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... He would have been 101 June. He served with the Gordons in the trenches from 1915 and won the Croix de Guerre at the Battle of the Somme. He was wounded five tiroes during World War I. Former butcher A FORMER master butcher has died while visiting family ...

Published: Thursday 26 January 1995
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 384 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THURSDAY APRIL 7 1994

... of French potatoes the second in 10 days at the Bathgate plant. The grenade, dating back like its predecessor to the Battle of the Somme, was blown up by Army bomb disposal experts. ...

Published: Thursday 07 April 1994
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 184 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

.Mr Brotvn » Monymmk KEMNAY man Mr Pater Brown (95) helped a group of schoolchildren with their World War I

... German helmet. Mr Brown Joined the Army as a volunteer in 1915 and was posted to Arres, France, year later, amid the Battle of the Somme, where he served for more than two years. “While in the trenches, I worked a four-day week in the front line, but I ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1992
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 192 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

The Rev. Matthew McPhail, minister of Arbirlot, is leaving his charge next month. For 30 years Mr McPhail has been

... studies, he enlisted in the Cameron Highlanders, and went to France. In 1916 he was severely wounded in the leg in a battle on the Somme. His injured leg meant hospital treatment for the next six years, but Mr McPhail continued with his studies, attending ...

Published: Saturday 24 January 1959
Newspaper: Arbroath Guide
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 215 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

g ULSTER TALKS REACH KEY STAGE

... Mr Brooke's number two at Stormont, was taking charge of this afternoon’s discussion. Mr Brooke is in France for the Battle of the Somme commemoration. Four days of intensive talks are planned for Parliament Buildings, Belfast, and Ulster Unionist leaders ...

Published: Monday 01 July 1991
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 199 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Above: Canadian troops about to go over the top at the start of the Somme offensive on 1 July 1816 Right: Avril ..

... about to go over the top at the start of the Somme offensive on 1 July 1816 Right: Avril Williams in her garden in Picardy. The cellar below her house was a refuge during the battle. Previous pages: the Somme battiefield in 1916 Photograph courtesy of the ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1996
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 997 | Page: 42 | Tags: none

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... Weatthinster, 1910 There were more then 100 arrests when suffragettes tried to storm the House Of Commons. 1916 The first battle of the Somme ended, 1926 George Bernard Shaw refused to accept the Nobel Prize money of £7,000 awarded to.him. He said: t can forgive ...

Published: Thursday 18 November 1999
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 187 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

we rd ekend TV

... Sun. New series our nearest neighbours in — the planets. 8.00 LIONS LED BY DONKEYS. The Battle of the Somume. Some of the remaining survivors of the Battle of the Somme, now in their nineties, tell their remarkable stories. 9.00 UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS.| 10 ...

Published: Thursday 07 November 1985
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 187 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

Methil Miner Fined

... The on The arc melting of metals and i Manchester Regiment. lie lost a Its application to the casting of leg In the Battle of the Somme in molybdenum. 1916. ...

Published: Monday 09 January 1956
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 196 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Music In The Parks

... Reel — Baumont Hamel: Dornie Ferrie: Rejected Suitor. 3/4 Marches—Green Hills; 1 See Mull; Battle is o’er. 9/3 Marches—Hills of Darrgii; Battle of the Somme. AT RAVENSCRAIG PARK. 6/8 Marches—O’er the Charlie; Hot Punch landers: Up in the Early: Queen ...

Published: Friday 03 July 1970
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

60 YEARS AGO ON THURSDAY

... ds there, he will remember ; years ago when he, and Qe thousands like him, fought st °ry, le .S rea test battles in European „ battle of the Somme. A, 6 and lives at Haig House, en Ue r soldiers in Dorchester 1 l 9' Glas Bow. I Was a young soldier in the ...

Published: Sunday 27 June 1976
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 5 | Tags: none