Refine Search

Countries

Scotland

Place

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

Access Type

38

Type

22
13
3

Public Tags

No tags available

VETERANS FOR SOMME A grougvof 70 British First orld War veterans are to return to France on June 28 as

... VETERANS FOR SOMME A grougvof 70 British First orld War veterans are to return to France on June 28 as guests of honour in ceremonies to mark the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. More than 5000 visitors from Britain and overseas are ...

Published: Friday 20 June 1986
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 59 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Channel 4

... Moths 2.3 O—BUSINESS DAILY 1.00 —ON COURSE. 2.OO—THE PROGRAMME PARLIAMENT 2.3 O—LIONS LED BY DONKEYS. Story of the Battle of The Somme told by survivors and archive film. 3.3 O—TIME TO REMEMBER. The winter of 1944-45. 4.OO—ARCTIC SPIRITS. Documentary ...

Published: Thursday 23 June 1988
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 58 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Compassion on those parking

... some of the meters! Brown, tisland. AS ONE who was wounded and disabled while serving as a member of the BEF at the Battle of the Somme 1915-16 with the 9*h HLI in France. During the last two years my wife has been a patient in hospital and still is. I ...

Published: Monday 01 February 1982
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

what'’s to stop you taking a cruise on a steamer, paddle in the briney or surfing on the breakers? You

... to April 20) — If you can’t, or won’'t compromise, theni your personal and domestic world will look‘ more like the Battle of the Somme rather than a haven for harmony. Acquiesce and you’ll soon overcome any emotional obstacles that have beset your happy ...

Published: Thursday 18 August 1988
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Soldier’s remains stolen from war museum

... soldier killed at the Battle of the Somme were stolen from a Dutch museum by a war veteran who wants a resting place for the bones. Draped in a vintage British military mtawuammu;g,th mwusgm‘hmt,h a mm of war memorabilia to the 1916 battle, which killed more ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1989
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 130 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Veterans remember

... remember Frail, but proud, old soldiers began gathering early today to honour their thousands of comrades who fell in the battle of the Somme, 70 years ago. Immaculately dressed, with m&ll highly R rusotng v ml‘lgalll of those left of cream of British youth ...

Published: Tuesday 01 July 1986
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 157 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

CAMPAIGN

... time of Californian reds — while on the books ’z MICHAEL FRY reviews mmu-w&:‘- the Vwm | WOOD discusses a book on the Battle of the Somme; and BRUCE LENMAN examines the latest work on the Jacobite army in England. ...

Published: Friday 17 June 1983
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 215 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Haig of Bemersyde

... process which can hardly be called logic Mr Lauchlan Mackinnon argues- today that, because his kinsman’ was killed in the Battle of the Somme serving under the Ist Earl Haig, the 2nd Earl should not have sold his famous father’s papers to maintain Bemersyde ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1983
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 242 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TELEVISION TODAY

... A new series of films by directors new to televiston, The first, ‘‘ Rifleman,” is set in Northern Ireland after the Battle of the Somme in which' the 36th (Ulster) Division covered itself in ‘‘glory ' — but ‘at tragic cost. 10.45 Newsnight. g 11.30 Heutp ...

Published: Monday 27 October 1980
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

3R]

... first play in this re-run series. The sole survivor of a band of volunteers returns to his village in Ireland after the battle of the Somme. It stars Bryan Murray. Peter Jeffrey and Simon Cadell. 110 . n.amm. 12.10 Close Down. ...

Published: Monday 07 September 1981
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 276 | Page: 18 | Tags: none