... P FLASHBACK For 1916 was, of course, the year of the first Battle of the Somme when whole battalions were wiped out in minutes on the Western Front battlefield. Thousands were mown down by German machine-gun fire as they were ordered over the top in ...

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... the Territorial Army and was later commissioned into the 9th Battalion The Royal Scots. He endured the horrors of the Battle of the Somme, when a day’s casualties were counted in their thousands. Mr Clark himself was wounded in the foot in no man’s Back ...

... Bray. 1.00 MASH (R) 1.25 Children’s BBC: Brum (R) 1.35 Stoppit and Tldyué) (R) 1.40 A Day That Shook the World: The Battle of the Somme (b/w) 1.45 The First Noels (R) 2.00 News. 2.05 Songs of Praise (C) 2.35 Country File; News. CLYDE and FORTH VELICOPTERS ...

... birthday today. Mrs Adams, of Church Gresley, Derbys, was left with five children when husband William died at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Bill Procter, Britain’s oldest man, celebrated his 108th birthday at New Ferry, Wirral, Merseyside, yesterday ...

... GUIDE 1.00 MASH (R) 1.25 CHILDREN’S BBC: Brum (R) 1.35 STOPPIT AND TIDYUP (R) 1.40 A DAY THAT SHOOK THE WORLD: THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME (bw) 1.45 THE FIRST NOELS (R) 2.00 NEWS 2.05 SONGS OF PRAISE (C) (S) 2.35 COUNTRYFILE; (S) NEWS %mmmmm 3.50 NEWS; (C) ...