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Ballymoney, Antrim, Northern Ireland

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PROMOTION FROM THE RANKS

... service at the front, where his gallantry and efficiency won for him his present rani re . lber lg was wounded in the battle of the Somme. After serving his time in the firm of Messrs. Robinson & Cleaver, Belfast. be enlisted in the Y.C.V.'s, and weal So ...

PORTSTEWART CONVENTION

... unable to att tend the Convention during the past two Fears, having been two and a half years in rance, and through the battle of the Somme, was warmly welcomed by all the members of the Committee. The Treasurer (Mr. Joseph K'Curry) presented the annual accounts ...

BUSHMILLS NOTES

... Under the arch there was the following inscription In loving memory of the boys who gallantly fought and fell in the battle of the Somme on Ist July, 1916. Preston's Temperance Orange Lodge Band attended. and, after the arch had been erected, played patriotic ...

KILREA AND DISTRICT NOTES

... Thorsday on forlough from hospital in Berkshire, where he bad been detained consequent on wounds re' reined in the battle of the Somme in September. He has had eighteen months' service in France, and came through some big engagements. The pupils of Lisle& ...

NEWS OF LOCAL SOLDIERS

... Volunteers, who was on a visit home to his parents at Upper Carnany, has left to rejoin his regiment. He was wounded at the battle of the Somme, receiving a shrapnel bullet through his right. hand. Private Samuel Taylor, Royal Irish Rifles. officially reported ...

TENTH BATTALION CASUALTIES

... have served with the colours since the outbreak of war, has been wounded in the hand. He was previously wounded in the battle of the Somme. He is a eon of Mr. Thomas Waddell, Blind-gate Street, Coleraine. A brother—Private Thomas Waddell, 10th Inniskillings---is ...

MARRIAGES

... Belfast. KILLED IN ACTION. Quarter-raster -Sergeant Hugh Carton was killed in action by the bursting of a shell, at the battle of the Somme, on the 15th September, 1918, aged years, a native of Kirkhills.—Deeply mourned. Now a mother's heart is aching For ...

MEMORIAL SERVICE IN DUNLUCE

... a most efficient officer, full of initist. ire, cheerfulness, courage, and daring. For his deeds of courage at the battle of the Somme he received the Military Cross: and it was in the performnce of a deed of spieldid courage that he ibet his death. He ...

THE GENERAL ELECTION,

... overseas in October, 1915. He was mentioned in despatches by Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig in connection with the Battle of the Somme, and was awarded the Military Cross in the New Year Honours of 1918, while the Ring of the Belgians conferred upon him ...

IALLYCASTLE NOTES. gallycanie is packed with visitors for the month of July ; end amongst them is the Right Rev

... calling to mind the gallant conduct of the Ulstermen in the late war, and especially their memorable charge in the battle of the Somme on Ist July, 1916. He thanked God for the glorious victory over the tyrannical Germans, and hoped that the peace which ...

LOCAL JOTTINGS

... commission in the Royal Scots, with which corps he has seen much active service. having been twice wounded—first at the battle of the Somme and latterly near Bullecourt in the recent push. Lieutenant. PiCArthur, whose father belonged to Ballyrw ney, stands ...