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SOMME HERO AS “DESERTER.” Surprise Arrest for British Officer in France. St. Malo, Thursday. After having ..

... before the authorities here Ardagh was able to call French artillery officers who testified to having met him during the battle of the Somme. He has been given leave pending the production of documents from England giving his war record with the British Army ...

Published: Friday 23 January 1931
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PUBLIC NOTICES

... PUBLIC NOTICES. BRITISH LEGION BELFAST BRANCH. ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, Ist JULY, 1932. I N conjunction Regimental anil . other Ex-Servicemen** Organisation* the City, arrangement* have been made hold a PARADE on the evening of FRIDAY, ...

Published: Monday 27 June 1932
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DONEGALL PLACE BELFAST

... the actual battlefield on the morning of Ist July in front of the Ulster Division, and Mr Alan Brown, who was at the Battle of the Somme, spoke of his experiences. Miss Geraldine Costigan sang Alexander Lee’s song, Wipe the tear from every eye,” after which ...

Published: Monday 08 November 1937
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CO. Specialists in Ladies’, Gent’s and Children’s Outfitting

... memory Ulstermen who fell in the Great War. The day is the anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme 1916, when the 36th Ulster Division lost heavily. From a point near Whitehall Lord Craigavon will lead to the Cenotaph contingent about Northern ...

Published: Friday 30 June 1939
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 135 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

BELFAST AND THE SILENCE TO THK EDITOR OF THE JfOKTHEEH WHIG

... city again this year, conceived the idea having a perunl of silence as a tribute of respect to those who fell in the battle of the .Somme in which the Ulster Division was engaged, and on the July. 1916, a silence was oliserved for five minute*, during which ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1931
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

MACES—In loving memory of our dear son. Lance• Corporal Edward Magee. killed in action Ist July. 1916. A day of

... eon. Sergeant Robert G. Megarry i15612i. 10th Batt. Royal Irish Rifles, wounded and miss ing on July 1. 1916. at the Battle of the Somme. later reported killed. Ever remembered by his loving Father. Mother. Brother,. and dieters. Lurganure. Maze. Lisburn ...

Published: Monday 01 July 1935
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 715 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

MIDNIGHT MATINEE

... of the Directors. in aid of the funds of the Lisburn branch of the British Legion. The official film will be - The Battle of the Somme. - and in addition there will be items by the Lisnagarvey Male Voice Choir. under the direction of Mr. J. N. Martin ...

Published: Friday 11 August 1939
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 160 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OPPORTUNITY MISSED

... Germany will find that she has no more sincere and BATTLE OF SOMME ANNIVERSARY REMEMBERED AT DERRY DR. PATON'S PORTRAIT UNVEILED Derry fittingly commemorated the anm versary of the Battle of the Somme. Ex-Servicemen paraded at Whitehall. the headquarters ...

Published: Friday 02 July 1937
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 535 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Foster Clark’s

... Fourteenth Anniversary of Battle of the Somme. STRIKING CITY HALL CEREMONY. MARSHAL RETAINS TRIBUTE TO THE VALOUR OF OUR MEN. In the Garden of Remembrance yesterday Belfast commemorated th* fourteenth anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. It was the first occasion ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1930
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1264 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

The Somme Anniversary

... The Somme Anniversary is good for us to be here —the simple Biblical phrase will express the feelings of Ulster people to-day when they pay homage to the memory of the men who fought and fell in the Battle of the Somme twenty years ago. It is for the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1936
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 491 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Mate to Late Very Rev. Dr. J. G. Paten. PORTRAIT UNVEILED IN DERRY

... of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, on the occasion of the commemoration in Derry of the Battle of the Somme, when his portrait was unveiled in the rooms of the Waterside Branch of the British Legion. The unveiling ceremony was ...

Published: Friday 09 July 1937
Newspaper: Witness (Belfast)
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 423 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DERRY LEGION GENEROSITY

... Lodge last night. She pointed out that she was unaware the orunge lily was worn the men of tho Ulster Division at the Battle of the Somme thut it had right to form part of the ex-sol (lien* wreath. The brethren were pleased to accept the explanation. They ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1936
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 8 | Tags: none