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Casualties

... everybody in Kent. This is the size of our debt of honour for the service of 200,000 men in the First and 175,000 in the Second World War, in which they suffered more than 43,000 casualties, ...

Published: Friday 26 June 1970
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 84 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Picture: Roger Vaughan Story: Helen Sissons THE last plane flew out of the famous wartime airfield at West ..

... Sissons THE last plane flew out of the famous wartime airfield at West Malling yesterday. S Fittingly, the honour goes to a Second World War plane — a re-built 1942 North American Harvard trainer. The plane has been put together over the past four months by ...

Published: Friday 13 November 1992
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 293 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

reunion

... reunion A MEMBER of a Second World War army group which was a forerunner of today’s SAS has enjoyed a 50th anniversary reunion with former colleagues. Jim Patch from West Farleigh was a ‘member of the Long Range Desert Group, which went behind enemy lines ...

Published: Friday 20 October 1995
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

Lunch date for old comrades FORMER members of Kent volunteer companies had the chance to ‘catch up with old ..

... - annual lunch in Maidstone. More than 50 people, some of whom served with the Maidstone based 507 company during the Second World War, attended the 50th anniversary lunch of the Royal Army Service Corps Kent Companies Old Comrades Association at the ...

Published: Thursday 27 March 1997
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Farewell

... retired R held Percy T. Baker 'A Mr. Covrther Baker Ai: Col -Baker In m. m i . clerk River Catchme Board at Cambridge Second World War bro He nl C.imbrNicoshir, BAKER, cc:dents • • the histur. Sir Vivian Fuchs. ht. rear 0: itetk • AMP. LT. COL. E. T. ...

FOURPENCE

... College, Oxford. He has been Conservative M.P. for Bexley since 1950. ~ Mr. Heath served in the Royal Artillery in the Second World ‘War, rising from the ranks to . lieutenant-colonel. ...

Published: Friday 16 October 1959
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 73 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CRANBROOK

... story of Operation Market Garden, the massive military thrust aimed at Arnhem in the hope of hastening the end of ‘the Second World War, . Jlassic Three: March Or Die(A) ...

Published: Tuesday 18 October 1977
Newspaper: South Eastern Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 79 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

Hope And Glory (15)

... And Glory (15) John Boorman wrote, produced and directed this moving and .evocative presentation of nostalgia — the - Second World War and its effects on others as seen through the eyes of an mywold boy living in London. ’ ‘The film is_based on Boorman’s ...

Published: Friday 05 February 1988
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

ENT AT WAR

... work of the Air Raid Precaution - Services and National Fire Service is featured in this week’s pictorial feature of the Second World War in Maidstone and district. ,4 1 i L, ;4 2 = P o Some idea of what it felt like to be up one of the new turntable escapes ...

Published: Tuesday 10 August 1976
Newspaper: South Eastern Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 85 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

CONVOYS

... carry the city's sludge down the river Thames 60 miles out to sea. Capt. Norton was a Wster in this fleet throughout the Second World War and until 1981, when he was promoted Marine Superintendent. ...

TOURING EUROPES BATTLEGROUNDS Explore major areas of action visiting - Europes battlegrounds on a luxury guided ..

... areas of action visiting - Europes battlegrounds on a luxury guided coachtour. Select from our range of Great War and Second World War tours, including BATTLEFIELDS OF THE GREAT WAR (Ypres-Somme-Arras-Loos-Vimy) 3/4 DAY MINITOURS TO GREAT WAR SITES, ARNHEM ...

Published: Friday 03 February 1995
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 67 | Page: 21 | Tags: none