Highlanders. He survived the Battle of the Somme and was wounded at High Wood. He was 45 years with the former Culter Paper Mills, latterly as foreman papermaker. A ...

Published: Friday 16 January 1987
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

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... Rocket its inaugural run [1916: Military tanks were first sent into action as part of the allied ; offensive at the Battle of the Somme j 1928: Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin 1982: Despite Israeli opposition. Pope John Paul ...

Published: Wednesday 15 September 1999
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 100 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

4.35 DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS The Prison Without Walls. 4.55 JOHN CRAVEN'S NEWSROUNO Foryounger viewers. 5.05 ..

... of the championships while Gerald Williams collates the stories making today's news. 11.00 THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME The first day of the Battle of the Somme was the worst in British military history In less than 24 hours 60,000 British soldiers became ...

Published: Thursday 26 June 1986
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 326 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AND on this day 1794 Maximilien Robespierre, leader of the French Revolution, was guillotined in Paris. IRRfi ..

... were first used in action on September 15.1916, in France when 50 preceded infantry into German trenches in the first Battle of the Somme In 1939, the Royal Tank Corps became part of the Royal Armoured Corps, BIRTHDAYS: Jacqueline Onassis, widow of President ...

Published: Monday 28 July 1986
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 104 | Page: 6 | Tags: none