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! CAR—BUS CRASH GOST TWO LIVES NEAR PORTSTEWART COLERAINE VICTIMS. A motor-car and omnibus came into head-on ..

... recovered. He was married and leaves three children. Civil Defence. Visit from Fire Chiefs RRANGEMENTS are being made for the taking over of the Ballymena Fire Brigade by the National Fire Service, and this connection some of the chiefs have visited the borough ...

Published: Friday 24 July 1942
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 671 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Looker-On1 Loses a Night's Sleep

... looking earnestly across the moonlit golf course he guards, its soft green fairways just the ideal spot for an enemy parachutist to land. The shadow is my own. I am sentry duty as a member of the Home Guard for the firlttimT-helpingto patrol a Belfast golf ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1329 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Antrim Show Cancelled

... Donard. Newcastle. County Down, were totally destroyed fire, the damage being estimated roughly £2OO When the acreage was planted originally, it contained no fewer than 13.500 trees. The cause of the fire is at the moment unknown, but with the approach of ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 370 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

gallantry awards

... (Irish Guards).— Throughout the rearguard action fought in the streets of Boulogne on May 23, Lance-Corporal Burke man ned cither an anti-tank] rifle or, when it became jammed, Bren gun. He never wavered despite Heine subjected to intense enemy fire at close ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1069 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

He Was The Royal Handy

... as captain in the Rifle Brigade in the Red River The Duke campaign in Connaught. Canada, where he received his “baptism of fire. The attainment of his majority was marked Parliament voting him £15,000 a year, an amount which was increased by £10,090 ...

Published: Friday 23 January 1942
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 193 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BALLYMENA EQUALISE

... Alderman D. J. Christie. Mayor of Colera ne and chairman of the Northern Fire Authority, and Mr. G. H. Murphy, Inspector of Fire Services In Northern Ireland, afterwards inspected a guard honour formed by the 12 volunteer Ballyclare firemen under Leading Fireman ...

Published: Friday 25 March 1949
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 591 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

... Army Exhibition. 3-30 p.m.—Grand Parade of the Services. 8 p.m.—Grand Concert in Town Hall. SUNDAY, 14th May.—3-30 p.m.—Home Guard Parade and Drumhead Service in People’s Park, MONDAY, 15th May.—School Day. 11-15 a.m.—Model P.E. School Parade. 2-30 p.m. ...

Published: Friday 12 May 1944
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 210 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WASTE PAPER DRIVE

... and the public for their co-operation. BALLYMENA AND HOME DEFENCE. USEFUL LESSONS. BIG-SCALE EXERCISES. Members of the Home Guard. Special Constabulary, and Civil Defence forces in the Ballymena area took a full part in the large seal.' exercises which ...

Published: Friday 07 August 1942
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 326 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DIDN’T CAUSE HAVOC INTENDED

... walls, damaged the ceiling of the room below, and that above the staircase. The flame from the explosion did not, however, fire the petrol-soaked furniture as was obviously intended. The raiders, it is stated, declared that they belonged to the Irish ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

EXTENSIVE SALE BY PI BI.IC AUCTION OF

... (approximately miles from Ballymena, on e Ballymena- Larne Road) on TUESDAY, 22nd JULY, starting at 10 a.m., the following:— Fire Guards. Oil Lamps, 4-Gall. Boiler, Boxes. Mangles, Tables Spades. Saucers Knives, Forks, and a large quantity of Delpb; Shovels ...

Published: Friday 18 July 1947
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

aph. Mrs. Randolph Churchill, daughter-in-law of the British Premier, has lent her home, Eichellord House, in ..

... the grounds of Eichelford House. THE PHANTOM MAJOR MORE is now told of the ! exploits of Major David Stirling, of the Scots Guards, , who has become known throughout the Eighth Army in Egypt as The Phantom Major. Gordon Gaskill in the •'American Magazine ...

Published: Friday 09 October 1942
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 320 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

‘SUUTE THE SOIDIER’ WEEK

... House. Entire proceeds lor ” Salnte the Soldier Week. SATURDAY, 20th MAY 3. p.m., Football Match, Home Guard v. Randalstowo. pyin.. Victory Parade Home Guard Pipe Band. 9 p.m.. Victory Dance Orange Mall. WHAT YOU CAN INVEST IN. per cent. Savings Ronds. Savings ...

Published: Friday 12 May 1944
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 248 | Page: 1 | Tags: none