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... British Legion commemorates Battle of the Somme THE Royal British Legion celebrates its own 80th birthday on Sunday (July 1) when it also commemorates the 85th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. Members of the Dromore branch will form up at the ...
... g Dromore remembers the Somme Battle of the Somme There was no parade, but members were joined at the war memorial by representatives of a number of community groups, as well as council chairman, Councillor David Herron and Councillors Paul Rankin and ...
... bloodiest battles of the First World War, the Battle of the Somme. Out of the 5,500 members of the 36th Ulster Division only 3,000 were still alive after the two day battle in July, 1917. William, also fought in two other battles, the ...
... CENTRE Travel back in time and relive the Battle of the Somme as you walk along the trenches, look into No Man's Land and experience the sights and sounds of the Battlefield For more information please contact: The Somme Heritage Centre, Whitespots Cou Park ...
... bright. It was hard to believe he was 102 years of age. “He had done so much in his long life, not least his role in the Battle of the Somme and it is sad that we have lost an important link with that period of our history. “Mr Calvert will be sadly missed ...
... challenges. “I proposed that July 1 be added to commemorate the many Ulstermen who made the supreme sacrifice at the Battle of the Somme and it was also proposed that July 12 be also added.” Mr. Crawford recalled how this proposal was opposed by Sinn Fein ...
... conferred upon the RUC that the National Flag was not in evidence, the same situation prevailed at commemoration of the Battle of the Somme.” “As leader of the DUP group on Lisburn Borough Council I have already written to_the Chief Executive ‘expressing my ...
... ‘confident’ Somme airport proposal will not proceed THE Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Dr John Reid has said he is confident the French government will not go ahead with the proposal to build a new airport for Paris on the site of Somme war graves ...
... Church to honour the last remaining soldier from Northern Ireland who fought during one of the bloodiest battles of the Great War at the Battle of the Somme. William Calvert, from Mercer Street in Lisburn, passed away at Lagan Valley Hospital, at the age of ...
... Martin’s ‘missing’ list are down as having fought in France and Flanders, four of them dying on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Others are said to have fought in the Balkans, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Egyptand ‘home’, the latter an indication, Mr ...
... independent trading by the company. J.C. Patterson's first opened for business in 1916 - the same year in which the Battle of the Somme claimed thousands of Irish lives including many young men from Lisburn. The Shop was founded by Mr. John Clarke Patterson ...
... different place to the one into which Mrs. Hutton was born. When she celebrated her 18th birthday the slaughter of the Battle of the Somme which plunged so many local homes into grief had yet to happen. When she was forty the world had yet to experience the ...