... site where thousands died in a First World War battle. Sinn Fein’s Alex Maskey laid his wreath at a ceremony in Belgium in memory of those from the north and south of Ireland who died in the Battle of the Somme. He was joined by unionist politicians, including ...

... special meeting of Belfast City Council on to honour the men of the 36th Ulster Division who died and were injured at the Battle of the Somme, and to pay tribute to them. To all fair-minded observers, this was an historic act, in that a republican Lord Mayor ...

... they are nearly all from the March battles of 1918 and it is doubtful if any these men are from Ulster. D uring the Battle of the Somme between July and November 1916 all of the British army fought north of the river Somme, and the Ulster Division fought ...

... No peace at any price THIS week I watched on television the funeral of William Calvert, the last survivor of the Battle of the Somme, and I wondered if this brave man was as ashamed of our unionist politicians as I am. He and his brave comrades fought ...

... in north-eastern France. It continued throughout most of the year, though on a smaller scale after the launch of the Battle of the Somme in July. h‘;North orVeg:’n the German attack developed a very t acfioumhukmflnnedwlafim vigorously maintained by our troops ...

... British Legion in Armagh remembered fallen comrades at the Somme. Orangemen in Omagh and Castlederg also held Somme commemorative parades and ceremonies. In Banbridge and Londonderry, the Somme anniversary was marked by the Royal British Legion. @® The ...

... about his time in uniform. “The war that I knew bore no comparison to World War One. The men there went through the Battle of the Somme and horrible events like it. “I'm only speaking from my own experierce but it bore no relationship to it at all.” After ...

... night about 200 members of the Order, headed by the Clarke Memorial Flute Band, paraded through the city on the 84th Battle of the Somme Commemoration ceremony, at the Cenotaph on the Mall, Three wreaths were laid. In a separate ceremony a wreath, in memory ...

... 1943 was known as Charles McMoran Wilson, had come through the First World War and winning the Military Cross at the Battle of the Somme. Despite their friendship, Lord Moran was not blind to Churchill’s failings and _ recorded the good and the bad in an ...

... made by so many during the Battle of the Somme, the threat to their final resting place seems to be diminishing.” Earlier this year, the French authorities announced plans to build a third airport for Paris at Chaulmes in the Somme region. The proposal was ...

... nationalist Short Strand where there have been constant sectarian clashes in recent weeks. The parade, commemorating the Battle of the Somme, passes by the Catholic enclave where rival mobs fought it out last month. The Commission said it had “considerable ...

... identification with both World Wars, until this Russian visit, was confined to the West. My grandfather fought at the Battle of the Somme, my uncle served in Africa and the Far East during the Second World War, and I was born in 1940, a war-baby whose early ...