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... 1991 Britain’s fastest-growing regional daily newspaper Price 24p TOYOTA DRUG TESTS STORM SOLDIER’S LAST BATTLE Somme veteran Bill Proctor Somme veteran’s plea for Regiment THE OLDEST living veteran of the Cheshire Regiment sobbed with emotion yesterday ...
... Loving home awaits hero’s bear after 77 years on shelf HE IS only tiny bear just inches tall but he survived the bloody Battle of the Somme to become the treasured reminder of heroic officer Edwin Bear childhood favourite of Percy Kynnersley-Baddeley a young ...
... casualties suffered the British on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme stand comparison not with battles but with complete wars The British Army’s loss on that one easily exceeds battle casualties in the Crimean War the Boer War the Korean combined ...
... Ready for battle a fighter pilot in flying boots and Mae West with his helmet in his hand stands on the spinner of an airscrew Behind him are stretched long lines of sheds at the Derby factory which made the aircraft engines with which the Battle of Britain ...
... around freely His dream was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War when he enlisted in the Army At the Battle of the Somme a small piece of shrapnel was embedded in his spine and fut an end to his career and almost his life or a time he was ...
... 75th anniversary of the fall of Black Chair poet Hedd Wyn on Pilkem Ridge on July 31 1917 the first day of the Third Battle of the Somme The plaque will be at the village of Pilkem - on the wall of a Cafe Hagebos -near where he fell His grave is at Artillery ...
... a temporary commission as 2nd Lieutenant with the 21st Battalion of the King’s (Liverpool) Regiment fighting in the Battle of the Somme where he was wounded He then joined two of his five brothers Bill and Arthur in the Tank’’ Corps in April 1917 After ...
... which has just been published at £1 Miss M Chambers of Rhyl died last year nearly 70 years after her fiance fell in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 Her two poems are moving in their simplicity: “This love can never die it springs from out eternity which knows ...
... German observers at the front had noticed the increased activity the Somme as the British there prepared for the battle When Rawlinson’s bombardment opened on June 24 the Germans the Somme could even more certain that they about to be attacked The intense ...
... sixteen-mile front along the River Somme— had stopped firing In the trenches young officers glanced at their watches Zero hour Whistles blew Thousands of men went over the top The first day of the Battle of the Somme the bloodiest day in the history of ...
... grenade in a shipment of potatoes -for the second time in 10 days The hot potato dating back like its predecessor to the Battle of the Somme was spotted before it entered the manufacturing process It was then blown up by Army bomb disposal experts The first ...
... awarded the French equivalent of the Military Medal at the Battle of the Somme But he never received it because he was reported dead After checking the records of those who fought on the Somme an old soldiers’ association in France discovered the name ...