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... team of green-fingered experts 1.30 Minstrels Gallery. 2.00 Oh Joanna. 2.30 Colfier's Jazz. 3.00 All Gallery, Tues/Battle of the Somme; Wed/South Coast Country; visit Seaford G.tv‘n&,g:‘b 2.02 Saturday Session. Music and About Dogs. 3.20 Ideas in Action ...

Published: Friday 27 June 1986
Newspaper: Littlehampton Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 323 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

Q)10 1916 Slaughter on the Somme SEVENTY yoars sgo naxt wesk the bloodiest battle of World War One was fought

... Q)10 1916 Slaughter on the Somme SEVENTY yoars sgo naxt wesk the bloodiest battle of World War One was fought in France - The Battle of the Somme Thousands died in the contlict, u’mmg them the young men of Calderdala - in their prime, fighting fit and ...

Published: Friday 27 June 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 95 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Deat

... after he was partly responsible for the bloodiest day in the history of warfare, July 1, 1916, the opening of the Battle of the Somme. Such is the totally awful reputation of the world war one generals that I half expected some historian to pop up during ...

Published: Saturday 28 June 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2233 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

YORKSHIRE

... YORKSHIRE 6.55 TV-AM. 9.20 REGIONAL WEATHER. 9.25 GETTING ON. The 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. 10.00 MORNING WORSHIP. 11.00 LIVE AND LEARN. 11.30 FARMING DIARY. Followed by farming and inshore weather. 12.00 JOBWATCH. The differences between ...

Published: Saturday 28 June 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 287 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Human error blamed HUMAN error is thought to have caused a crash between two trains in which 30 people were

... the spotlight once again fell on the veterans of Kitchener’s Army which faced the might of the German Kaiser in the Battle of the Somme. At the foot of the awesome Tiepval Memorial in Northern France a small group of 70 frail men — some carried to their ...

Published: Tuesday 01 July 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 351 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Red letter day for Eric, 90

... He served with the Duke of Wellington’s regiment in France in the first world war and was injured twice during the Battle of the Somme. Mr Robertshaw, whose wife Ellen died in 1955, has always lived in Mytholmroyd. He sang with the Zion Methodist Church ...

Published: Wednesday 17 September 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 132 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

The twin town that Halifax forgot..

... German forces in August 1914 and for the next three years remained behind enemy lines. It escaped the carnage of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 even though it is only 10 miles from Thiepval, scene of the fiercest fighting. But in February 1917 the Germans ...

Published: Saturday 04 October 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1098 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MONDAY BEST Blooms of the battlefield

... fighting and the death of thousands of young men at the Battle of the Somme. At Querrieu is the chateau where George V stayed during the hostilities and which now houses documents concerning the battle. The proud boast of the French is that they live to eat ...

Published: Monday 27 October 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 842 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MrT. Allen

... War he served in the South Staffordshire Regiment, and was invalided out in October 1916, after being wounded in the Battle of the Somme where he was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in action. The funeral took place at St Andrew’'s Church, Billingborough ...

Club news' from the left, Mr

... war. Mr Sutcliffe and Mr Shotton served in France, Belgium and Italy and Mr Harding was wounded by shrapnel in the Battle of the Somme in September, 1916. Club secretary Mr Waliter Birkby is convinced that bowls has helped keep them going. “I’'m only ...

Published: Friday 21 November 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 439 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

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... of Kent visits Bridlington to open Leisure World. He is A. C. H. Pearson, of St Anne’s Bungalows, a veteran of the Battle of the Somme in the First World War. Mr Pearson was glad to hear the call from the Mayor of East Yorkshire, Councillor David Stevenson ...

Published: Thursday 19 February 1987
Newspaper: Bridlington Free Press
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 4 | Tags: none