... “It is total silence. People ask if it is eerie but it’s not.” Phoebe’s grandfather, Charles Grundy, fought at the Battle of the Somme and died two weeks before the end of the First World War after being wounded and gassed. She appreciates the concerns ...

... first man away from Dunboe was an Articlave man named William Kennedy, who had been on reserve. The Battle of the Somme was surely the mother of all battles as far as Articlave was concerned. Two who came home were Robert Johnston and Andrew Maden but those ...

... Messines and Passchendaele before coming south for the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917. Here, a number of men were lost; among them Robert McNabb, whose brother, John, had been killed in the Battle for Pilkem Ridge in August. The battalion then moved ...

... inexperienced British soldiers huddle in the cold and muddy trenches in France awaiting the onset of the disastrous 1916 Battle of the Somme. As their vigil drags on, the tension becomes unbearable and the men begin to doubt that their commanding officers are ...

... REMEMBER TRAVEL BACK IN TIME AND RELIVE THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME AS YOU WALK ALONG THE TRENCHES. LOOK INTO NO MAN'S LAM) AND EXPERIENCE THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF THE BATTLEFIELD hu more information please contact The Somme Heritage Park Centre Whitespots Country ...

... republicans from the m Belgium, to remember those area, who perished in battle. vices, because of its opposition to from all over Ireland, who died a k t the Battle of the Somme. Hunt for victims' relat i ves draws a blank A h t presen t,C hin a, will ...

... believes any of these things have happened? Hi storians suggest that there was a lack of strategic plauning behind the Battle of the Somme. They imply that the troops were lions led by establishment donkeys. All these years later, does a similar situation ...

... TRIMBLE QUITS STORMONT JOB ULSTER wakes up this morn- By Pauline Reynolds and the Battle of the Somme. ing in a political vacuum, with First Minister David Trimble Alan Murray the UU talks team, welcomed the resignation as essential in bringquitting ...

... Rt ster) said the cemeteries were e LY R A .YR /1 v i é—flfi;.& P 0 SR S and shoutd o W BATTLE: British soldiers prepare to go over the top during the battle of the Somme “Significantly they ought not to n be desecrated by governments and it is for that reason ...

... knows? On July 1, Alex Maskey, as Mayor of Belfast, laid a laurel wreath in memory of those who lost their lives at the Battle of the Somme during the First World War. A Clonard priest said it was an opening of the republican heart. If so, it is to be welcomed ...

... extreme. Four of the men were lost in Gallipoli and 10 on July 1, at the Somme. @ The Battle of the Somme lasted until November and a number of men were killed in a succession of battles from all these areas during this time. Many of these young men from Portrush ...

... manner.” A crowd gathered in Portadown centre to send them on their way to the annual church service commemorating the Battle of the Somme. In his sermon, the rector of Drumcree Parish Church, the Rev John Pickering, referred to the continuing situation outside ...