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250,000 D.P.s Risk Death Each Year

... Curtain into the free world. Nearly 400,000 *‘victims ot war and aggression’”’ have been resettled in America since the Second World War, the Commission disclosed in a final report before it goes out of existence at the end of this month.—Reuter. ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1952
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 69 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

John Neilson Centenary Fund GIFT OF £lOO

... that money raised shall be used to provide a War Memorial in the school to commemorate former pupils who fell in the Second World War; to endow a Centenary Prize Fund to augment existing prize funds; and to establish a Playing Fields Equipment Fund. ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1952
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 77 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FORMIDABLE WAR PROGRAMME

... of - hittle more than an hour King George V launched a vessel from each of the three yards then in being. During the Second } World War when the command on our resources was very great, Kleming & ‘Ferguson's programme was a formidable one indeed. The call ...

Published: Thursday 10 July 1952
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 336 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Three Americans – Convicted GAVE PLANS TO RUSSIA

... Morton Sobell (33). The three were accused of passing atom secrets to an international spy ring for Russia during the Second World War. The secrets, the prosecutor contended, included drawings of the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.—Reuter ...

Published: Friday 30 March 1951
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 91 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NOTABLE SCOT DEAD-

... former minister of Pollok shieltis West Church, Glasgow. and of St. Andrew's Church , Lisbon. He was in Spain during the Second World War and was awarded the Cross of DadlcatiOn by the Portuguese Red Cross for his worst on behalf of prisoners and refugees ...

Published: Friday 23 November 1951
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 97 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Scots Soldier To Serve 15-Year Term

... Review veteran, T. A. Wight (41), Scots tea planter in Johore, Malaya, and a Commando Major against the Japanese in the Second World war, ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1951
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 85 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OBI!TUARY—

... Dundas, R.N. .(retd.) (58), who served as Chief-of-Staff to Admiral Cunningham’s East Mediterranean Command in the Second World . War. He was a native of London. lan Strang (85), of Bletchiey, Bucks, — a noted Engiish etcher, and son of Mr William Strang ...

Published: Thursday 27 March 1952
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 109 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CENTENARY FUND The above Fund, which is being raised for the benefit of the School to mark its Centenary Year,

... Year, has as its main objects the following:— A War Memorial in the School to commemorate Former Pupils who fell in the Second World War, | The endowment of a Centenary Prize Fund to augment existing Prize Funds. The establishment of a Playing Fields Equipment ...

Published: Friday 14 November 1952
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 107 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

OBITUARY—

... ths war years, 1939-45 Mrs Marie Macneil (65), founder of the Scottish Clans’ evacuation pian for children during the Second World War and the former wife of Robert Lister Macneil, the Macneil of Barra, 45th Chief of the Ctan Macaeil. ...

Published: Saturday 03 May 1952
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 120 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Death Of Naval Architect

... small craft, such as tugs, dredgers, and barges and wrote a book on the subject entitled ‘‘ Screw Tug Design.” During the Second World War he was in charge of the building of all the tugs for the Ministry of Transport and for his services in that respect was ...

Published: Wednesday 10 December 1952
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 137 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Death of Mr R. H. Clark, C.A

... health, becoming honorary president. He is survived by two sons and two daughters. His youngest son was killed in the Second ‘World War. Mr Clark was a native of Paisley where the family resided in Oakshaw. As a young man he was well-known in athletic cireles ...

Published: Friday 18 July 1952
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 120 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Lylesland Church NEW HALL TO BE PROCEEDED WITH

... Street site. It was also decided to commemorate the sacrifice of those who gave up their lives for King and country in the Second World War by incorporating & suitable war memorial in the present church. A shrine in the new church on the Rowan Street site had ...

Published: Tuesday 16 January 1951
Newspaper: Paisley Daily Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 137 | Page: 2 | Tags: none