... PILGRIMAGE TO THE SOMME More. than 200 First World War veterans will this week make their official pilgrimage from Britain to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. The ranks of survivors of one of the bloodiest battles in history are ...

... killed, wounded, and uxslsflnk' than .W other combatant in the First World War for freedom. In anniversary p mmes of the Battle of tEe Somme (which was more disastrous than Flodden for Scotland), I have heard mention of England, Germany, France, the Commonwealth ...

... booed by a crowd which was held back by a strong force of police and troops. The Orangemen were commemorating ' the Battle of the Somme, in 1916, in which many Ulster men died. ...

... Second Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. He disregarded orders by taking a bugle with him to the trenches during the Battle of the Somme, and rallied the troops by sounding the *“ charge” under fire and bombing attacks. ...

... with the boys slipping up.. to. Town: after lights out), he. did his stint in the Army and. got a “'blighty at the Battle of the Somme. Let me close my comments on this fascinating book with the epigraph -Mr - Hig}“m. _has chosen to explain the title ...

... war in 'Europe, victory was not easy to -achieve and they, too,. settled down . ‘to uncomfortable -stale‘mate, the Battle of the Somme writ small, ridicules the French and ' their almost . -charming selfishness; {mtt'u‘ix; their . own personal ‘interests ...

... picture e lodge nf* A i 111, the victor of the Battle of the Boyne, is still the favourite but there are also portraits of Ulstermen and scenes from the Bible. One banner depicted the Battle of the Somme, another, the sinking of the Titanic. During the ...

... paralysed -from the neck down and the - hospital's oldest: patient, Mr Patrick' Bennison (95), who ‘lost a leg at the ‘Battle of the Somme in 1916.. Mr Bennison has been a patient at the hospital for 35 years. - e ...

... Thousands of Orangemen were again on the move in Belfast this afternoon for annual church parades to commemorate the Battle of the Somme, in which many Ulstermen died during the First World War. Vans taking part in the procession were not permitted to &alnde ...

... consider the :- sage of flnf:fillld‘ the that = the battalion suffered tremendous casualties ‘on - the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1918, .it is marvellous that so many of them are still able to attend,” Mr Matthew Neil, secretary of the chamber, said ...

... ‘leading from kitchen to dining hall, making a sound like a continual barrage of heavy: guns on the first day of the battle of the Somme. ‘ln _.one ' Perthshire hotel, known - at one. time: for. ifs dramatic internecine warfare in the kitchen, I saw the ...

... ago I met an old friend pushing a Jmm cont:tnhg his son with all the alacrity of a soldier soing over the top at the Battle of the: Somme. b ‘Later, we met another; friend Fropollin% his latést offspring . ike a battering ram. The conservation naturally ...