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18 Rutherglen Reformer Friday January 20 1989 EMPLOYMENT SERVICE GRIM REMINDER OF THE WASTE young man who has ..

... for maintaining old trenches which have been kept as a reminder of the Battle of The Somme which claimed almost one million lives Around 57000 died on the first day of the battle in 1916” he said “and when a trench slipped just before Christmas we discovered ...

Published: Friday 20 January 1989
Newspaper: Rutherglen Reformer
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1132 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

TALES AND TRAILS OF SCOTS EXPLORERS

... outbreak of war in 1914, Bruce lent them to the 15th Battalion of the Royal Scots. They were lost in action at the Battle of the Somme, when the Pipe-Major playing them in the attack fell badly wounded. Bruce spent the first months of his voyage cruising ...

Published: Sunday 22 October 1950
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 418 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

Tories on way to a crushing defeat —says Jeremy Bray

... Dr. Bray told the Commons: As to the practical effect of yesterday's budget, we have not seen its like since the Battle of the Somme when the cream of the nation poured over the trenches to be mown down by the machine guns of the opposite side. He added: ...

Published: Friday 20 March 1981
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 539 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

FOR BETTER OR WORSER

... dug's life, quavered Auld Andra. Ah nearly merrit Big Maggie's mother when Ah wiz a lad. Luckily Ah was sent tae the Battle of the Somme. Then Gloria The Gossip brought a startling piece of info. Wee Sammy hud tae go tae /-rdrossan tae work for a coupla ...

Published: Sunday 04 February 1973
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 449 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

Richest Man

... was awarded an 0.8. E. and celebrated his 86th birthday. Arthur served in both wars. He was seriously injured in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and given a discharge, but joined up again in 1939 and was made a Major with the British Expeditionary Force ...

Published: Sunday 17 January 1982
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 459 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

'r THE Princess of the Eighties had distinctly elegant Thirties look yesterday with the wide hat and the even wider

... President Richard von Weizsacker on visit And memories went even further back For yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme which brought death and heartache to British -and Germans alike TfcBTBCTIVES AO4PCfatt old girl IImcI Gins- Police the ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1986
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 524 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

BACK WITH A VENGEANCE Peter McDougall finds inspiration away from tendon's big-city blues He says: I'm back ..

... Connery (a smashin' big man) and Billy Connolly Peter now big enough to turn down £130000 to adapt a book on the Battle of the Somme BETTER He picks and chooses from a variety of offers but as he stresses: back in my homeland for good because I've got ...

Published: Monday 18 January 1988
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 554 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... Stewart continues AS wars go it wasnt really a grand-scale affair Among many horrors there was nothing to rival say the Battle of the Somme which began 70 years ago this week But never Western history has a war been fought with more the blazing pure self- ...

Published: Thursday 03 July 1986
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 709 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

RETIRAL OF LONG SERVICE 'PRESS' EMPLOYEE

... King's Own Scottish Borderers. He fought with the regiment through the early years of the war but in 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, he suffered a severe head wound when a high explosive shell burst near him, and was sent home to Cheltenham, England ...

Published: Friday 16 October 1964
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 733 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DAILY RECORD Saturday June ZT 1986 DOUBLES MONDAY Dorothy Tutin right and daughter Amanda together tonight ..

... Crooning along with Sydney are such delights as Rose Marie and Patsy Cline THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME (BBC-1 110 pm) A repeat of this acclaimed 1976 documentary about the horrific battle shown again to commemorate the 70th Anniversary FRIDAY TUBE SPECIAL WHAM ...

Published: Saturday 21 June 1986
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 798 | Page: 19 | Tags: none