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Somali troops on the run

... Somali troops on the run Ethiopia claimed fresh gains against Somali forces in the Horn of Africa war and its troops were rzgorted grouping today for a major thrust Oft Iclals In Addis Ababa stopped short of ranking their latest military success as the ...

Published: Wednesday 08 February 1978
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 75 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

A veteran remembers

... veterans who attended the annual service of the Birmingham and Midland South Africa War Veterans Association — the only remaining service in the country for those who fought the war at the turn of the century. Although the number of old soldiers was small ...

Published: Monday 05 June 1972
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 241 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... other day, he came across “ A Soldier's Thoughts,” composed on a midnight guard duty while serving with the R.AF. in Africa during the war. And what were a soldier's thoughts? ° Naturally, they were thoughts of home. ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1962
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 92 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Look before we leap

... Look before we leap In reply to C. Taff (June 5) regarding Russia in Africa, what a war monger he must be. Does he think that military force would be confined to Africa once it was launched? And does he think that it would just stop at traditional weapons ...

Published: Thursday 08 June 1978
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

B HALL

... for the Boer prisoners of war at St. Helena in the last South Africa war came from Atherstone. In the vicinity is Mancetter Manor House, so closely assoc’ated with the Glovers, the Martyrs; and the house where the council of war above referred to is still ...

Published: Friday 31 August 1917
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 673 | Page: 17 | 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

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... 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

Off to new life in South Africa

... family plan to make South Africa their permanent home. Their destination is Johannesbl\dlrg, where a job is waiting for Mr. Jarvis. 2 Mr. Jarvis spent six years in North Africa during the war but his wife, Gladys, has never been abroad They are not in the least ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1964
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 184 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

9.00: PAGES FROM CEEFAX 9.55: OPEN UNIVERSITY 1.30: PAGES FROM CEEFAX 2.15: FILM — BITTER VICTORY: Starring ..

... 30: PAGES FROM CEEFAX 2.15: FILM — BITTER VICTORY: Starring Richard Burton, Curt Jurgens and Ruth Roman. It is Norh Africa during World War 11. On a special document raid, two offices come into conflict: one is hiding an innate cowardice, and other is c ...

Published: Friday 23 January 1987
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 302 | Page: 63 | Tags: none

RADID

... General Bayerlein said: “If Auchinleck had not been the man he was, and by that I mean the best Allied General in North Africa during the war, Rommel would have finished the Bth Army off.” The Money Programme (BBC-2) looks at the oil boom in the North Sea, ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1974
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 371 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

POLITENESS TO PRISONERS IS THE by DENNIS BARKER

... him into the Prison Service was an interest in administration which grew when he was in -military administration in Africa during the war. It is just as well that this is a dominant flair, for large and o vercrowded Stafford is a hard nut administratively ...

Published: Thursday 03 May 1962
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 505 | Page: 8 | Tags: none