NORTH AFRICA

... NORTH AFRICA uns and you can have delicious ) ) steak and kidney pudding, When we landed in North chicken curry, chicken supreme Africa during the war the first and sumptuous ginger and treacle thing I did was dig a trench,” he puddings. said. “Our troops ...

Published: Friday 16 July 1982
Newspaper: Mid Sussex Times
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

French spy

... German song and was “captured” by the British soldiers who heard it sung by the guards at the prisoner of war camps in North Africa during the war. Well, the fisher people of Cleveland stole the monkey song from the fisher girls from Boddam. And VK soon ...

Published: Tuesday 12 October 1982
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

JUDGE'S STRONG COMMENTS. VERDICT FOR PLAINTIFF

... action for libel brought by Col. Hill Godfrey Morgan against the “Times™ arising ont of the sale of stores in South Africa after the war, Justice Lawrance, in summing up, made some observations on what he described as the unapproachable attitude taken ...

Published: Saturday 15 April 1905
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 167 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE GREAT SKIN CURE

... PROPOSED WAR MEMORIAL IN LINCOLN CATHEDRAL. A regimental memorial, it is announced, is to be placed in Lincoln Cathedral, bearing the names of those members of the Lincolnshire regiment, including volunteers, who fell or died in South Africa during the ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1903
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

: This week at : « THE STATE . “THE HILL”

... : This week at : « THE STATE . “THE HILL” In a grim British military stockade in North Africa during World War II the prisoners in this detention camp have meted out to them as one of the forms of punishment the forced and repeated climb in {4l pack and ...

Published: Tuesday 25 January 1966
Newspaper: Gainsborough Evening News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 160 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

At Leningrad

... Mediterranean. In 1946 he was aboard the aircraft carrier escorting HMS Vanguard, when the late King and Queen went to South Africa. The war had been over for twou long years before the navy let him out with the full rank of able seaman. To change from ‘“ordinary” ...

Published: Friday 13 February 1959
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 324 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PARK Sixty years on, the war still rages

... PARK Sixty years on, the war still rages THE FIRST World War, which reached its catastrophic impasse in the Second Battle of Passchendaele 60 geean ago, is still ing fought. The terrain now is literary, a series of books in which historians and survivors ...

Published: Monday 07 November 1977
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 311 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BBC 2

... HISTORYMAN 2.00: NETWORK EAST 2.40: FILM: BITTER VICTORY (1957) — Two officers on a mission in North Africa in World War 11 find themselves fighting a personal war of jealousy and rivalry 4.15: FILM: CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE (1948) — Tyrone Power stars as a Spanish ...

Published: Thursday 07 December 1989
Newspaper: Banbury Guardian
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

SOUTH AFRICA,

... SOUTH AFRICA, Monday's war telegrams show that a Boer commandc in the Eastern Transvaal was in possession of no fewer than five guns. They had made three separate attacks on General Bullock's column, and the efforts to capture the artillery had not been ...

African adventure A UNIQUE FUND RAISING SCHEME WITH EDUCATIONAL PACKAGE EXCHANGE TWO Bakewell men will be ..

... party of five adventurers setting out on a 2,500 mile walking expedition from London to Africa next month for charity. It is part of a fund raising campaign for ‘War on Want' leaving London on November Ist and travelling through many European countries ...

Published: Friday 03 October 1986
Newspaper: Matlock Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 331 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BBC 2

... bases 3.10 FILMS: A RICHARD BURTON DOUBLE-BILL. BITTER VICTORY. (1957). Two officers in North Africa in World War Il find them- selves fighting a personal war of jealousy ang nvairy 4.50 FILM: ALEXANDER THE GREAT. (1955). Heyoay of the Macedonian prince ...

Published: Friday 02 December 1988
Newspaper: Mid Sussex Times
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 157 | Page: 68 | Tags: none

H

... Burton (Central, Sunday) Raid on Rommel isoneina series of Richard Burton movies. In North Africa during World War I 1 a British officer releases prisoners of war and leads them ...

Published: Friday 30 April 1982
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 15 | Tags: none