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... olverhampton and Alderman Sir Cliff Tabbits, J.P., will unveil a roll of honour of those members who gave their lives in the second world war. NEW rowing attraction at Evesham this year will be a head of the river race on Easter Monday. Crews from many oparts ...

Published: Monday 27 March 1950
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
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Lowest death rate on record

... million fewer people in the country. Compared with 1938 (which had the lowest standardised mortality of any year before the second world war) the mortality index at all ages showed a 20 per cent. decline. The birth-rate (17.8), although lower than in 1947 (20 ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
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THE BIRMINGHAM POST SATURDAY APRIL 8 1950 3 US AID WILL NOT DEPEND ON A UNITED IRELAND Gause to End

... Approach Inexpedient The Prime Minister did not help his cause materially it is thought by retorting that during the second World War he had welcomed thousands of American troops to Northern Ireland without asking them whether they were Republicans or ...

Published: Saturday 08 April 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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Nuneaton Boro's three months run without defeat

... commenced in 1919 • period of office which lasted until 1934, when Mr. A. H. T. Lewis took over until the outbreak of the second World War. - CLUBS 4 k 4 ND THE MEN BY MIDLANDERI Since then. Mr. J. A. Jimmy to everybody** Speaks has carried on the good work ...

Published: Saturday 08 April 1950
Newspaper: Sports Argus
County: Warwickshire, England
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THE BIRMINGHAM POST TUESDAY APRIL 11 1950 FIELD MARSHAL LORD WILSON OF GCB GBE DSO Years Overseas 193947 ..

... most of the Secret Services both before and during the war the one exception being British Naval Intelligence In the Second World War the author was a refugee in Britain and was suspected of being an enemy agent His treatment clearly was such as to excuse ...

Published: Tuesday 11 April 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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Flag a year as rent for a palace

... snowballs to roses and pepper. AS a contrast to this k lavish gift, no gratuifies were granted to Service chiefs after the second world war. : After the 1914-18 war the following sums were awarded: Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Beatty, £100,000; Field Marshall ...

Published: Wednesday 12 April 1950
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
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The Post City Edition SHOES &SANDALS (iC e'Ni For everyone in the family 'PHONE IMIDIand 6311 No 28601 ..

... our British citizenship and by Anglo-American agreements We are roud to have been an ally of the United States in the second World War “Through the British Government we support every step designed to strengthen the North Atlantic Treaty and to enhance ...

Published: Wednesday 12 April 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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The Post 102 YEARS City Edition Houyhtms SHIRTS Woven Poplin 187 BROAD ST BIRMINGHAM MID 6311 SERVICE &SPARES ..

... joining the Army at' the age of 17 served for four years chiefly on the Western Front in the first World War During the second World War he organised road transport in the Harborne-Quinton area under the Ministry of War Transport He was first elected MP ...

Published: Monday 17 April 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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THE BIRMINGHAM POST TUESDAY APRIL 18 1950 L FINN TIME MARCHES SIDEWAYS This absorbing fictionalizes the theory ..

... Corathiel 10s 6d Burns Oates not a formal history but a narrative of the chief exploits of the Royal Marines during the second World War The result is one of the best and most readable war histories which will be read widely for own sake as the work of a ...

Published: Tuesday 18 April 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 6473 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Silverware: we must cut our prices

... The effect of this has been to prevent the British exporter from building up his business to the level of before the second World War. WILLATT tant export items for the British silverware industry. Mr. Costigan showed me a memorandum submitted to thi ...

Published: Thursday 27 April 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 393 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LINENS - photograph from the air of Coventry taken specially for the “Birmingham Weekly by Aero Ltd In the right

... the new Civic MEMORIAL The above memorial bearing the names former pupils Grammar School who lost their lives in the second World War unveiled on Sunday and dedicated by Canon Cribb AMBULANCE COMPETITION— Dr D J Nicol (In DivLsIon in the Birmingham City ...

Published: Friday 28 April 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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BIRMINGHAM WEEKLY POST FRIDAY APRIL 28 The World Wireless Not to Broadcast STRANGE as it may seem the Third ..

... resolution Old Moseleians’ War Memorial names of 93 former pupils of Moseley Grammar School Birmingham who died during the second World War were read out by the headmaster Mr E H Robinson at an unveiling and dedication service of the Old Moseleians War Memorial ...

Published: Friday 28 April 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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