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TODAY marks the oot anniversary ol the opening of the Battle of the Somme in the 1914-18 war. It was

... TODAY marks the oot anniversary ol the opening of the Battle of the Somme in the 1914-18 war. It was a day described as “fateful and fatal” in the history of the 1/4th Battn. the Duke of Wellington's Regt., the Halifax Territorial unit. “No one who was ...

Published: Friday 01 July 1966
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 2576 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

g R ACRO LT R Halifax grime and a blurred memory

... portray one'’s grief and pride on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme? This massive slaughter left a reek of death which the years have little diminished. The villagers of the Somme valley put paper Union Jacks in their windows last weekend, ...

Published: Wednesday 06 July 1966
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 243 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

I — T HEC T T B nx grime and rred memory

... 40, Heathy Lane, Holmfield, Halifax. ortray one's grief and pride on the 50th f the Battle of the Somme? This massive eek of death which the years have little the Somme jon Jacks in veekend, but Letters are accepted for “QOther People’s Opinions ”’ on ...

Published: Wednesday 06 July 1966
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WENT OVER SIDE

... celebrated their golden wedding in August, 1961. Her husban&:u one of the Halifax Old um%t‘iblea. and won the D.M.C. at the Battle of the Somme. He was a former licensee of the Museum Hotel, Stump Cross. and had also worked for Frederick Smith and Co. Ltd., wire ...

Published: Monday 09 January 1967
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 573 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

“Inheritance” battle UNCONSCIOUS MAN IN YARD —OPEN VERDICT

... Halifax authoress Dr. Phsllis Bentley; in the background, a battlefield scene—at Wli:n—wherc Granada TV is restaging the Battle of the Somme for its marathon drama series “ Inheritance.” Based on Dr. Bentley’s novels of West Riding life from 1812 to 1965, the ...

Published: Tuesday 19 September 1967
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 638 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

First tanks

... rather than doing the supporting. Our reader was in the King's Royal Rifles, serving with the Rifle Brigade, at the Battle of the Somme, where the tanks had their active service baptismand took the Germans by surprise. The first official trial of the tank ...

Published: Tuesday 21 November 1967
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 195 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

boy loses fight for life Reunion for Somme veterans

... loses fight for life Reunion for Somme veterans AN APPEAL has gone out for former members of the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, to attend a commemorative service marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. The British Embassy in Paris has ...

Published: Tuesday 04 February 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

‘Somme veteran remembers. . . gl

... ‘Somme veteran remembers. . . gl THE 70th anniversary memorial of the Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest campaigns in history, startsonJuly 1. . . Invitations to a memorial service in Thiepval, in Northern France, have been sent out to survivors ...

Published: Tuesday 11 February 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 484 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Mr John Dewhirst, aged 90

... the age of 7S. During the first world war he was in the Royal Field Artillery and served in France. He fought in the battles of the Somme and Ypres. He was a sergeant in the Home Guard in the last war. He was a life long member of St James's Parish Church ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 167 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CHANNEL 4

... and to survive the greatest disaster in the history of the British Army? To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme some of the remaining survivors tell their remarkable stories. 11.00 FILM: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Colourful film ...

Published: Wednesday 25 June 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 291 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

O\ Rl6al= 2N

... O\ Rl6al= 2N Reg Glonr[, left, as he is today, and, right, as a young man in 1916. He and other survivors of the Battle of the Somme talk about what it was like to go over the top in the documentary ‘‘Lions Led By Donkeys,’’ which is repeated on Channel ...

Published: Wednesday 25 June 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 60 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

‘D BBCI

... these championships while Gerald Williams collates the stories making today’s news. 11.00 THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The first day of the Battle of the Somme was the worst in British military history. In less than 24 hours 60,000 British soldiers became ...

Published: Thursday 26 June 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 319 | Page: 3 | Tags: none