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... crowds who flocked to see it, as it was a recent innovation on the Western Front, having only been introduced during the Battle of the Somme, about 18 months before its arrival in Aberdeen. alfour Low pianes I LIVE in Springhill Crescent, right under the flight ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1994
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

Scotland (North) Branch of The

... Scotland (North) Branch of The Western Front Association Illustrated Talk: Could the Battle of the Somme have been Won by Dr Stephen Badsey, Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. All welcome, 2.30 pm, Saturday. 9 Dram Casde, near Drumoak ...

Published: Thursday 13 August 1998
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

WITH A GREAT NEW VIDEO RELEASE FROM ROSS RECORDS AULO LANG SYNE - 24 tracks of the best Scottish melodies

... Highlands and the tunes include The Dark Island, AukJ Lang Syne, Flower Of Scotland, Amazing Grace, Highland Laddie, Battle of the Somme, The Ballad Of Glencoe, Mist Covered Mountains, Highland Cathedral, Hector The Hero, Leaving Glen Affric, Lord Lovat's ...

Published: Wednesday 08 December 1999
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 172 | Page: 33 | Tags: none

Lament for a veteran Gordon

... One of the oldest surviving Gordons, he was believed to be probably the last survivor from the regiment of the bloody Battle of the Somme in 1916. Besides his 1914-18 campaign medals which he proudly wore at many regimental gatherings Mr Rearie also held ...

Published: Wednesday 12 September 1990
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 176 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Volunteer

... volunteered for the 49th (London) Division of the Royal Artillery and was posted to France, where he fought in the battle of the Somme and at Ypres as a gunner. He lived alone in Aylestone, Leicester, until he was 100, when he moved in with his daughter ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1999
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 179 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

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... owner of a teddy which survived World War I battle. Her granny, Mary Hall, paid £4,715 for the bear at a London auction. Edwin went to war with Percy Kynnersley- Baddeley. who died in the Battle of the Somme. Drugs fine A MAN was fined £350 yesterday after ...

Published: Wednesday 21 September 1994
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

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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

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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

12.55 WEATHER 1.00 CLOSE

... and to survive the greatest disaster in the history of the British Army’ To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme some of the remaining survivors tell their remarkable stories. (Repeat). It.oo A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM Lindsay Kemp ...

Published: Wednesday 25 June 1986
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 2 | Tags: none