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... Paper to Depots, are requested to communicate with Mrs. Chichester. Telephone Ballymena LEGION 24th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme The Otheer Commanding the I.T.C. has invited the local Kx-Servioeroen to join his unit in a CHURCH PARADE SUNDAY. JUNK ...
... Borough Council, prompted Councillor David Allen to point out at the monthly meeting that July 1. the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, haa been omitted. The town clerk, Mr. J. S. Mcllroy, said whether it was general practice or not, the flag was always ...
... BRITISH LEGION No. 3 GROUP PARADE 40th Anniyersary of the Formation of 'The Mritish Legion and 45th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. A PARADE and will be held ‘ ON SUNDAY, 2nd JULY at which all ex-Servicemen and ~Nomen In Bailymena and District are ...
... UTE ON SUNDAY FORTY-SEVEN years ago, on the “Ist July, 1916, the Ulster Division suffered grievous casualties in the Battle of the Somme and among those mortally wounded were many men from Ballymena and district. In remembrance of those who gave their lives ...
... left was taken in 1968 when they travelled to Belfast to take part in celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. In the picture from left: George Robinson, Jack Watson, N. J. B. McNeice, William Perry, Charles Watson, William Hogg ...
... to the Somme’ describes how the Mid- Antrim men were caught in rolls of barbed wire and subjected to an intense cross-fire which left ‘heaps of dead’ in no-man'’s land. They became part of the horrific statistics which make the Battle of the Somme the worst ...
... THE SOMME ANNIVERSARY. Sunday last was the anniversary gf great battle of the Somme, and what might call the Thiepval tragedy. In 1916 that First July the men the Ulster Division their valiant conduct on the field of battle earned everlasting renown for ...
... well as arranging ;lht pilgrimages, he wrote a short history of the entire Battle of the | Somme on its SOth anniversa y. | Although unwell, he was ible to | attend the Somme celebrations, but | was prevented from taking part in ‘lhe second pilgrimage ...
... mates wil! rlemember how he often talked of the Battle of the Somme, as with tears in his eyes, he recalled the many young Ulster men who gave their lives in that historic battle. Billy fought at the Somme himself, and his large circle of friends in the ...
... requested. J. KYLE, Secretary, Ballymena. BT. PATRICKS, BALLYMENA, SUNDAY, JULY Ist, 11-30 a-m. Seventh Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. SPECIAL SERVICE. PARADE OF CHURCH LADS' BRIGADE AND GIRL GUIDES. 44 ...
... memory Ulstermen who fell in the Great War. The day is the anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme 1916, when the 36th Ulster Division lost heavily. From a point near Whitehall Lord Craigavon will lead to the Cenotaph contingent about Northern ...
... Im memory of those who fell at the Somme THE 49th ANNIVERSARY of the Battle of the Somme was remembered in Ballymena at a short service in the ‘Memorial Park last Thursday evening. 1t was conducted by the Rev. John Dunwoody, of First Ballymena, Ex-Servicemen ...