... Trent, will receive between £250 and £350 from the Ministry of Pensions as a back-dated payment. I lost an arm in the Battle of the Somme in 1918, Mr. Shepherd said yesterday. The sixty per cent. disability pension for this type of injury was increased ...

... in saying If we can't have stag- - that more men were gered holidays, at least killed in the first Battle of the kids should be able to the Somme, from July 1 to enjoy the best and longest November 20, 1916, than days of summer—as they do on the Continent ...

... it's a tale The Somme agony EVERY July, the In Memoriam notices appear in newspapers for soldiers who died in a battle nearly forty-five years ago. It was the Battle of the Somme, 1916 the graveyard of British manhood. Author John Harris was fascinated ...

... recent strike involved men who were not starving but earning £2O-230 a week! My generation of Beatles went through the Battle of the Somme and Passchendaele on 3s. a day. To have seen their sweat and sacrifice and then to look around today staggers me. Let's ...

... the Government — whi c h has invited Mr. Ryder and eleven other V C winners to attend the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of the Somme—says that funds will not allow relatives to go on the trip accused of killing wife MACE Sergeant Kenneth Hepplewhite ...

... of my fight. now plead conscientious objection to service in the school Cadet Corps. Since 1916 (at the time of the Battle of the Somme, inciden tally) cadet service has been compulsory. Parents who objected could expect to look for another school for ...

... Lulu is on B B C-1 at 4.55 9.0). They had to reconstruct the Battle of the Somme ! Digging Ten days were spent scooping out shellholes and digging trenches with bulldozers. The 1 o c ation was a deserted coalmine near Wigan, in Lancashire. Several thousand ...

... impression of one of the bloodiest episodes in history, against a montage of death, cynicism, vaudeville and hilarity. The Battle of the Somme started on a warm sunny day in July, 1916, and ended on November 18 after 498,055 British casualties —of whom 108,720 ...

... 1914. Against the background of fairground ribaldry and What the Butler Saw, doom saunters in on a cheerful jape. The Battle of the Somme is only a giggle away from I say . . • I say . . . I say. The dialogue, by Len Deighton, keeps strictly to the written ...

... HITLER'S DREAM ESCAPE .. AWEARY soldier scrambled in terror from a trench during the Battle of the Somme. He had been shaken out of a doze by a dream that he was being buried alive. London. She had a nightmare in which she ryaw the fiats collapsing. Flats ...

... blinded by a sniper at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. But he went on, despite his handicap, to become the leader of the St. Dunstan's organisation for the blind for over fifty years. He also built up a series of business interests in insurance and publishing ...

... The Thing in the Cellar. Starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal. Tarn decides to build a generator (R). 9,55 THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME: Special 60th anniversary programme. Leo McKern tells the story with letters, dairies and memories of men who took part ...