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... present there are 250 disabled men at Erskine. Our future responsibilities have increased immeasurably as a result of the Second World War. Erskine is a llospital, a Training Establishment and a Ilene in one for disabled men of all three Service The Royal ...

Published: Friday 26 March 1948
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 201 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The 1911 Coos —but oh i loq tradition

... Britain was taken in 1801; and there has been one every ten years since with the exception of the war year 1941. Since the Second World War, full censuses have been taken in 1951 and 1961; the people of Scotland have always co-operated to the full in this vital ...

Published: Friday 16 April 1971
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 256 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

Retired Banker

... and was also identified with Wishaw Bowling In the 1914-1918 war he served with the Highland Light Infantry and in the Second World War his som, who was With the Royal Aix ‘orce, made the supreme x TAFF PRESENTATIO The staff of Wishaw Public School met ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1957
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 236 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WORLD WAR II

... during the dark days of the early thirties, these, with many more welfare and routine activities filled the years till the Second World War broke out and the cycle of war work started all over again, this time on a plan at once more restricted (such was the ...

Published: Friday 16 October 1959
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 250 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

CRAIGNEUK'

... distinguished German Lutheran minister, Dr Hanna Silje. This was of a serv;ce he conducted one Christmas Eve during the Second World War In a prison cell In Berlin while be was in the custody of the Gestapo. There was an exceptionally large attendance a: ...

Published: Friday 31 December 1971
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 254 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

I•uuntuiu in I delicate tb• Co:nurs

... present these colours to our company in memory cf her brother, James W. K. Mitchell, who made the supreme sacrifice in the Second World War. We remember him name with sincere affection his on our war memorial.” appears ...

Published: Friday 15 June 1956
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 217 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Motherwell Bank Manager's Retiral

... reside at 9 Crawford Street, Motherwell. He began his career at Brechin and was later at the Arbroath branch. During the Second World War he served with the Black Watch to which he was commissioned, and demobilised with the rank of captain. After the war ...

Published: Friday 16 January 1959
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 230 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

ODEON

... return of the comedy about mine host whose hotel keeps , falling into and out of British and German hands during a Second World War desert campaign and of the arrangements he makes for his conflicting guests. Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Ustinov and David ...

Published: Friday 06 February 1959
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 211 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Let's go to * * * * * * the Pictures

... PLAYHOUSE This week-end-- The Hunters Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner and May Britt. Blitzkrieg (Monday - Wednesday) The Second World War as seen through the eyes of German combat cameramen with shots of some of the fiercest fighting on the various fronts ...

Published: Friday 10 April 1959
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 222 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Morton's turns armour into `radiation shield'

... of the swords into ploughshares variety —to build steel shielding rooms for hospitals out of metal from First and Second World War battleships. The rooms will be used to ted many of these rooms for house large scanning monitors In Nuclear Enterprises' ...

Published: Friday 11 August 1972
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 220 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Cameronian

... 18 he was awarded the D.S.O. and Bar, M.C., and Italian Silver Medal for valour, and was mentioned 12 times in In the Second World War he was taken prisoner by the Germans while serving as a Corps Commander in the Western Desert. In 1943, however, he escaped ...

Published: Friday 18 November 1955
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 222 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Years of

... Fellowship and a Senior Caird Scholarship for research in nuclear physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. During the Second World War he was with the Royal Aircraft Establishment and the Ministry of Supply. Under the latter's auspices he went to the U ...

Published: Friday 28 April 1967
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 242 | Page: 11 | Tags: none