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HITLER'S DREAM ESCAPE .

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 03 February 1972
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 73 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

By PATRICIA SMYLLIE

... bought by Briton Richard Dunning, 34. He collects World War I items—and the hole was bleated by German troops during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, killing many British soldiers. ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1978
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 87 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BATTLING BLIND PEER IS DEAD

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1974
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 117 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WOE GOING CRACKERS?

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 03 March 1964
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 128 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

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... 10.20 MY KIND OF MOVIE Dilys Powell on On The Town which- can be seen tomorrow night. 10.25 THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME : Story of one of the greatest battles of the First World'-War (2). 11.40 NEWS. 11.55-12.5 Closedown: Reading. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1978
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 171 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

SLAUGHTE.'

... will be able to go over the top with a walk- IT HAPPENED sixty years ago this morning, July I—the first day of the Battle of the Somme. There were around 57,000 casualties that summer day 21,392 men were killed, most of them in the first three hours. ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1976
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 238 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

TODAY

... time ago, I joined the Artillery at Woolwich, went to the Dardanelles then on to France where I was blown up in the Battle of the Somme July 1916, receiving eighteen wounds. When I was discharged with said wounds, my discharge papers stated I jomed up ...

Published: Monday 30 October 1978
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 470 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

Enjoy a low level cuppa

... That is, that small • • piece of land where so many died sixty • • years ago at the Battle of the Somme. • • I would like all old soldiers who were in that • • battle to write to me, giving details of experi - • • ences, drawings of the landscape, trench ...

Published: Thursday 21 April 1977
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 662 | Page: 24 | Tags: none