LAST PILGRIMAGE
... First World War veterans will make their last official pilgrimage this week to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. ...
... First World War veterans will make their last official pilgrimage this week to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. ...
... will take part in a Canada Day memorial service at Shomcliffe military cemetery, M.'l‘hedmmldu with the start of the Battle of the Somme in 1916. ...
... Somme ceremony Schoolchildren were leading a procession to mark the 82nd anniversary of the start of the First World War’s Battle of the Somme today. After walking down Horseguards Parade and Whitehall, the children will each lay a sprig of living laurel ...
... THEM SEVENTY British First World War veterans are to return to France on June 28.t0 mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. Meanwhile, organisers of a remembrance service in Holland are seeking widows of British dead buried in the war cemetery ...
... their heads. The guests are not amused. LIONS LED BY DONKEYS (Channel 4, 10.00) To mark the 70th anniversary of The Battle of the Somme, Channel 4 repeats this fascinating documentary which includes remarkable stories of some of the survivors, now in their ...
... Proud old guard honour fallen PROUD old soldiers were gathering today to honour thousands who fell in the Battle -of the Somme 70 years ago. Immaculately dressed with medals highly polished, a group T e cream of British youth who took on the might of ...
... rest on the mountains of Ararat after 150 days of consecutive rain. Noah was then said to be aged 600. 1916 The first battle of the Somme ended. 1928 The first Mickey Mouse cartoon, Steamboat Willie, was shown. 1987 The worst fire in the history of the London ...
... abolished. 1910: The Union of South Happy birthday to: Princess Africa is formed. Diana, 36; Trevor Eve, actor 1916: The Battle of the Somme who played Eddie Shoestring, ~starts. : Y -~ -46; Kenneth Clarke, former 1939: The first conscripts in g;rancdior of ...
... gr%unds of Pitchford e Easter Rising in Dublin is suppressed. N.mm Hall, Shropshire, is a : ) nlture version i 0 The Battle of the Somme involves the first use of tanks. 16th century hall. The tree RN house on stilts is believed Conscription is introduced ...
... Manfred von &oa:lndpig;'?-lda'fry%g:t: Richthofen, was shot down and killed during the second (1894-1926) success- battle of the Somme. fully defended his title Lenin’s Russia appears to be on the point of disintegration seven times while with the stage ...
... Manfred von The Queen is informed Richthofen, is shot from the skies and killed during the before I'm announced. . second Battle of the Somme. zzfyp,::;‘vuas ;othth& All work is suspended in Ireland as a protest against North America consumes ] conscription ...
... RETURN FARE. 3 By David Pownall. 10.20 MY KIND OF MOVIE. - Dilys Powell on On The Town. 10.25 THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The story of one of the greatest battles of the First World War. 11.40 LATE NEWS. Weather. g . 11.55 CLOSEDOWN. Reading.. ...