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Last respects . . . a Christmas love story At the end of a year which marked the 70th anniversary of the Battle ..

... Last respects . . . a Christmas love story At the end of a year which marked the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, PETER RHODES tells a Christmas story of his great-uncle who fought in the conflict It was a wonderful meal. Roast goose with ...

Published: Wednesday 24 December 1986
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 359 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

He died with Somme old comrades

... He died with Somme old comrades Mr. W. J. Lammin, of Neasden (Middlesex), aged 70, collapsed and died after marching with his old comrades of the 1914—18 war to the Cenotaph yesterday to commemorate the battle of the Somme. ...

Published: Monday 19 March 1962
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 39 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

SOMME VETERANS

... SOMME VETERANS When the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visit Northern Ireland on July 4 they will review 1,500 veterans of the battle of the Somme. The men—mainly from the former 36th Ulster Dlvision—; parade on the Balmoral showgrounds, Belfast. \ ...

Published: Wednesday 25 May 1966
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 42 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

War veteran dies at 87

... War veteran dies at 87 A first world war veteran who fought at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 has died at New Cross Hospital, aged 87. Mr Frederigr Warrilow, of 43 Fieldhead Place, 'l‘etten-} hall Wood, served with the South Staffs regiment during’ the ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1979
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 58 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Film hired for war course

... Film hired for war course A film of the 1916 Battle of the Somme has been hired from the Imperial War Museum for a new course on The Great War, at Halesowen College of Further Education. The ten-week course, which beings in October, deals with the ori’inl ...

Published: Friday 31 August 1979
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

& Now he's been dead 50 years By Tony Raba A Wolverham‘aton man Is going to his local today, to

... 1916, at the battle of the Somme that Mr. George Stone, now living at 11 Greenwood-road, Oxley, was “killed” in action while his regiment, the Ist Battalion of the Rifle Brigade. were trying to take the village of Beaumont Hammel, on the Somme, said the ...

Published: Friday 01 July 1966
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 286 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

VYeteran George tells how he died

... how he died War veteran George Stone is celebrating the anniversary of his death today. He was reported killed at the Battle of the Somme 60 years ago . . . and even has a death certificate to prove it. “So many people were killed that there was bound to ...

Published: Wednesday 30 June 1976
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 75 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Still blood on ground

... impersonal service round the Cenotaph. I we stopped and thought for a while, maybe it would not become a farce. The Battle of the Somme means that many gave their lives for a dream of peace and a better world to live in. Yet there is Vietnam, and Biafra—still ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1968
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Putting battle in focus..

... Putting battle in focus Veterans who fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 are to be invited to relive the campaign., at Halesowen, in an &0-munute silent film. A ten weeks course on The Great War. by sociology lecwrer Mr Mick Grant has been abandoned ...

Published: Wednesday 26 September 1979
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LAST NIGHT

... hell of an enjoyable business. As a Glasgow soldier and a Prussian private who decide that fighting for real in the Battle of the Somme is strictly for the birds, they provided the funniest half hour on television this week. | No doubt there will be those ...

Published: Thursday 31 August 1972
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Couple

... aged 72, of Parkfield Road, Wolverhampton, were . married at Ettingshall Church, ' Mr. Onions, who fought in ‘the battle of the Somme, is a retired foundry worker. Mrs. Onions worked on munitions before her marriage. The couple, who have two children ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1973
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 9 | Tags: none