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RUSSIA AND THE WEST

... complains about my short memory and, in doing so, rather unjustly accuses me of forgetting about some gruesome events of the Second World War, such as the awful misery foisted on the Soviets by the tyrannical German Army and the obliteration of Hiroshima and ...

Published: Friday 23 November 1984
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 100 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Changes in G.P.O. sub-offices

... telephone exchange. A native of Unst, Samuel took over the office after serving four vears in the Royal Navy. When the second world war broke out, he took over Haroldswick exchange, operating a 24-hour continuous service, but was relieved of this responsibility ...

Published: Friday 09 October 1970
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Medal for former postman

... years. He started in Guthrie and was was a postman at Forfar from 1946 antil his retiral earlier this year. During the second world war he served in the Royal Artillery with the 14th Army at Burma. Mr Duke, who is 62, is a bachelqr. %%’ main hobby is bowling ...

Published: Thursday 26 August 1971
Newspaper: Kirriemuir Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Businessman’s death

... St Andrews, and joined the staff of Guard Bridge Paper Company. Later he received an appointment in India and when the Second World War broke out he joined the army and was stationed there for the duration. On returning to St Andrews after the war, he set ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1974
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

... TIME IS RUNNING OUT

... Sir—~Next year we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the United Nations. Created by revulsion from the havoc caused by the Second World War, the U.N, has managed to survive almost two and a half decades.of this violent century. It has not always lived up to ...

Published: Friday 24 October 1969
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 116 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

SUNDAY

... in typical form as two of the silliest asses ever to be called up for military service doing their utmost to lose the Second World War. Richard Attenborough is their long-suffering leader. (1956). Bermuda Mystery (Ch. 4, 350 p.m.) — Comedy-thriller starring ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1985
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

through part-time work and from donations from various local Trusts and charities. R & 453 AFS are a private ..

... organisation founded in 1914 as a volunteer ambulance corps with the French armies during World War One, and, during the Second World War American volunteers drove ambulances for the allied forces. in 1947 the AFS initiated a ‘winter programme’ which enabled ...

Published: Friday 02 April 1982
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

At the North Star

... building and destruction of an essential bridge on the “death railway™ built by prisoners of the Japanese during the Second World War. Double helpings of horror on Thursday only with “Fright starring Honor Blackman in a tale of murder and terror, and ...

Published: Friday 29 March 1974
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 114 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

EMIGRATION

... about emigration from Shetland to mainland Britain and abroad -at any period from about 1870:up to the beginning of * the Second World War, although I have a particular interest in the 19205. If any of your .readers have first hand knowledge or experience ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1979
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

New Lord Lieutenant appointed

... cardine to hold the post. Educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford, he served with the Scots Guards during the Second World War. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant in 1955, and in 1980/81 was Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the ...

Published: Friday 25 September 1987
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Memorial tree offer declined

... offer to plant a tree in memory of a St Andrews man who lost his life while serving with the United States Army in the Second World War has been declined by the soldier's brother, Mr |. Crichton. Mr Crich ~rcnton had requested that the name of his late ...

Published: Friday 25 March 1988
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 104 | Page: 4 | Tags: none