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MAJOR POWELL

... became a major at 28. He was promoted in the field and awarded the 0.8.0 for two specific acts of gallantry at the Battle of the Somme. Five time he was mentioned in dispatches. Councillor Powell Is also Vice- Chairman of the Passenger Transport Committee ...

Published: Friday 21 November 1952
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Somme Wound Veteran Charged With Assault A veteran of the First World War, said to have recWved 16 wounds in

... Somme Wound Veteran Charged With Assault A veteran of the First World War, said to have recWved 16 wounds in the Battle of the Somme, was charged at Coventry Magistrates Court to-day with assault. He was James Muddiman (Si). no fixed address, and it was ...

Published: Monday 05 July 1954
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 239 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TONS OF GARDEN

... passers-by in Allesley. This patience corner was the work of a veteran of the First World War who was badly gassed in the battle of the Somme. He died last April but his sons have been platting the finishing touches to his dream. It was in 1945 that Mr. Joseph ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1953
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 278 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Tow Line Parts

... immediately rejoined ~ the Royal --- 00relson Artillery as a sergeant. He served in Prance and was wounded in the battle of the Somme. Later he served in Palestine. On his retirement, Mr. L. E. Martin, shipwright, Minerva, was presented with a clock ...

Published: Thursday 02 April 1953
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 253 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

PENSIONERS WANT HERNE BAY AGAIN

... he joined Kitchener's Army and served in France with the 15th Bn. The Hampshire Regt. He was invalided out after the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Mrs. Emery is the second daughter of the late Mr. William Beech, who was a well-known pork butcher. of Highbury ...

Published: Friday 27 July 1956
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 395 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

YOUTHS TOOK CARS FOR SMASH A WARWICKSHIRE MAN'S DIARY

... mere list ' tot names Gommecourt, La Boisselle, the Leipzig Redoubt, Sormont Farm, Pncourt, Caterpillar Wood—the First Battle of the Somme had started. Members of the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Association who gathered in Coventry from various parts ...

Published: Tuesday 04 July 1950
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 815 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

I ALDERMAN'S GREEN BAZAAR The Guards Have An Association in U.S. WHEN the Queen Mother arrived at New York's ..

... Coldstream flash on his uniform. The doorman of the Biltmore Hotel. 58 years old Dan McKechnie, who was wounded in the Battle of the Somme, was spotted by Brigadier Treadwell. who inquired: Are you an American? The 6ft. lin. ex-Scots Guardsman, drawing himself ...

Published: Monday 29 November 1954
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 777 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

BEDWORTH WIFE ACCUSED OF

... Blackpool, a Painter and signwriter in the painting shop. who told her how his arm was shattered by a shell in the first Battle of the Somme in 1917. ACROSS BAY At Fleetwood the Princess embarked in the Fisheries Protection vessel Coquette to salt across Morecambe ...

Published: Monday 05 July 1954
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 883 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

RETURN SAME DAY SY ANY TRAIN WEDDING OF MISS JACQUETTA STOREY

... blossom. and she carried an ivory prayer book with a spray of orchids on it. VETERANS OF THREE WARS Veterans of the 191$ Battle of the Somme. the 193945 War. and of the Jungles of Malaya. gathered at Winchester on Saturday for the 42nd reunion and annual meeting ...

Published: Friday 19 October 1956
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 851 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

FOR SMASH

... mere list of names Gommecourt, La Bolsselle, the Leipzig Redoubt, Sormont Farm. Fricourt, Caterpillar Wood—the First Battle of the Somme had started. Members of the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Association who gathered in Coventry from various parts ...

Published: Tuesday 04 July 1950
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1006 | Page: 9 | Tags: none