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... EARLIER this month, we ran feature harking back to the fearsome World War 1 Battle of the Somme. It stirred memories for 77- year-old Mrs Jessie Dnncan (left). Forest Road, Aberdeen, who has this eerie tale to tell from her childhood. ...
... Ads. Phone Aberdeen 691212 grandfather was a medical orderly at the Battle of the Somme where 60,000 German. French and British soldiers were butchered in the first few hours of battle. And all the way through his life be maintained a stem silence about ...
... 10.55—Newsnlght, .0—The Battle of the Somme. 11.40—Weather. See highlight. 11.45—Weekend Outlook, 12.10—Weather. 11.50—Open Univeraity. 12.15—Cloae. 12.20—Cloae. RADIO 1 (275 m, 285 mi 1089kHx. 1053 kHz) 5.30 Adrian John 7 0 Mike Smith 9.30 Simon Bates ...
... Price of glory A GROUP OF 25 medals awarded to Oen. Lord Raw- Unson of Trent - the architect of the Battle of the Somme In 1916 made £19.000 at Christie's /esterday ...
... 7.00 NEWS SUMMARY 7.0 S 7 DAYS On the eve of Remembrance Sun* day, Walter Fenton (91), recalls the Battle of the Somme; and writer Mary Kelly discusses her hew book, Abortion: The Full Story. 7M STRANGERS ABROAD Bruce Dakowski retraces the steps of the ...
... 1.00 ON COURSE 2.00 THK PARLIAMENT PROGRAMME 2.30 UONS LEO BY DONKEYS This repeated documentary about the Battle of the Somme looks at the experiences of some of the few remaining survivors who went over the lop on July 1,1916. 3.30 TIME TO REMEMBER The ...
... of Mexico,” as his subject and industrial relations officer, David Stevenson (29), from Stirlingshire, goes for “The Battle of the Somme. ...
... Aberdeen aged 92. Mr Oalashan. Craigton Terrace, Culter. was a corporal In the 7th Gordon Highlanders. He survived the Battle of the Somme and was wounded at High Wood. He was 45 years with the former Culter Paper Mills, latterly as foreman papermaker. A ...
... of the championships while Gerald Williams collates the stories making today's news. 11.00 THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME The first day of the Battle of the Somme was the worst in British military history In less than 24 hours 60,000 British soldiers became ...
... were first used in action on September 15.1916, in France when 50 preceded infantry into German trenches in the first Battle of the Somme In 1939, the Royal Tank Corps became part of the Royal Armoured Corps, BIRTHDAYS: Jacqueline Onassis, widow of President ...
... 1916, and to survive the greatest disaster in the history of the British Army? To mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, the documentary, Lions Led by Donkeys ”, talks to some of the few remaining survivors, who tell their remarkable stories ...
... Leitch. begins a nightly series of play repeats with the theme of war. Rifleman” is set in Northern Ireland after the Battle of the Somme. The arrival of Private Semple at his Ulster village home is the cause of rejoicing and sadness in the community, for ...