... TODAY marks the oot anniversary ol the opening of the Battle of the Somme in the 1914-18 war. It was a day described as “fateful and fatal” in the history of the 1/4th Battn. the Duke of Wellington's Regt., the Halifax Territorial unit. “No one who was ...

... portray one'’s grief and pride on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme? This massive slaughter left a reek of death which the years have little diminished. The villagers of the Somme valley put paper Union Jacks in their windows last weekend, ...

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... celebrated their golden wedding in August, 1961. Her husban&:u one of the Halifax Old um%t‘iblea. and won the D.M.C. at the Battle of the Somme. He was a former licensee of the Museum Hotel, Stump Cross. and had also worked for Frederick Smith and Co. Ltd., wire ...

... Halifax authoress Dr. Phsllis Bentley; in the background, a battlefield scene—at Wli:n—wherc Granada TV is restaging the Battle of the Somme for its marathon drama series “ Inheritance.” Based on Dr. Bentley’s novels of West Riding life from 1812 to 1965, the ...

... rather than doing the supporting. Our reader was in the King's Royal Rifles, serving with the Rifle Brigade, at the Battle of the Somme, where the tanks had their active service baptismand took the Germans by surprise. The first official trial of the tank ...

... First World War. A former Seaton Burn man, Mr Hill was there the first time the guards were in the front line — at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He was alongside Colonel Campbell, who was given the Victoria Cross, nicknamed the “tallyhoo cross” because ...

... the casualty list was so high that men of all heights were accepted. In 1916 Tom was sent to France to fight at the Battle of the Somme Towards the end of the War Tom was “sericusly injured discharged. Tom now the longest serving member of the Coldstream ...

... with the casualty list high, men of all heights were being enlisted. In 1916 he was sent to fight in France at the Battle of the Somme. He was twice wounded and later discharged. Mr Hill was born in Cornhill - upon - Tweed but worked as an engine driver ...

... Beatrice Street, Ashington, a resident at Essendene Old People’s Home, Ashington, for the past three years. ; At the Battle of the Somme in 1916, Mr Cowans, a sergeant with the Tyneside and Scottish Regiment, was awarded the Military Medal, and while on ...

... member of the British Legion, Mr Cook was in France and Belgium during the First World War, serving at Ypres and the Battle of the Somme. The funeral service was heid at Queen Street Methodist Church, Horncastie. Family mourners were: Mrs Dora Cook, widow; ...

... 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, and four tours are going there. Many people in their seventies want to see their fathers' graves, mostly for the first time. “And next year will see the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele.” Mr ...