GOLDEN N.-EAST COUPLES

... During World War I served a corporal with the Hill., winning the Military Medal at Tpres. Later be was badly gassed the Battle of the Somme and invalided home. The couple, who are celebrating their anniversary with quiet family party their home tonight, have ...

Published: Saturday 24 May 1969
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 337 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

ASSISTING A SISTER

... deeply regretted the incident. Be was a man of excellent character, had served in the Army for several years and at the Battle of the Somme wy.s given a commbision from the lignite. Be quite mistook the pollee-sergeiuit'i action in the matter and thought the ...

Published: Friday 31 December 1920
Newspaper: West London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 350 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CHILDREN UNDER HALF-FARE ^ Vho— y—r local SutimmmmtUr. ——wruw

... SIAN 23 YBARS LATER. It Was revealed at a Hammersan ith inqusst yesterday (Thursday) that a gua > hot woun | in’ the Battle of the Somme, iD 1916, was the indirect Cause of v man’s death, which oceurned in Brompton Hospital on Tuesday Tbe dead Thain Was ...

Published: Friday 25 August 1939
Newspaper: West London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 832 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

PRESENTATION TO POSTMAN

... Grange, but when war broke out he was one of the Old Gontemptibles; and went out to France. On :August 28th in the first battle of the Somme. he was wounded and captured by the Germans. and was held as a prisoner of war in Germany until 1919. Before the Great ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1940
Newspaper: Morecambe Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 389 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BALES BT AUCTION A PEIVATE

... Portlaod-streot (near Oxford*: ire us). DAILY, 2.30 and 8. JTHE BIG PUSH. (( THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, Official Pictoree of the British Army in , France. Also FRENCH OFFENSIVE ON THE SOMME and the WILLIAMSON EX. PEDITION SUBMARINE PICTURES. THREE HOURS THREE GREAT ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1916
Newspaper: East London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

VILLAGERS’ FAREWELL GIFT TO WHALLEY SERGEANT

... of 16, he joined the Manchester Regiment and saw active service In France. Belgium and Italy, being wounded in the battle of the Somme. It was three years after the end of the war —on January 12 th, 1921. that Sergeant Turner entered the police service ...

Published: Friday 21 August 1953
Newspaper: Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 380 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

V _ for oes to I Britain r the Gordons ■ j . ■ , and ottwrtetalioni—war* OapoaHto. In Jannarr,

... early In Uaßh. Kalaer bluff. * ♦ ♦ Armistice b»tt*llon top to attack V ameta In the The battalion took oyer part rat Battle of the Somme, the line on the which laated tea month*— Plateau In April and eoo- July to Noyemhl r. 1918. They tlnued their rafda ...

Published: Tuesday 22 February 1966
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 394 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PORTADOWN ATHLETE'S SUCCESS

... Ballinacor Methodist Church at 6 p.m. June 28—Annual memorial service St. Mark's Church at 7 p.m., for men who fell at the Battle of the Somme— Preacher, Eev. I. H. A. King rector of KiUylea. June 25—Combined excursion to Warrenpoint of the Sunday Schools of ...

Published: Friday 19 June 1931
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 319 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... Hamiltonsbawn, Etc PORTADOWN, FRIDAY, JUDY A.,1930. Battle of the Somme. SERVICE AT SEAGOE. Portadowu ex-Service men, undei - l.Hit’t. F. J. CJ«rk«», Sergeant-Major F. Oirvan, attended a special Somme anuiversarv service in Parish Cliureh, on Sunday morning ...

Published: Friday 04 July 1930
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 604 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

They're News This Week

... he served as a combatant with the Royal Fusiliers and the 'Marine Gun Corps. He was ,severely wounded in the first battle of the Somme in July 1916, as a result of which his arm was amputated in *llan Wield floapital He received his training at St. Aidan's ...

Published: Saturday 25 September 1948
Newspaper: Morecambe Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 419 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TARTARLOHLN PARISH

... discourse he psi', a hating tribute to the gallant boys who Nei paid the supreme sacrifice on July Ist, 1016, at the Battle of the Somme. In conclusion, he made an appeal for the Lord Enniskillen Memorial Fund, which was heartily responded 10. The special ...

Published: Friday 08 July 1927
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 390 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DIES, AGED 77

... immediately for active service and was commissioned as an officer in the Catheron Highlanders. He was badly wounded at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. When again fit for active service, he joined the East Elgin girls for Bavaria Kingussie man’s fencing success ...

Published: Wednesday 23 July 1969
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 375 | Page: 16 | Tags: none