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THE OBSERVER Friday 18 January 1991 Mr H Dobson DUNKIRK veteran Mr Harry Dobson has died in Park Lee Hospital

... Friday 18 January 1991 Mr H Dobson DUNKIRK veteran Mr Harry Dobson has died in Park Lee Hospital Black-bum aged 77 Mr Dobson fought in the Second World War for six years and then became a member of the East Lancashire Dunkirk Veterans After the war he worked ...

Published: Friday 18 January 1991
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
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FUNERAL OF EX-STANLEY FOOTBALLER

... the Royal Artillery during the war and he saw action with the Chindits in Burma and was in one of the last boats to leave Dunkirk. For more than 20 years he was employed by Henry Gilbraith and Sons, Greyhound Garage. Mr Alderson, who was 59, leaves his ...

Published: Tuesday 02 September 1969
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 233 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SCRIBBLER Funeral of Mr S Moore

... family; Mr and Mrs Dewhurst and children ,(Woodacre Farm); John, Ivy. lan, June and Andrew; Geoff; Mrs Hanson and family (Dunkirk. Farm); Bessie, Alice and Teddy; Lizzie, John, Lawrence, Margaret and David; Ada and family; Elizabeth, Gertrude and Harry; ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1969
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 203 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE OBSERVER Friday 4 January 1 991 11 Diamond and golden delight Chippy meeting led to travels A TRIP to

... spent all his working life in the mills starting in Rishton but then spending many years at the former Queens Mill now the Dunkirk attack had silver lining WAR hero Michael Brady may have plenty of medals for his valour but his most treasured moment is ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1991
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1277 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

FAMOUS PEOPLE

... Marshal Earl Haig. In the First World War he was attached to the Life Guards who, in 1914, were the first troops to land at Dunkirk. They were sent out in advance of Ypres. Trooper Nicholson was taken prisoner at the 'first battle of Ypres and was a prisoner ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1969
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 445 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

THE October 10th 1986 Walfe Number Eight The Strawbury Duck This is a walk of about five miles in a

... Accrington war veteran received his Dunkirk Medal 46 years after he was evacuated from the beaches there Mr Janies Aspin of Spencer Street did not know he was entitled to one of the medals given by the Mayor and people of Dunkirk— until he read a newspaper article ...

Published: Friday 10 October 1986
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
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BUY ONE-GET ONE ACCRINGTON OBSERVER NEED GLASSES? be slghtwise Id'' I and Times FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 15th 1989 ..

... Steeh 37773 TELE-ADS 871555 jMMnMiMcicoirtfMr BLACKBURN RO ACCRINGTON Tel Dunkirk hero wins a pension at long last A World War Two veteran who survived on the beaches of Dunkirk by hiding under the bodies of his colleagues has been awarded a war pension ...

Published: Friday 15 September 1989
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
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16 THE OBSERVER Friday 7 December 1990 FATHER CHRISTMAS TRAVELS MILLIONS OF MILES ARCHWAY FOOTWEAR & HAS SOFT ..

... Mahabharat The 91 of great poem continues 30 Duryodhsne overjoyed they that intend vwt Varnavat 326— Now: of Cinderella 336— Dunkirk (See guide) 5 46 Return Of The Willie Rushton and Top Geer team travel to Spam to which ceased production 50 ago which is ...

Published: Friday 07 December 1990
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
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THE OBSERVER Friday 7 September 1990 16 KEEP OUR NUMBERS HANDY DISPLAY 1871444 'CLASSIFIED 871555 Mvertiseiatle ..

... Starring Charles Dance Lindsay Duncan Dunkirk shell -shocked captain to an Anglian village to allay of a German invasion a that haunt him for of life David Pine's play first in 1984 repeated for anniversary Dunkirk Suzanne Bertist Ian Hogg Cyril Cusack ...

Published: Friday 07 September 1990
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 993 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

THE OBSERVER Friday 25 May 1990 21 8 9 pro io Rowan Atkinson 10 12 45 Open University 55 Playdays

... reports on whether British Telecom's monopoly challenged 715— Thnewatch Special Dunkirk 1940 — Great Escape 300000 the British French rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk in mere nine days and against all the odds Timewatch brings eye-witness accounts ...

Looking backwards in Accrington and District YOUTH CENTRE IN THE PARK WAS SUGGESTED TO THE TOWN COUNCIL

... feat of art-craft. He had managed to work into the design a white piece. representing the cliffs of Dover, and mahogany for Dunkirk, while in the foreground was the Channel with the skyline overhead. Mr Nolan, a member of the Accrington Swimming Club Committee ...

io THE OBSERVER Tuesday 20 August 1991 Home help v the skinhead HOME help heroine Norma Stevenson fought off a

... health despite being in enemy hands After being evacuated from Dunkirk Gunner Robinson was sent out to the Middle East then Greece He had been reporting as missing in April Another Dunkirk evacuee had also been taken prisoner in Greece He was Gunner William ...

Published: Tuesday 20 August 1991
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
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