Three veterans of the 10th (The Derrys) Royal Inniskilling ‘the Battle of the Somme — Mr. James Donaghy, MBE ..

... Three veterans of the 10th (The Derrys) Royal Inniskilling ‘the Battle of the Somme — Mr. James Donaghy, MBE Fusiliers laying a wreath on the city War Memorial in The (laying wreath), with Mr. George Anderson and Mr. Harry Diamond, Londonderry, to commemorate ...

Published: Wednesday 08 July 1981
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 193 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DEVOTION

... the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. Following the service the Hamilton Band marched to The Diamond where a wreath was laid on the City War Memorial by Mr. George Anderson, one of the veterans of the Battle of the Somme. Mr. G. W. Anderson, laying ...

Published: Wednesday 04 July 1979
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HAMILTON

... HAMILTON The Hamilton Band has a long and distinguished connection with the Battle of the Somme, as they are reported to have joined, to a man, the ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1991
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 27 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

We will remember them

... wreath at the War Memorial at the Diamond on Friday evening during the parade held to mark the 72nd anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. Also in the picture are James and David Donaghey, the two remaining Old Contemptibles from the Londonderry area. 26TLS58 ...

Published: Wednesday 06 July 1988
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 60 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Attended

... Attended Last 'year a 95-year-old veteran of the Battle of the Somme, Edward Race, attended the service and laid a wreath of poppies at the memorial. For health reasons, Mr Race is not ex- B aiot SA £et e e e o presented with a tape from War Museum entitled ...

Published: Thursday 04 November 1993
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 66 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

GLORY

... neral Ricardo, who was then a Captain, with the acting rank of Lieutenant Colonel who commanded it until after the Battle of the Somme in July, 1916, in which it sustained heavy casualties but covered itse[f with glory. Outside the West Door is the tomb ...

Published: Wednesday 21 November 1979
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 78 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

OCAFLAG

... OCAFLAG On the anniversary in 1968 of the Battle of the Somme, the 10th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Old Comrades’ Association, who, accompanied by the Hamilton Band, had paraded each year tothe Cathedral for a Somme commemorative. service, laid up their ...

Published: Wednesday 04 July 1979
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 80 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

& i A £l ‘ e - i Mr Hamy Wison, of Londondery, a veteran of the Tglu_slaw.m.MmmuwW-W' Diamond

... Hamy Wison, of Londondery, a veteran of the Tglu_slaw.m.MmmuwW-W' Diamond in memory of the Derrymen who fell in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. 28 TLS 80C. t; ';“ e PRTEN b\ P e . sf S ?‘r,” .w\»'.l‘“ (e b SR NSR £ N B »\::n AT S ™5 vk‘é',;. S o A ...

Published: Wednesday 09 July 1980
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 102 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Striking memorial to black footballer

... who was signed to Northampton Town from Tottenham Hotspur in 1911, died at the age of 29 in 1918, during the second Battle of the Somme in the First World War. ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1999
Newspaper: Northampton Mercury
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

OBITUARY

... shipbuilders, joined the Army during the first world war at the age of 18 and served in the East Yorkshire Regiment. At the Battle of the Somme in 1916 he was wounded five times. He later served in Egypt, India, China and Mesopotamia. ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1990
Newspaper: Whitby Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Channel 4

... 7TDAYS. 7.30 THE PLANETS. New series about our nearest neighbours in space — the planets. 8.00 “LIONS LED BY DONKEYS. Battle of the Somme survivors give their ViEews. 9.00 UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS. 10.00 HILL STREET BLUES. 11.00 WHODARES WINS 11.45-1.00 “IT ...

Published: Thursday 07 November 1985
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 88 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Live mortar

... Live mortar handed in BOMB squad experts were called out after a live mortar bomb - a souvenir from the Battle of the Somme - was handed in to police. I “k «t was taken to Campbell Square police station in Northampton yesterday as part of the police gun ...