Frae a’ the Airts

... meters. An interesting illustrated brochure issued in connection with the centenary year recalls that the murderous - Battle of the Somme was in progress when, in July 1916, the firm sent out its millionth meter, and that the two-millionth meter was manufactured ...

Published: Tuesday 30 May 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1132 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DAILY trcoto ide MacArthur bowed A gesture from the jester BEDSTEADS out by 500000 cheering Japs tears as TAX REE

... EXAMPLE attached to the 1st Army and arrived in time to see the battle of Tebourba rom then on he was in every big battle in Tunisia After “D Day Mr d’Arcy-Dawson was with the force in the battle of Normandy and the Allied rush into Germany After the war ...

Published: Monday 16 April 1951
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1482 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WORLD Summer delight with glass buses Cheyney the master of thrills is dead READERS Shillingsworth Corona The ..

... stage A year later the first world war broke out and he joined the Army After being severely wounded In the second battle of the Somme he received a staff appointment in 1911 Cheyney1 crime novels could not be leas like the work of a dreamy-eyed poet ...

Published: Wednesday 27 June 1951
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1764 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Two well-known local men died this week

... Highlander in the 2% the foot of Burns Lane. (first World War, he was wounded When Mr Stove married the for'at the Battle of the Somme, but mer livhss Jesdsxfe CtithermetalSalndp |later saw i B son, he moved further up the lan: East. aw active service ...

Published: Friday 15 January 1954
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 930 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

It’s Britain’s Britons MISSILE plane RANGE TO BE BUILT 0 downed HEBRIDES 11 Inks bound from London for Tri plane

... Moria an hour and a half lata Warrior of the Somme WIDOWED 81-year-old Mrs Graham Gainsborough Drive Belfast was told yesterday bv the War Office that the body of her son missing since the Battle of the Somme on July 1916 has been found 39 years later He ...

Published: Thursday 28 July 1955
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1927 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Tyneside Scottish re-union

... Jesmond Presbyterian Church, Newcastle, on Sunday. Ist July, this day being the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme in 1816 in which they took an important part and sunered very heavy casuaities. - Over 160 individual and group prhotographs ...

Published: Friday 22 June 1956
Newspaper: Morpeth Herald
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

tu who normally Dig that GREAT NEW NOVEL One defeat OUT TOMORROW— JOHN BULL’S new WORLD -SCOOP! out-out- Now Croll

... man on terrifying mountain assaults on a dangerous secret war-mission in Italy through the slime and hoaor of the Battle of the Somme and experience the cowardice andA heroism that emerge in a ghastly Indian earthquake Read what Peter Savage's ambitions ...

Published: Tuesday 12 March 1957
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1212 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

GLORIOUS EPISODES OF WAR}

... fresh from England, won their spurs. The names of the other battles ot that war in which the 7th Battalion distinguished itself, the Ypres salient, Paschendade, Hill 60. the great Battles of the Somme and of Arras have long since passed into history, though ...

Published: Friday 03 May 1957
Newspaper: Morpeth Herald
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 429 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IN BRIEF

... 18 (now vou will know how old I am!), as a private soldier—an infantryman —I was severely wounded during the first Battle of the Somme, but I was only one among hundreds of thousands of others who died or suffered. Receiving thirteen severe wounds in ...

Published: Tuesday 09 July 1957
Newspaper: Gainsborough Evening News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 651 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

voice brings Happiness REWARD Queen's almost an mistic in’t it Mrs T? Moat of the talcb the Christ Big Top

... came my door with large hamper from a os all the good tninga co eat Sirs AMk MOXIAGUE 21S NW GIT O PEACE The great battle ol the Somme bad been won by 4 ChrUtmaa morning noth sides were tilled with thoughts ar peace On peeping cautiously over' the trench ...

Published: Friday 25 December 1959
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1976 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MR. G. JONES

... trade agpnmncesfup but left in August, 1914, for service with the Royal Artillery, being wounded in the foot during the Battle of the Somme in in 1916. On bu# demobilised in Fcbnma. 1916, Mr. Jones returned to the works, completed his apptuucm ip, and then ...

Published: Tuesday 02 August 1960
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

STEAM BOATS ON THE CANAL

... trade aspvmicatfip but left in August, 1914, for service with the Royal Artillery. being wounded in the foot during ‘the Battle of the Somme in in 1916. On being demobilised in !-cbnnl{. 1916, Mr. Jones returned to the xy works, completed his iceship, and then ...

Published: Friday 05 August 1960
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1205 | Page: 5 | Tags: none