ON THIS DAY LRI (4
... ON THIS DAY LRI (4 1916: The first battle of the Somme ended. 1928: The first Mickey Mouse cartoon was shown. 1991: Beirut hostage Terry Waite and American Thomas Sutherland were released. ...
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Slaughter remembered
... Slaughter remembered SOMME CEREMONY French Veterans Minister Pierre Pasquini (left) in the company of the Duke of Gloucester lays a wreath during yesterday’s ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the battle of the Somme. The battle was one of the bloodiest ...
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... number of road accidents showed that they cannot see where they are going. LD soldier Henry Priest, who survived the Battle of the Somme, a killer flu epidemic and a car crash in 1978, has celebrated his 100th birthday at his home in Bishopston, Devon. ...
Chiefs at Wagoner’s funeral
... of Sledmere House. Mr Thompson was one of the first to enlist. Mr Thompson narrowly escaped death during the second battle of the Somme in 1918 when a German bullet lodged in the cylinder of his gas mask. ...
Great War veteran dies
... Great War veteran dies A FIRST World War veteran from Newby who fought in the Battle of the Somme has died at the age of 97. George Cockerill, of the Edelweiss Rest Home, was born into an Ebberston farming family but grew up on a farm in Scalby. He joined ...
ON THIS DAY
... killed 6,000 people in Odessa during a general strike 1916: More than 100,000 troops were killed in the first day of the Battle of the Somme 1928: The first colour TV transmission was demonstrated in London. 1954: War rationing finally ended in Britain 1962: ...
5.00 Alice 5.30 How Wives Sell Their Husbands: Animated comedy from Russia. 6.00 Family Ties 6.30 Dreams are ..
... of Shiva: A fim translation of Indian classical dance. > 10.00 “Lions Led by Donkeys: The 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. 11.00 Film. A Midsummer Night's Dream: Lindsay Kemp in a colourful film adaptation of his stage production of Shak ...
Former Wolds Wagoner dies
... medal for his bravery. He served at the Battle of the Somme with the Wagoners, a volunteer corps of farmhands from the Scarborough and Yorkshire Wolds area which played a key part in the First World War battles. He later served in the Army in Northern ...
‘There were s 0 many dead the living just couldn’t cope with burying them ail’
... harrowing images that remain with Mr Davey from those years is that of thousands of bodies piled haphazardly during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. “There were so many dead that the living just couldn’t cope with burying them all,” he said. Mr Davey joined ...
Farewell to the last Wagoner
... recruited from North Yorkshire villages during the First World War to provide vital transport links. He fought at the Battle of the Somme and was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field while working as a stretcher bearer with the Middlesex Regiment ...
trenches through the diaries, papers and memories of 2234 Private James Richard Stevenson MM
... We marched into Picardy — to the area where the great offensive was in full swing — and prepared for our part in the Battle of the Somme. 15 September The first day we used our new weapon, the tank, I was acting as a runner between Battalion and Brigade ...
Looking for branches of family tree
... that he had four sisters.” The family knew he had a brother called Fred who was killed in 1916 on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. His name is mentioned on the memorial at Wykeham Church. ...