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BALLYMENA BOROUGH COUNCIL BATTLE OF THE SOMME ANNIVERSARY SERVICE The obove Service will be held in the ..

... BALLYMENA BOROUGH COUNCIL BATTLE OF THE SOMME ANNIVERSARY SERVICE The obove Service will be held in the Memorial Park, Galgorm Road, Ballymena on Wednesday next, Ist July, 1981 at 8 p.m. ki Signed: J. STANLEvTc::«:':Lz:z'ce)'lT 80 Goigorm Road, Ballymena ...

Published: Thursday 25 June 1981
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 42 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Con over UDR

... at stake their very lives for the cause of peace? These gallant men are dying as valiantly as their forbears at the Battle of the Somme at Arnhem and in the African Depart, who also paid in full to preserve our British heritage. JOHN CARTER London WI. ...

Published: Monday 23 November 1981
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The Somme

... The Somme THE truism that old soldiers never die, they simply fade away was well illustrated yesterday at the 65th commemmorotion of the Battle of the Somme. Only 15 of the thousands of Ulstermen who fought in •hat long, murderous battle were present ...

Published: Thursday 02 July 1981
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 152 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

OBITUARY Mr Charles Watson

... the age of 86, served with the 11th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles and was wounded in the fighting which preceded the Battle of the Somme. On returning to civilian life, he was prominent in the local scene, particularly on the soccer field. He was pre-deceased ...

Published: Thursday 29 October 1981
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 199 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Local man who fought at the Somme

... Local man who fought at the Somme Lisburn man Jim Bumns, seated on extreme left, ils seen with colleagues from the 36th Ulster Division, all believed to be deceased, who fought in the 1916 Battle of the Somme which was commemorated week. E 2748 { = e ...

Published: Friday 03 July 1981
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 196 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Way to defend Ulster

... English solution to their Ulster problem was to put all the men of the UVF into a suicidal advance at Thiepval in the Battle of the Somme. Thousands of brave men lost their lives. Nothing was gained militarily. There was hardly a home in Ulster that was ...

Published: Friday 06 March 1981
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 253 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Continued from Page 1. It was a much warmer day than today. There was more dust and sweat than mud

... Eighty-eight-year-old Mr. William Gill, another Tribute to Somme dead murdered earlier this year with his son at his home at Tynan, south Armagh. During the first two days of the Battle of the Somme, 5,553 were killed, wounded or missing. The Ulster Division ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1981
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 246 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OBITUARIES

... Lisburn home recently, aged 82. A native of Belfast, he was a veteran of the Great War of 1914-18 when he served at the Battle of the Somme. His lengthy and distinguished police career began in 1925. Between that time and his retirement in 1955, he served ...

Published: Friday 17 April 1981
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 243 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Socialists out to destroy democracy

... allies to England in two world wars. Tens of thousands of members of the Ulster Volunteer Force were slaughtered in the Battle of the Somme. In my opinion, the best thing that Protestants could do 1s to agitate for the restoration of Stormont, and the granting ...

Published: Thursday 02 July 1981
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 253 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OBITUARY Mr A.E. Caughey

... OBITUARY Mr A.E. Caughey Mr Albert E. Cau;he{. who served in both world wars and was at the battles of Somme and Dunkirk. has died. He was 83. His last outing wasin June when together with other old Army comrades he attended the service in St Anne's Cathedral ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1981
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 259 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Memory of Somme heroes honoured at civic ceremony

... at the Battle of the Somme 65 years ago. for themselves and their Province, and whose heroism will never be for- Eouenwmuthenmhh ot lasts.” stirring setting for the growing pile of wreaths of th&npoppiuu the front of the Cenotaph. Tributes were also placed ...

Published: Thursday 02 July 1981
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 756 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... veers. IS. Nair Dryer in leather case. suitable for treyellins. E 3 Tel 768387. VIVO ORIGINAL TIM/8 Newspepers. 1515 battle of the Somme. etc.. splandid condlt lon. inch Craigaon 43756 OIL PAINTING on canvas. • 'Nora. Galloping Tbrough Watar. 24 36. 110 ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1981
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 225 | Page: 15 | Tags: none