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Mr H. Stokes

... locally all his life. He was a television installation engineer for Radio Rentals until retiring in June, 1985. During the Second World War he served in Egypt with the RAF in supply and transport. Mr Stokes leaves his wife, Dorothy, one son, five daughters ...

Mr F. Hoyles

... widower, he leaves a daughter and five sons. Mr Hoyles used to be foreman bricklayer for Barbers Builders and during the Second World War served in the army with the medical corps in Italy. The funeral took place at Boston crematorium conducted by the Rev ...

Forgotten

... Forgotten After all, the First World War ended nearly 70 years ago and even the Second World War is more than 40 years behind us. It is not only the heroes who tend to be forgotten, but also the thousands of ordinary men and women who over the years have ...

OBITUARY Ex-United player dies at7B

... He then helped with the running of Boston Reserves and their “A team. He served with the Royal Marines throughout the Second World War, saw action in North Africa and was involved with the invasion of Sicily and with the Normandy landings. After the war ...

Mr J. Atkinson

... for 58 years before moving to Boston 18 years ago. Mr Atkinson was a pig farmer until retiring in 1977, and during the Second World War he served in the army — and was a prisoner of war for five years. He leaves his partner Mrs G. Brook. A funeral service ...

Royal Flying Corps

... of time and energy in first trade politics and then local politics. Plane crashed I have digressed as usual from the Second World War but this postscript will help me return. Mr Clark from Woad Farm Road, who lived in a house near Kelsey Bridge during ...

AND THE JEWELS OF HOLLAND R o’;\ \‘ & o “ \ S 4 J \ |° A N e

... where the Koh 1 Noor diamond in the Briish Crown jewsls was cut + Visit to Amhem scene of the famous Batle during the Second World War * Visit to Kroller Muller art museum - famous for its collection of Van Gogh's- over lifty of them + Alternoon at Het ...

Memories of killing fields linger 0n..

... fields linger 0n IN this year of . 50th anniversaries with a seemingly-endless stream of reports given over to the Second World War it might be easy to forget the events of the devastating war that preceeded it. says his death was reported in the Standard ...

Family gather for milestone

... gardening and when asked about the war he explained: “1 was Just 0o young for the First World War and just 100 old for the Second World War, so they didn't want me'” ...

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... concentrating on the 450 celebrations, but do they not rcalise that had it not been for the brave men and women in the Second World War Boston may not have reached 450 years? : I for one am very sad and disappointed at the lack of remembrance. Yours etc ...

l YING on the River Lud in a desigated area of outstanding natural beauty — the Lincolnshire Wolds — is

... King Ethlered of Mercia. Memorial Bardney also has a memorial to No 9 Squadron which was based in the village during the Second World War. Wragby is a pleasant village situated ten miles from Lincoln on the Al5B. Settled originally by the Vikings, it is recorded ...

MrF. J. Cooper

... Cooper and the late Mr James Cooper. He had always lived in the village except for three and a half years during the Second World War when he served as an Able Seaman on a Royal Navy destroyer. Mr Cooper was a parish councillor and a governor of Cowley ...