... placein %7 Edinburgh’s new National War Museum will be taken by what : ) A'set of bagpipes taken over the top in'the Battle of the Somme . i I).A-pipe of peace exchanged between officers of both sides on.the First World War's first Christmas Day-: o . ¢)-Aset ...

... her -only child and now she:would do the GAING e A s . He didn't. Although badly gassed.. John Guthrie survived the Battle_of the Somme and came back to live:in- Kelso. But he would not marry Bina because “he 'was forced. to marry someone_else. “Hello: ...

... Nugent had barely learned to fire his own rifle when he was cut down in a hail of bullets in the first minutes of the Battle of the Somme and, for more than 80 years, his remains lay with the 72,085 soldiers whose bodies were lost in the mud of the battlefield ...

... allegedly state-of-the-art technology failing to deliver, from the Somme to the Gulf, giving the lie to the belief that modern mechanics would make wars quicker and The battle of the Somme: one cleaner, with fewer casualities. of the greatest military blunders ...

... Cook.* (R) 1 5:00 Sophie Grigson's Feasts For A Fiver.* (R) 76425:30 Home Front.* (R) 23 6:00 Western Front.* Why the Battle of the Somme was such a disaster? (R) 823401 6:30 @.ire* 961420 7:00 Tacsi 4178 7:30 The Air Show.* (R) 72 withort them? How does ...

... the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. This year that means marching on 9 July, but the Orangemen surprised officials by applying for permission to stage another march on 2 July in commemoration of the Battle of the Somme during the First World War ...

... 1807. Since the Great War, -the church service before the walk has been in commemeoration of those who fell at the Battle of the Somme. 1t is somehow appropriate that the remembrance of such massive violence should be the precursor of a smaller, but no ...

... trench fever. The illness was brought on by a combination of lice and the unsanitary conditions at the front. - - The Battle of the Somme was at its height as Mr Daykins convalesced and was sent back to Britain to take a commission. But he was declared totally ...

... featured in the Encarta Encyclopaedia, talking about his horrific experiences during the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Loos. Mr Burns's vivid memories of battle eventually led to him writing his memoirs, Once a Cameron Highlander, which he presented ...

... the vast majority of -his ‘comrades were wiped out during the first. Battle of the Somme, which was launched by ‘British and French:forces on’l ‘July 1916. At one point in the battle he was sent back’to the ‘British lines for reinforcements; ‘when he ...

... A British soldier keeps watch as his companions sleep-during the Battle Of;gha Somme. horse-drawn’ ambulance; :and the shell fire was terific, One shell must have hit the horses’ because the wagon turned over and | was trapped in this thing while the ...

... NOW AND THEN 13 NOVEMBER ’ 1093: At the Battle of Alnwick, in invasion of England, King Malcolm lil was killed. Malcolm Canmore was the last of the Celtic Kings of Scotland and husband of St Margaret. 1718: Battle of Sheriffmuir between the Jacobite army ...