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... Glasgow. There he laboured for 20 years. Volunteering for World War Number One, he fought with the Eoyal Scots in the battle of the Somme, at Ypres, San Quentin, and Belgium, and was twice wounded. In 1930 he decided to test his fortune in America, and soon ...

Published: Friday 01 May 1942
Newspaper: Motherwell Times
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 590 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NORTH LANARK CANDIDATE'S APPOINTMENT

... commenced work in Netherton Colliery, Harthill. He was four years in the army during the last war and was wounded at the Battle of the Somme where held the rank of corporal. In 1918 ho began to study mining at evening classes and correspondence classes. Later ...

Published: Friday 10 July 1942
Newspaper: Motherwell Times
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 688 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LOST FOR LOVE

... attractive-looking woman in the early twenties, was bereft of husband by the war. lie fell, like many good lads, in the battle of the Somme in 1916. And she was left with the charge of two children —this young woman who waa little more than a child herself ...

Published: Friday 21 May 1920
Newspaper: Motherwell Times
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 591 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Tunes of Proud Ancestry

... It was played by the Gordons at Waterloo and by the Camerons at Quatre Bras, and it was again by the Gordons at the battle of the Somme. • HOW AMERICA COMBATS THE HEAT. Ice-Cream Morning, Noon and Night. Sir John Foster Fraser, who is on a lecture mission ...

Published: Friday 13 August 1920
Newspaper: Motherwell Times
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 686 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION

... Murray, K.O.S.B., wounded at Loos, who died at Stobhill Hospital on November 24th, 1916, from wounds received in the Battle of the Somme. His country called, he answered. —Hugh Robertson, B.E.F. -MURRAY.—In loving memory of our dear son, Pte. George ...

Published: Friday 23 November 1917
Newspaper: Motherwell Times
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2500 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... Three year* ago this month, Sergt. Alexander Paterson, HigUlauders, young Hylvtuwn soldier, was posted missing after a battle on the Somme. In a communication his mother, who resides at Main Street, the Record Office. Perth, now states that “the body Sergt ...

Published: Friday 29 July 1921
Newspaper: Motherwell Times
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 774 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

—:o:

... A very little of some {very little) things goes long way occasionally. :o: I wonder if there’s any chance of the “Battle of the Somme” films being shown in Motherwell? If they are, there’s sure to be bumper houses, as wherever they go it’s case of “Full ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1916
Newspaper: Motherwell Times
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 793 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CHURCH

... the Bible should contain an almost exact description of the Tank which made such . sensation its appearance at the battle of the Somme. In the book of Job we read, “His bones are like bars of iron . . . his nose pierceth through snares . . . (be esteemeth ...

Published: Friday 26 January 1917
Newspaper: Motherwell Times
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1333 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

EMBER 29, 1916 As there are probably thousands in Motherwell Who never read the “Glasgow Herald” —to their ..

... altogether a very hearty and encouraging send-off.” The big cities having revelled in the realistic scenes of the “Battle of the Somme” film for quite a lone time now, little Motherwell’s turn see the great picture is about come at last. It will be screened ...

Published: Friday 29 September 1916
Newspaper: Motherwell Times
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1393 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

hANGKfj OF THE DANCE;

... Brigade, and thus had the Honour of being one of the very first Territorial units to enter the line. In 1916 at the Battle of the Somme, the Ist Battalion formed the front line of the 19th Brigade the terrific fighting Bazentin late in July. lo this m ...

Published: Friday 11 March 1921
Newspaper: Motherwell Times
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1299 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

RETIRES YEARS

... heroes like Michael O’Leary, V.C., and Pat Finnachy, V.C., not to mention the Irish regiments wiped out In the Battle of, the Somme and the Battle Britain. Sir, —It appears that the closing of the Carfin Roads were not Native Heath’s worry. He just used ...

Published: Friday 04 November 1955
Newspaper: Motherwell Times
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1428 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SAVING LIVES IN WAR

... half pints blood instead the single pint which was the ordinarily accepted amount during the war 1914 to 1918. , The battle of the Somme caused 30,000 casualties on the first day. these approximately 3,000 call for the forward provision of /,500 pints of ...

Published: Friday 25 April 1941
Newspaper: Motherwell Times
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1778 | Page: 4 | Tags: none