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War is still a killer

... million people have been killed in hundreds of wars since 1945. Two million children have died in armed conflicts during the last decade and refugee families are suffering today in Eastern Europe, Africa and elsewhere. Remembrance should be a time when ...

Published: Thursday 22 October 1998
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Portents of war, royal upsets and witchcraft

... in Europe. He go to war over Cyprus. On the religious front, Hewitt firedict.sßritam'sCardinalßasil ume will be made Pope between August, 1995 and April, 1996. 2 Turbulence in Southern Europe and Africa, is predicted, as well as war in the Middle East. ...

Published: Thursday 08 September 1994
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 269 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

T 1 F U L Cycle journeys led to love

... World War she volunteered to do war work at Bligh's Garage and John left his job as a bus conductor with the East Kent Road Car Company to spend five years with the Royal Navy. He served in the Mediterranean taking supplies to Malta and North Africa, was ...

Published: Thursday 21 October 1999
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 246 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

Abdulrazak Gurnah — shortlisted for the Booker Prize

... First World War book, looks set to be his break into the major league. It takes place in German East Africa and records the local attitudes to the trials and tribuations of colonial rule. “It is about the perlod before the First World War but from the ...

Published: Thursday 15 September 1994
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 110 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Gothic horror!

... followed for four daysl Campbell Scott in a story Gl‘ lovey alienation and eroticism aigh) The Sheltering Sky Set in post-war North Africa, this visual sensation is based on the cult novel by Paul Bowles and filmed in Morocco and Niger. ...

Published: Friday 17 May 1991
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 45 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

Desert battle anniversary

... e the start of one of the most important battles of the Second World War. Members of the Whitstable and Canterbury branches of the Royal British Legion will gather at Whitstable War Memorial on Friday, October 23, the 50th anniversary of the battle of ...

Published: Friday 09 October 1992
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Stop the decay

... minds, we should ask whether the state of Canterbury’s war memorial in the Buttermarket does honour either to those it commemorates or to us who profess to keep the memory of the dead of two world wars alive. The stone from which it was carved is soft and ...

Published: Thursday 18 November 1999
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ROY Hattersley, former Labour deputy leader, will be at Canterbury Authors bookshop Waterstone’s tonight ..

... A Prejudiced History of Britain Since the War, Fifty Years On. . On Monday Dervla Murphy will be in conversation with John talklng Murray about her new volume, South from Limpopo: Travels Through South Africa. On Tuesday Chris Morton and Ceri Louise Thomas ...

Published: Thursday 16 October 1997
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 92 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Young friendship turning to gold

... married at ms, Bishopsbourne, but were soon parted when he was drafted to North Africa and Italy. After the war he went back to his jobmbyfiiemulaw’s—nken over by Caffyns during war — and remained there until his retirement as warehouse 3 Heabommaforfl\e Bourne ...

Published: Friday 22 June 1990
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

the Dolly’s appetite for world travel

... visiting Australia, South Africa and the Middle East, sometimes with family and sometimes alone.” i Mrs Dunsdan was born Dorothy Mitchell in London in 1898. Her father Walter Mitchell worked in the Kimberley Diamond Mines in South Africa and she went out to ...

Published: Thursday 01 October 1998
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

Archbishop series

... million Anglicans around the world. It was a busy year for Dr Carey, who visited Mozambique, South Africa, Los Angeles and Rome, officiated at the Gulf War memorial service and counselled royaity. The first episode, which will be shown on Sunday, follows ...

Published: Thursday 06 March 1997
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

100 happy and healthy years

... during the First World War and married barrister Cedric Willway in 1922. Mrs Willway brought up their two children, Michael and Elizabeth, in London and Surrey. Mr Willway served in North Africa and Italy during the Second World War while their son, Michael ...

Published: Thursday 10 September 1998
Newspaper: Kentish Gazette
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 22 | Tags: none