... Derick Roskell, Victoria Street Memories wanted of Boer War NEXT year sees the centenary of the outbreak of the Boer War - tmoFs of the British Empire fighting the Boers of South Africa. This was the war where we first reckoned ‘our boys will be home for ...

... After the ne world war, which will, as 1 say, be the rea Armageddon (of which the Great War was only as a kitchen squabble in oomfi.riwn). It will take seven months to bury the dead, and seven years in which to seslmy the implements of war that have been ...

... ® During the war he was shot down twice. On one of the occasions his glider was hit ~b_v “flak > and plunged into the sea a few miles off the coast of Sicily Mr. Manley, wounded in both legs, clung to a piece of wreckage through the night until, ten hours ...

... has never been a pleasant, but, on the other hand, has always ‘been a mischievous neighbour in South Africa. It has promoted most of the native wars which have been so troublesome to the South African colonies : it has been a consistent upholder of the ...

... bringing cargoes of grain, timber, oranges, cotton and iron ore from ‘America, Africa and the West Indies. Later, Fleetwood became the premier fishing port on the West Coast. The cod wars of the 1960's led to a decline in the fishing trade but inshore trawlers ...

... insurrection ectuallv, He expresses the hope that an Ameriean war steamer may be at once despatched to that port. The present outhreak evidently has heen long contemplated, and is intended to be a war of extermination by the blacks agsinst the whites ; and ...

... accomplished pianist, before the war he was a well-known dance band leader in his native town of St Helen's. During the war he served in the RAF and organised an RAF dance band and theatre band in Nairobi and East Africa. Mr Briggs, who was a teacher for ...

... bringing cargoes of grain, timber, oranges, cotton and iron ore from America, Africa and the West Indies. Later, Fleetwood became the premier fishing port on the West Coast. The cod wars of the 1960's led to a decline in the fishing trade but inshore trawlers ...

... Command into believing that the invasion might come from North Africa. This is the memorable story of how an unknown Lieutenant in the Pay Corps suddenly became the most important cog in the great war machine that was preparing for the invasion of Normandy. ...

... for the cremation Born in Nelson, he came to Barnoldswick at an earl: age, and served with the Army in East Africa during the first world war. On | return he entered the cottn trade. Associated with th St John Ambulance fo, many years, Mr Duxbur, joined ...

... Brigade. To live in hearts that loved him is not to die.” From Brother and Sisters and Cousin Maggie. 217 p S WAR. - A table in the report of the War Graves Commission, headed *‘ Death Casualties and Registered Graves,” gives the following death casualties ...

... patriotism by denouncing the war and its authors wherever opportunity occurred.” Mr. Ramsay McDonald and his wife visited South Africa in 1902, and afterwards lhe published the book entitled, ** What 1 saw in. South Africa.”” In 1901 he was elected to ...