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... cast gather for The Big Picnic (BBC 2 Bill Bryden's epic stage play (shown to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme), set in Govan, Glasgow, at the outbreak of the First World War. It features Aberdeen's Gary Bakewell (recently seen ...
... Darwin presented his theory on evolution and natural selection to the Linnean Society in London. 1916 First day of the battle of the Somme in World War 1 in less than 24 hours there were 60.000 British casualties. 1929 The cartoon character Popeye the Sailor ...
... IRISH MEMORIAL ON SOMME. Amiens, Monday. The monument erected by Irishmen in memory of the Irish volunteers who fell in the battle of the Somme 1916 was inaugurated at Guillemont to-day. Marshal Joffre presided, and was accompanied by several high British ...
... of Mexico,” as his subject and industrial relations officer, David Stevenson (29), from Stirlingshire, goes for “The Battle of the Somme. ...
... B. Orr. Captain J. B. Orr, R.A.M.C., who has just been awarded the Military Cross for “conspicuous bravery at the battle of the Somme,” joined the staff of the Aberdeen and North of Scotland Agricultural College not long befero outbreak of war for research ...
... r Cottage, who was on his -motor cycle. A leg that was severely injured during his service with the Gordons at the Battle of the Somme was ag-ain badly hurt, and also a hand. ...
... Sportstown. 7.2o—The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. B.lo—Angels. 9.o —News and Weather. 9.25 The Good Life. 9.55 The Battle of the Somme. IXs—Tenight. 11.40 Scottish Noun and Weather. ...
... the torpedoed evacuee ship, had been Unionist M.P. for the Wrekin Division of Shropshire since 1931. He fought in the Battle of the Somme and served the staff of the 3rd and 4th Armies in the Great War and attained the rank of major. At the last election ...
... born in Cambrai, France. He was the first person to come to Britain without arriving by sea. 1916 First day of the battle of the Somme in World War 1. In less than 24 hours there were 60,000 British casualties. 1969 Prince Charles was invested as Prince ...
... Regiment, when over half the officers and men of the l/4th Battalion were wiped out in their tragic attack in the Battle of the Somme, the Princess Royal on Saturday unveiled a memorial at Halifax Drill Hall to the dead of the First and Second Fourth ...
... employment of T. Davidson, fish salesman. younger brother. Private Edwin Ritchie, Gordon Highlanders, killed at the battle of the Somme. ...
... in the PRESS & JOURNAL on MONDAY, 13th JANUARY Share their discomforts in ice-bound fields and roads— In the great battle of the Somme see them with great audacity and bravery blow up bridges, lay mines and construct fortifications—These boys from your ...