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Tobruk rats go on parade

... annual event at Cranford War Memorial and Holy Angels Church in Cranford High Street at 4pm. The parade and _ _ service win be attended by ex-servicemen, known as rats, who fought in the bank of Tobruk in North Africa In World War H. ...

Published: Thursday 11 April 1996
Newspaper: Middlesex Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 71 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

boyd

... raised in Ghana and Nigeria so it's hardly surprising that three of his novels, A Good Man in Africa, An Ice-cream War and Brazzaville Beach have been set in Africa His other novels include The New Confessions and Stars and Bars, a quirky comedy of an ambitious ...

Published: Friday 07 January 1994
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 135 | Page: 91 | Tags: none

To6nik Parade at Cranford War

... To6nik Parade at Cranford War Memorial for a laying of wreaths on Sunday afternoon. The ceremony is in honour of members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces who fought in North Africa in World War 11. Over 3,000 Allied servicemen and women died ...

Published: Thursday 08 April 1999
Newspaper: Middlesex Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 173 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Slight for sore eves

... eye. We are both 77 and I've also been queuing as long for the same operation. We served in the Bth Army in North Africa during the war. What a way to treat old soldiers. Health Secretary Kenneth powers covering reli- Clarke has a lot to gious discrimination ...

Published: Tuesday 26 June 1990
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 157 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

HISTORY (AFRICA)

... HISTORY (AFRICA) Farago, Ladislas. War in the Horn of Africa: Legacy of Haile Selassie King of Kings. 20cm.316. 67i11. n.e.of “Abyssinia on the Eve”. Allborough Current Issues S. pbk £9.50 Allborough Publishing Nuffield Cl.,Cambridge CB4 ISS (1.92) 1 ...

Published: Friday 07 February 1992
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 118 | Page: 65 | Tags: none

LESLIE WARREN

... to England with his family in 1939 to appear at the Tower Circus, Blackpool, and when war was declared made his way back to Australia via South Africa. After the war Leslie Warren returned to the UK as part of Warren, Latona and Sparks, his wife Maisie ...

Published: Thursday 10 November 1994
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 197 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Breindel, Eric. Verona Project

... 18tabs. £BO.OO Camb.U.P. (5.1999) 0521470307 History (Second World War) PR Beevor, Antony. Stalingrad. 23cm.512. IIL.M. n.e. pbk £12.99 Penguin (5.1999) 0140249850 History (Africa) Boer War Services of Military Officers of the British and Colonial Armies ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1999
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 284 | Page: 57 | Tags: none

\a. ,SS ‘ X - 3R] the bestse (5 th f 1 LTLI AT A GOOD MAN IN AFRICA

... \a. ,SS ‘ X - 3R] the bestse (5 th f 1 LTLI AT A GOOD MAN IN AFRICA. AN CE-CREAM WAR. STARS AND 1 BARS i THE NEW CONFES ) ‘. ¥ - ; t st [ ON THE YANKEE . - STATION. H TR - .- A ¥ . y e Sy ol et T o 19 90 f t t idaptation fMa - o o 5 v ) 1 AUNT JULIA ...

Published: Friday 06 July 1990
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 243 | Page: 42 | Tags: none

Irtf ) IC. • t e• ,

... Association (BLESMA) told Buckingham Palace about the special day. Mr Tadd . was an ambulance driver Italy and North Africa during the war and he is a member of BLESMA because a bomb wound to his kg left him with a bad limp. Mr Tadd, who spends his free ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1995
Newspaper: Hayes & Harlington Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 255 | Page: 14 | Tags: none