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OPERATIC SOCIETY’S SHOW

... the turn of the century) and charts the progress of the war from its beginning in Sarajevo to its conclusion at the battle of the Somme. The story is told from several different viewpoints: the official news, the officers, the soldiers and nurses, and ...

Published: Friday 13 April 1984
Newspaper: Hucknall Dispatch
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 207 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Ilit}l_‘anyone know George Samuel Allen?

... Samuel Allen. George Allen died of influenza in July 1918 and is buried at Hucknall Cemetery. He was a veteran of the Battle of the Somme but was serving as a sergeant instructor with the newly established Royal Air Force at Cranwell, Lincolnshire, at the ...

Published: Friday 20 June 1997
Newspaper: Hucknall Dispatch
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DISPATCH, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1997 M in 1829 Britain’s first regular bus-service - e Marylebone Road and the Bank Of

... London. M in 1865 William Booth formed the Salvation Army at a meeting in Whitechapel, London. W in 1916 the first Battle of the Somme began with more than 21,000 men killed on the opening day. e M in 1937 the telephone emer- gency-service 999, became ...

Published: Friday 04 July 1997
Newspaper: Hucknall Dispatch
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 86 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Youngsters pay their respects

... Gelsthorpe whose name appears on the Hucknall War Memorial and who died, aged 20, on July 1 1916 (the first day of the Battle of the Somme). The cemetery-register showed him to be the brother of Mrs L.Perkins, of 68 Bentinck Street, Hucknall but, mysteriously ...

Published: Friday 25 July 1997
Newspaper: Hucknall Dispatch
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 347 | Page: 10 | Tags: none