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... Aberdeen aged 92. Mr Galashan, 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 ...
... QUIET ceremony at Aberdeen Eoyal Infirmary this week marked the heroism of a Northeast man 71 years ago. During the Battle of the Somme, 2nd Lieutenant William Maitland narrowly escaped death while wiping out a German gun crew singlehanded. A bullet pierced ...
... battalions of the Highland Light Infantry. If any reader has any photos or stories relating to these battalions during the battle of the Somme, we would like to hear from them. Charles McDonald, Scottish History Re-enactment Workshop, 61 Whitby Street, Parkhead ...
... ik 425 WAR WALKS ★ Richard Holmes traces the events of the Battle of the Somme, when 57,000 Allied sokHers were klHed or wounded. (R) (6030856) 425 RUGBY SPECIAL ★ John Inverdale presents highlights of the weekend's PHklngton Cup semi-finals, as Sale ...
... actions in the disastrous Battle of the Somme, and his book tells the whole sickening story in vivid detail. The Somme . . a battle bloody that the casualty lists of Stalingrad, and even Hiroshima pall bv comparison. The Somme . . where the ...
... through the week's stories. (C) (5).(157686) WESTERN FRO Richard Holmes presents a documentary asking what made the Battle of the Somme such a disaster, laying blame at the door of Generals Haig and Rawlinson. Were their poor leadership skills largely ...
... WOUNDED Hr Toman, who served In World War I was wounded In 1914 during the battle of the Somme. During World War II worked In the shipyards, and retired from the water department’ of Aberdeen Corporation years ago. “tut I am ttlll working, n was quick ...
... Northfield Afternoon Bowling Club who were meeting for one of their twice weekly sessions in Northfield Community Centre. Battle, of the Somme veteran Mr James Stewart the club’s oldest member at 88 said of his 80p boost: “A loaf and a rotvie that’s all I will ...
... fatal clue was his wife's gold chain, missing from the body, but found in Bennett's lodgings. 1918: Start of the second Battle of the Somme. 1919: The Soviet Republic proclaimed. 1983: Police and tracker dogs scoured part of the Cairngorms In a search for ...
... car. He also admitted seven previous convictions. Somme trip More them 200 Woritf War I. veterans will make their last official pilgrimage this week to commemorate the anniversary the Battle of the Somme, L. A 111 ...
... Division of the dordon Highlanders during that bungled orgy of camage that history has dignified with the name of the Battle of the Somme. With the help of the diarist’s son, managed to piece together some Information about my father’s movements during the; ...
... 3,1996 g Melanie Henderson’s j top telly guide afafc 1 1,' Jb»- is on the gala bill •ON the 80th anniversary of the battle of the Somme. Tlmewatch (BBC 2, 9.30 pm) puts Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, the man accused of being the worst type of British ...