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Organ recital – – is tonight 'I‘HE organ recital at Peter– _borough Cathedral by Frederick Tulan will he given ..

... mun:tf man he went Canada and, until the Fi World War, went into fa ing there. He juined 1 Canadian Army and, in t battle of the Somme, w wounded and lost the low part of his left leg. He w sent to Milton Park to con valesce. S—atly wne? Heémarried in ...

Published: Wednesday 19 October 1960
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 395 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TWO WESTWOOD WORKS VETERANS BOW OUT

... September, 1913, vice with the Bth Northand has been employed as amptonshire Regiment at a clerical worker in every the Battle of the Somme time office in the factory in 1916 forced him to find and latterly in the ac- Other work. He joined counts department ...

Published: Tuesday 28 March 1961
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 266 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

He coughed up 1918 shrapnel

... in and-a-half long, half an inch thick, and weighed half an ounce. Mr. Haywood was struck by the shrapnel during the Battle of the Somme in 1918 when serving with the 2nd Wellington Regiment. The metal pierced his eye and became lodged behind it. ~ Time ...

Published: Wednesday 21 March 1962
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

' IS 1

... Benedict. But to veterans of the first World War it is something more: it is the anniversary of the beginning of the Battle oof the Somme ABOUT 150,000 refugees have crossed into India from East Pakistan so far this vear. a spokesman of the Rehabilitation ...

Published: Saturday 21 March 1964
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 308 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

~ BBC-1 CHANNEL 5

... initiative the Alliesl launch offensives around the whole perimeter of the war. The British fight the five months’ Battle of the Somme. 10.05 THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW My Husband is not a Drunk . . . he's only under the influencel 10.30 NOT SO MUCH A PROGRAMME ...

Published: Friday 08 January 1965
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 172 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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

Old soldiers who are not forgotten

... First World War. A former Seaton Burn man, Mr Hill was there the first time the guards were in the front line — at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He was alongside Colonel Campbell, who was given the Victoria Cross, nicknamed the “tallyhoo cross” because ...

Published: Thursday 11 August 1977
Newspaper: Blyth News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 176 | Page: 7 | Tags: none