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... QUIET ceremony at Aberdeen Eoyal Infirmary this week marked the heroism of a Northeast man 71 years ago. During the Battle of the Somme, 2nd Lieutenant William Maitland narrowly escaped death while wiping out a German gun crew singlehanded. A bullet pierced ...
... Booking Office—Marr Woods. Ltd.. 183 Union Street. PALACE. The Greatest. Most Remarkable Picture Ever Filmed, THE BATTLE of the SOMME, Taken t>v Special Arrangement, with the War Office CROFT AND NAUGHTON, a Scotch Comedy Sketch. And Full Picture and ...
... succeeded in capturing it, but were ejected by a French counter-attack, • which was immediately launched. WEDNESDAY. Battle of the Somme. The earlier of the three British official communiques issued yesterday states that the Germans have been reinforced ...
... battalions of the Highland Light Infantry. If any reader has any photos or stories relating to these battalions during the battle of the Somme, we would like to hear from them. Charles McDonald, Scottish History Re-enactment Workshop, 61 Whitby Street, Parkhead ...
... Anderson served in the ranks in the last war and had the distinction of being commissioned in the field during the Battle of the Somme to a Regular battalion of The Gordon Highlanders. Baillie Anderson. ...
... ik 425 WAR WALKS ★ Richard Holmes traces the events of the Battle of the Somme, when 57,000 Allied sokHers were klHed or wounded. (R) (6030856) 425 RUGBY SPECIAL ★ John Inverdale presents highlights of the weekend's PHklngton Cup semi-finals, as Sale ...
... and the infantry are full of admiration at the way the stretcher-bearers worked. I shall have a vivid picture the battle of the Somme in my mind if live to be 100. The fighting spirit the British Army great just now, and if the Roches are fighting with ...
... actions in the disastrous Battle of the Somme, and his book tells the whole sickening story in vivid detail. The Somme . . a battle bloody that the casualty lists of Stalingrad, and even Hiroshima pall bv comparison. The Somme . . where the ...
... through the week's stories. (C) (5).(157686) WESTERN FRO Richard Holmes presents a documentary asking what made the Battle of the Somme such a disaster, laying blame at the door of Generals Haig and Rawlinson. Were their poor leadership skills largely ...
... y 150 machines were ordered from Messrs Foster, Sir William Tritton'e Lincoln company. Such tanks as took part the battle of the Somme were made either at Lincoln or by the Metropolitan Carnage Company. They were all from Sir William Tritton's drawings ...
... POINT OF VIEW. CHAMPAGNE BATTLE FALSE ANALOGY. Paris, Wednesday. French officer gave the Press Association correspondent some interesting sidelights the German point view, gathered from prisoners taken ; the Battle of the Somme. He said the Germans, more ...
... awarded the Aliiitary Medal. Private Utlton has been two years with the colours, and was badly wounded in the second Battle of the Somme After his discharge from hospital ha paid to f nvern««, reJurmng to tlie front in January last. In civil life. Private ...