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... 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 ...
... 7TDAYS. 7.30 THE PLANETS. New series about our nearest neighbours in space — the planets. 8.00 “LIONS LED BY DONKEYS. Battle of the Somme survivors give their ViEews. 9.00 UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS. 10.00 HILL STREET BLUES. 11.00 WHODARES WINS 11.45-1.00 “IT ...
... Malcolm McDonald go to from Newcastle? What did God create on the fifth day? How many legs has a slow-worm? Answers —1, Battle of the Somme, 1916; 2, Bangkok; 3, Fore!; 4, A skulk; 5, Glass; 6, Hippopotamus; 7, Beards; 8, Arsenal; 9, Sea creatures and birds; ...
... module with the raising of the 15th, 16th andl'lthßamtlionlouheH reada'haunypbotolol: - storiurehmthue battalions the battle of the Somme we would like to hear from them, especially an mveteramwhomaystfllbe . ve. Contact Charies McDonald, 61 Whitby Street ...
... the Territorial Army and was later commissioned into the 9th Battalion The Royal Scots. He endured the horrors of the Battle of the Somme, when a day’s casualties were counted in their thousands. Mr Clark himself was wounded in the foot in no man’s Back ...
... Langholm “VETERANS' NIGHT.” - Survivors of the Dardanelles Campaign and the Battle of the Somme were chief guests at the annual * Veteran's Night ”* organised by the Langhalm branch of the Royal British Legion, and held in the Legion Club premises on ...
... worked in the mines for 54 years. Mr Ross served with The Black Watch during the First World War and was wounded in the battle of the Somme. “My first son was only weeks old when | enlisted,”” Mr Ross commented. He also served six years as a Special Constable ...
... Scots. He saw service in France for most of the war, having joined in 1914, but m 1917 he was seriously wounded in the Battle of the Somme, and was invalided home. i ~ After the wedding, Mr and Mrs Winn lived in a house at the east end of East Wemyss, and ...
... the end of world war one, and was wounded five times. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre medal for his part in the Battle of the Somme. After the war he returned to his native north-east, and joined Aberdeen City Police. He and his wife then settled in ...
... Bray. 1.00 MASH (R) 1.25 Children’s BBC: Brum (R) 1.35 Stoppit and Tldyué) (R) 1.40 A Day That Shook the World: The Battle of the Somme (b/w) 1.45 The First Noels (R) 2.00 News. 2.05 Songs of Praise (C) 2.35 Country File; News. CLYDE and FORTH VELICOPTERS ...
... birthday today. Mrs Adams, of Church Gresley, Derbys, was left with five children when husband William died at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Bill Procter, Britain’s oldest man, celebrated his 108th birthday at New Ferry, Wirral, Merseyside, yesterday ...
... at the battles of the Somme. The last battle of the Somme was to storm the fortress of Beaumont Hamel, ‘‘the significance of that curiously neglected last battle” being the subject of the last chapter. Acknowledging that the first day of the ...