... council of 2.62 acres of land in Meredith Street, Cradley Heath,for municipal housing. . Reported killed in action on the Battle of the Somme in the First World War, George Stone of Greenwood Road, Oxley, gvzolverham_pton lived to tell the tale. George (seated) ...

... the squalor and turmoll of a French bat. tlefield. At home, Albert Lewis' family were informed of his death in the Battle of the Somme ~ ‘killed in action’ are the words on his death certificate, Now a lively 80-year-old, Mr Lewis who lives with his wife ...

... its power and relevance -A worthy and i o S e moving battle in our history,” was one critic’s view ~On the first day of the Somme 20000 British and Empire troops died A further Battle of the Somme. 40,000 were wounded. It was in our mulitary b fought ...

... Saturday TV Films There was more going on in 1916 than the Battle of the Somme. They were having a spot of bother in Mexico, with bandits and gunrunners. Hollywood caught up with it in 1956 in Bandido (BBC lf 7.0, colour), but this isn't history. It's ...

... Horn, 2/7 Royal Warwickshire Regiment, whose parents reside at 17, Bell Green, was wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of the Somme, on July 19th, 1916, and he has just sent home the accompanying picture. He spent his 918 t birthday in Germany last ...

... highlights of the fourth day's play. 11.0 THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. A showing of the BBC’'s acclaimed documentary which was made to mark the 60th anniversary of the Somme in 1976. It chronicles the worst battle in British military history. On the first day ...

... Railways. He served with “E Company, Tth Royal Warwicks, in the first world war, and was severely wounded at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He resumed work with British Railways after the war but, due to his injuries, could not continue. In 1919 he ...

... started writing for television. She was a guest script-writer for the last series of Upstairs Downstairg — she did the Battle of the Somme episode — and this autumn has two 50-minute plays coming up on TV. A book of her collected short stories is just about ...

... 27th. Pte. Macnamara enlisted in September, 1914, and went to France early in 1915. He was wounded, in June, in the battle of the Somme, by a machine-gun bullet through the left thigh, _ ) and sent back to England. . Upon his recovery, he again went to ...

... the German Kaiser in the Battle of the Somme. At the foot of the awesome Tiepval Memorial in Northern France they sat, a small fimp of 70 frail men — some carried to their places in chairs, others leaning heavily on walking sticks — almost lost in the su ...

... imagery of Shiva, Hindu god of creation, preservation and destruction. 10.0 “LIONS LED BY DONKEYS”, Aged survivors of the Battle of the Somme recall the horrors of going over the top on July 1 1916, the day of greatest disaster in the history of the British ...

... and, last week, in deepest EEC-land. I was over in France, Belgium and Germany, covering the 70th anniversary of ti;e Battle of the Somme. By unhappy coincidence, {ust about every farmer in France, Belgium and Gerlmm{ decided to get the harvest in during ...