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GREAT AND COMPREHENSIVE

... other day that wo thought the capture of a few hundred yards of trench a matter for rejoicing . With the coining of the battle of the Somme the British public learned to expect the dail y gain of a French village as regularly as . the morning milk . Now such ...

Published: Tuesday 20 March 1917
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 167 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

16 YEARS AFTER HE WENT OVER THE TOP Ex-Soldier on Trial for Triple Murder

... clock and 6 . 30 on . the morning of September 15 , 1916 , Hubert Cedrio Jopson first went over the top during , tho Battle of the Somme .. Exactly sixteen years Jatcr , betweon 6 and 6 . 30 on the morning 1 of September 151932 Hubert Jopson killed his ...

Published: Tuesday 15 November 1932
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 154 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

A SOMME MEMORY

... A SOMME MEMORY I would like to know if there are any or many left who took part in the second Battle of the Somme, September 15, 1916, the first time the tanks were used. It was the 13th Royal Scots who went over first: the 7th Cameron Highlanders came ...

Published: Wednesday 15 August 1951
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

B 01 ND AND SOJIME ; ANNIVERSARIES

... 36 th ) Division , recruited entirely from the Province , was decimated'in a hero ic aWaek on ThiepvaL'in the first battle of the . Somme . . Reierence to the trapicaHy-glorious event ' was made in most churches' yesterday ^ on ' , the oocasion of the ...

Published: Monday 02 July 1923
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Ll'l“l'l.l'm ILE 'I'INW NSION

... tribute to Northern Irel 's success in the battle against nq”p:{mnt and thanked the e for their warm reception. - After a rmu part Government House, the &nen and the Duke reviewed veterans of the Battle of the Somme. ...

Published: Tuesday 05 July 1966
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 84 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Oldest man on parade at 108

... Born in Cumbria on 29 June, 1885, Mr Procter moved to the Wirral, on Merseyside, in his 20s. He was wounded at the Battle of the Somme, was sent home but later returned to action and was then gassed. — PA ...

Published: Wednesday 30 June 1993
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NOW AND THEN

... NOW AND THEN 13 NOVEMBER ’ 1093: At the Battle of Alnwick, in invasion of England, King Malcolm lil was killed. Malcolm Canmore was the last of the Celtic Kings of Scotland and husband of St Margaret. 1718: Battle of Sheriffmuir between the Jacobite army ...

Published: Monday 13 November 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

A NEW OFFICIAL MAP

... , d tflstanc © of about 150 mile Tho map marks tho changes in the line at , at July 1 , at March 12 th , dfter the battle of the Somme , and at Apul 27 th last and as the oalo i 1 men to 3 9 r mJes , minute detail of place mimes , heights , Lo , are clearly ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1917
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 130 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CHELTENHAM COLLEGE

... assistant master there from 1922-32 . During the War he served in the Royal Artillery , was severely wounded at the Battle of the Somme , and was awarded the M . C . On a year ' s leave of absence in 1927-28 he taught at Upper Canada CollegeToronto , and ...

Published: Monday 14 December 1936
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

S. M. Notley. Wars for freedom

... killed, wounded, and uxslsflnk' than .W other combatant in the First World War for freedom. In anniversary p mmes of the Battle of tEe Somme (which was more disastrous than Flodden for Scotland), I have heard mention of England, Germany, France, the Commonwealth ...

Published: Thursday 08 July 1976
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

are everywhere and they must be preserved.” Davidson was in Edinburgh on Friday, where he recovered one roll of ..

... Cenotaph in London on Wednesday July 1 he is organising a ceremony, the first, to commemorate those who fell in the Battle of the Somme. Louise Thompson, 9, will lay a laurel wreath (“older than poppies — and a natural organic material”) for her Scottish ...

Published: Sunday 21 June 1998
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Cheltenham College Headniastersliip

... Kosevearc . who was born in 1897 . served in the Army ( R . F . A . ) from 1915 to 1919 . being severely wounded at tho Battle of the Somme . He gained the Military Cross and Croix do Guerre . Subsequently he was at Trinity College , Cambridge , where he was ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1932
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 172 | Page: 13 | Tags: none