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... Over the top: Scottish troops advance near Arras during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The massive losses they suffered may go some way to explaining the killing of prisoners. and the last surviving First World War veteran at Erskine Hospital, said ...
... each other in a battle of attrition for the following ten weeks and, despite the first ever tank attack, at Flers, they remained entrenched in their positions. The battle ended after weeks of atrocious weather. - The second battle, the Somme Offensive, took ...
... P FLASHBACK For 1916 was, of course, the year of the first Battle of the Somme when whole battalions were wiped out in minutes on the Western Front battlefield. Thousands were mown down by German machine-gun fire as they were ordered over the top in ...
... THE Princess Royal paid tribute to the Royal Newfoundland Regiment at a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme during a visit to the Canadian province. People — Page 5 ...
... Ragout de pommes de terre Thezy-Glimont THEZY-GLIMONT is a place, not a person, a stone’s throw from the site of the Battle of the Somme. Apparently the vegetables there are terrific. This ragout from the area is the speciality of ...
... Nicosia: cypriot Michael Efthyvoulos, who survived the Battle of the Somme in the First World War and a German PoW camp in the Second World War, has been buried Ignleooola. He died on Tuesday aged cllqaq:omkyehologlst Luke Parker (29), Manchester, and ...
... recent ghoto of the Gordon Highlanders rought back to mind a story told to me 30 years ago by an English veteran of the Battle of the Somme. English and Scottish troops were waiting in their trenches for the order to go over the top. “The Jocks” were given ...
... Timewatch Eighty years after the Battle Of The Somme, history finds Field Marshal Earl Haig may not merit the tag of blundering butcher. BBC 2, 9.30-10.30 pm The Naked Truth Tabloid journalist Tea Leoni strays from the moral high ground to earn a fast ...
... Born in Cumbria on 29 June, 1885, Mr Procter moved to the Wirral, on Merseyside, in his 20s. He was wounded at the Battle of the Somme, was sent home but later returned to action and was then gassed. — PA ...
... Cenotaph in London on Wednesday July 1 he is organising a ceremony, the first, to commemorate those who fell in the Battle of the Somme. Louise Thompson, 9, will lay a laurel wreath (“older than poppies — and a natural organic material”) for her Scottish ...
... (Radio 5] 4, 3:15 pm). 1 * The Monday Play: ' Fields of Grey, Marching. Mike Walker's play, set in 1916 after the battle of the Somme, is a story of fear and misuse of the occult. With Julia Swift and Robert Glenister (Radio 4, 8 pm). * Queen Street ...
... War memorial Sir, - I read with interest the recent article relating to the 80th anniversary of the disastrous Battle of the Somme. Mention was made of the war memorial at Beaumont Hamel. I thought readers might like to know that the memorial, a kilted ...