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Lishurn man held at German war camp

... German war camp MR. AND MRS. R. W. FERGUSON, Sprucefield House, Lisburn, were officially notified in March 1944 during the Second World War, that their second son, Sergeant- Navigator Robert Ferguson, Royal Air Force, reported missing two months earlier, was ...

Published: Friday 11 March 1994
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 72 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

INS AT SEA

... INS AT SEA Mr. Pill’s father was also a coastguard. Two of his sons were at sea during the Second World War. Alfred, now an engineer at Fleetwood, was on a minesweeper and Reginald who is now in Preston, served in the Merchant Navy. His other sons, Gerry ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1961
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 80 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

BACK INC-W-U HALL AGAIN

... pay a return visit to Lisburn Christian Workers' Union Hall to-morrow night. He first visited the local C.W.U. in the Second World War (1939-1946) when he had a very successful tent campaign in Belfast. Hehas been back several times since for the ‘‘One ...

Published: Friday 03 October 1975
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

= Lisburn Borough Council LISBURN MUSEUM —EXHIBITIONSBATTLE OF THE BOYNE A Tercentenary Exhibition illustrating ..

... continues until 31st August ON THE HOME FRONT 193945 The Museum’s collection of artefacts and photographs relating to the Second World War continues until 21st December QUILTS FROM THE VIKING HUSQVARNA CHALLENGE COMPETITION Including demonstrations of patchwork ...

Published: Friday 22 June 1990
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 76 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Local man honoured by Monty

... certificate was in recognitionof outstanding service and devotion to duty during the campaign in North-West Europe during the Second World War. Instructions were given that the honour was to be noted in Lance-Corporal Megarry’s Army record. ...

Published: Friday 15 September 1995
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 82 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

offence

... offence A FARMER was fined five shillings at a petty sessions court in Northern Ireland in June 1942 during the Second World War for a breach of the blackout regulations. At the end of the court the farmer rather timidly approached the Bench and said ...

Published: Friday 12 June 1992
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 92 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

– DANCING

... - DANCING Durin\s the Second World War the hall which catered for dancing proved a welcome off-duty retreat for Servicemen stationed in the area. After 1945 it was greatly used by local organisations but, in the main, only the First World War men seemed ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1970
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

SURPRISED

... Nation was secured, it is a terrible pity that in the first World War the Paisleyites were too young to fight, and in the Second World War they were too old to fight. Perhaps Mr. Belshaw overlooks both Wars as unimportant. ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1969
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

Lisburn airman killed in action

... killed in action MR. and Mrs. G. Mercer, PlantatiBn, Lisburn, received official intimation in January 1943 during the Second World War, that their only son, Sergeant Air Gunner Hill Mercer, had been killed in action. He had previously been reported missing ...

Published: Friday 15 January 1993
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 80 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

Old time dance at town's Assembly Room

... Dancetime Quartet, was taking place in the Assembly Rooms, Lisburn, on Wednesday evenings from September 1944 during the Second World War. Dancing was from eight o'clock until halfpast eleven and the admission charges were a shilling and sixpence for ladies ...

Published: Friday 02 September 1994
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

... and has taken a keen interest in public affairs down the years. He is an ex-serviceman, having served in the RAF in the second World War. He was the first president of the Lisburn Chamber of Commerce, first chairman of the Lisburn Historical Society, past ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1973
Newspaper: Ulster Star
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

REVIEW

... in the common cause it an excessive reticence were to prevent a general misunderstanding what Mitain has done in the Second World War, and within quit everyone will &este ,sassimmilliNll ...

Published: Friday 25 February 1944
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 93 | Page: 4 | Tags: none