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... Test Your Knowledge Answers 1) Antarctica; 2) Tripoli; 3) They areall woodwind instruments; 4) Geneva; 5) The Battle of the Somme in World War I; 6) The Salvation Army. 1) Frimley Green, Surrey; 2) Rugby — they . are Scottish internationalists; 3) English; ...

Published: Friday 25 January 1991
Newspaper: Deeside Piper
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 48 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

LR after the disaster

... the earthquake, which had been proceeded by drought, the rains came and turned the landscape in something like the Battle of the Somme. Saturday’s “Earthquake India”, Channel 4, visits the refugee camps where the homeless are divided into castes, follows ...

Published: Friday 12 November 1993
Newspaper: Deeside Piper
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 128 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

Preserved

... and preserved it as a memorial to the men who fought and died there. Now every year on July 1 at 7.30 am, when the battle of the Somme started, a small service is held on the site. The Friends of Lochnagar care for the crater and they are behind the moves ...

Published: Friday 27 August 1993
Newspaper: Deeside Piper
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 325 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

£6.95), now in the bookshops, writes: ‘lt remains beyond dispute that the Somme was a tragedy and its ..

... at the battles of the Somme. The last battle of the Somme was to storm the fortress of Beaumont Hamel, ‘‘the significance of that curiously neglected last battle” being the subject of the last chapter. Acknowledging that the first day of the ...

UNIQUE in concept — The Gordon Highlanders Memorial in the Kirktown of Peterhead, erected at the apex of the ..

... succeeded but sometimes failed, and four more lines have generally succeeded.” The casualties in the battles of the Somme were horendous. The first day of battle, Ist July, 1916, the Corps suffered more than 14,000 casualties. One Division lost 223 officers ...

THE BANFFSHIRE HERALD SOUK BOOK MOTU. One of the important literary events of the year is the publication, by ..

... Campaign in France and Flanders, 1916. It contains the first detailed account of the gigantic Battle of the Somme. The author calculates that in this battle, taking conservative figures, the total combatants of the three armies were not less than three ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1918
Newspaper: Banffshire Herald
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 595 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE BANFF S:

... their youngest son, LiCpl. Wm. Ilcßobuie, Cordons. ho was 22 years of age, and fell in action on tae opening day of the battle of the Somme. he enlisted shortly atter the outbreak of war, and was wounded three times. He was home on furlough quite recandy. ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1918
Newspaper: Banffshire Herald
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 976 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE BANFFSHIRE HERALD

... clerk in the sisvii.s of the G.N.S.R. He enlisted in Sept. 1914, when he was 15 years of age. and took part in the battle of the Somme in August, 1916. He returned to Franco in March of the present year, and was home on furlough about two weeks ago. Mr ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1918
Newspaper: Banffshire Herald
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1647 | Page: 6 | Tags: none