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PART TWO of lain Carmichael’s powerful series on the Battle of the Somme continues with the hour-by-hour story ..

... PART TWO of lain Carmichael’s powerful series on the Battle of the Somme continues with the hour-by-hour story of the fortunes of war on that bloody first day seemed at first that nothing could halve the fury of their attack. Then the left hand companies ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1976
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 437 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Television&Badio BBCI

... Sportstown. 7.2o—The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. B.lo—Angels. 9.o —News and Weather. 9.25 The Good Life. 9.55 The Battle of the Somme. IXs—Tenight. 11.40 Scottish Noun and Weather. ...

Published: Tuesday 29 June 1976
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

COMPLAINED

... and piers. Mrs Laura Grimond told the meeting she had received complaints about the mud on the road. “It’s like the battle of the Somme and the people are furious.” The council decided that Occidental should be told to clear it up at once and chief executive ...

Published: Wednesday 31 December 1975
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 107 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Bloody horror of the Somme

... Bloody horror of the Somme ACTOR Leo McKern narrates the BBC 1 Documentary (9.55) commemorating the 60th anniversary of 'The Battle of the Somme.” He tells of events on the site where the battle wa* fought, in the heart of French Picardy. By turns he ...

Published: Tuesday 29 June 1976
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WOUNDED

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 25 November 1970
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 233 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

BEHAVE

... 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 ...

Published: Monday 28 June 1976
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 253 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BBCI

... Part 13; The Devil Is coming . . . with the voices of Sir Michael Redgrave, Sir Ralph Richardson, Emlyn Williams. The Battle of the Somme. 4.15 THE BASIL BRUSH SHOW 4.45 ALIAS SMITH AND JONES Starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy, with guest stars Burl Ives ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1974
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 297 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

The letter that

... leave being stooped just now,” She may well have been rinht. The letter was written on March 20. The next day the last Battle of the Somme began. Perhaps her brother was one of the casualties, and the letter never reached him in the ensuing chaos. The Evening ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1974
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 383 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

FIVE DEAD IN NORTH CRASH By DAVID LOVE

... blackest memory recalled JUST 60 years ago this week men of the Gordons and the Seaforths went over the top at the Battle of the Somme. It began on July 1, and, by nightfall, the British army suffered 60,000 dead and seriously wounded. It was the darkest ...

Published: Tuesday 29 June 1976
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 437 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SCOTS ON RECORD

... many the arrangements goes to pianist Nancy MacDonald, member of Peter Davidson's Band parlietilarly lilted the perky Battle of the Somme medley, the ft'B marches Tom Sorley’s «elcome to Inverness. charming fiaelie wall* selection greatly enhanced by ...

Published: Saturday 14 August 1971
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 379 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... treasured possession of /ere pre- Mr Lawson’s was a forage f of Mr cap. which he got from Constable Captain Ball during the battle of the Somme m 1917. Mr Lawson, an infantryman with love of engines, successfully lives 20 applied fo? a transfer to the •deen His ...

Published: Thursday 02 March 1972
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 405 | Page: 7 | Tags: none