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EARLIER this month, we ran feature harking back to the fearsome World War 1 Battle of the Somme. It stirred

... 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. ...

Published: Friday 15 July 1983
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 41 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

10.55—Newsnlght, 11.0—The Battle of the Somme. 11.40—Weather. See highlight. 11.45—Weekend Outlook, 12 ..

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 26 June 1986
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 59 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Price of glory

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 04 April 1984
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 32 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

1.00 ON COURSE

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 24 June 1988
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 82 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

foreman

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 16 January 1987
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

AND on this day 1794 Maximilien Robespierre, leader of the French Revolution, was guillotined in Paris. IRRfi ..

... 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 ...

Published: Monday 28 July 1986
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 104 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The survivors

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 25 June 1986
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 452 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IRIS WILLIAMS

... 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 ...

Published: Monday 07 September 1981
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Former Aberdeen councillor dies ENOLISH-born former Aberdeen Town Councillor Mr Leonard Turner Mutch has died ..

... Aberdeen aged 92. Mr Galashan, 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 ...

Published: Friday 16 January 1987
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 183 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THANKS for nothing! That is the verdict of some Aberdeen pensioners on new pension increases announced last ..

... Northfield Afternoon Bowling Club who were meeting for one of their twice weekly sessions in Northfield Community Centre. Battle, of the Somme veteran Mr James Stewart the club’s oldest member at 88 said of his 80p boost: “A loaf and a rotvie that’s all I will ...

Published: Monday 27 October 1986
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

MARCH 21

... fatal clue was his wife's gold chain, missing from the body, but found in Bennett's lodgings. 1918: Start of the second Battle of the Somme. 1919: The Soviet Republic proclaimed. 1983: Police and tracker dogs scoured part of the Cairngorms In a search for ...

Published: Wednesday 21 March 1984
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 211 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

on on IS go

... Division of the dordon Highlanders during that bungled orgy of camage that history has dignified with the name of the Battle of the Somme. With the help of the diarist’s son, managed to piece together some Information about my father’s movements during the; ...

Published: Friday 09 November 1984
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 259 | Page: 7 | Tags: none