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... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME Sir,—ln the First Great War the city's own Territorial battalion was the 1/sth (E of C) Btn. The Cheshire Regiment. In Mar tin Middlebrook's recently published exciting and admirable book, The First Day on the Somme. there is ...
... was the third battle of the Somme. ...
... o ITS ironic that Arthur Scargill chose the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme to tell the miners to get ready to come out on strike again. 0 On the Somme, men were sent forward time and again against impossible odds and regardless of losses. The ...
... set in the front line in the 48 hours that lead up to the Battle of the Somme. The film is viewed through the eyes of a 17- year-old coming to terms with the experience of waiting to go over the top. Ratcatcher (15) Jan 12 to Jan 15 Focussing on James ...
... Flashback to the First World War George shortly before the second Battle of the Somme, in which he lost an arm. 1 404.4 1 VP* e Mr. Griffiths 4 .; > 1141/*..1 ...
... soldiers who were massacred on the Somme 75 years ago yesterday News that Blackburn Council and Lancashire County Council have donated £1500 between them came on the actual anniversary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme when 57000 British soldiers were ...
... ALAN DAVIDGE of Stock-port College commemorates the 75th anniversary next Monday of Battle of the Somme costliest error in military his- This of one man’s part in the battle la compiled by historian Alan from a of interviews with Harry Hall who lived nearly ...
... received 57 years after he tool part in the battle of the Somme. Mr. Harry Oakley, %kho will be 79 next Monday, is one of the handful of survivors in Chester of the grim First World War Little of the Somme. Private Oakley, as he was in the summer of 1916 ...
... Honour Deaths Acknowledgements In Memoriam CAMPBELL (Pte WILLIAM) (Lancashire Fusiliers) Battle of the Somme July 1 1916 Somewhere in a foreign field Remembrance from Daughter Elsie (TOM) 20th Manchester Regt was always remembered by his pal John Burrows ...
... A mine that was detonated too soon —ten minutes before the start of the Battle of the Somme. Three sections of the German 117th Reserve Regiment are dving in the debris. driving offensive tunnels. Some days later he was listening in one of the deep shafts ...
... A battery of I-Inch howitzers In action In Ant Battle of the Somme whisk. Clem Harrison reminds us In F Mks and Thin. They ope nod 44 years ago been in and out of hospitals. She had four years at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, among other ...
... Battlefields visit ‘The Battle of the Somme — 70 years on’ was the topic of a talk at a Chorley Probus Club meeting. Mr P. Johnson, headmaster of Queen Elizabeth’'s School, Blackburn, described his visit to the battlefields of the Great War of 1914-18 ...