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... Drome Valley into the foothills of the Alps 7.00 7 Days 7.30 The Planets See highlights 8.00 Lions Led By Donkeys The Battle of the Somme 9.00 Upstairs, Downstairs 10.00 Hill Street Blues Furillo tries to recover from his recent break-up with Joyce by c ...

Published: Friday 08 November 1985
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 101 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

LIFE BRIGADE

... Battalion was formed in Glasgow wholly from members and ex-members — only to be decimated on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The ‘military’ ghost was finally laid to rest in 1926 when the BB amalgamated with the Boys' Life Brigade and abandoned ...

Published: Friday 01 July 1983
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

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... further chronicle of the Crowther and Pillings families. Harris, J. Covenant with Death —fictional treatment of the Battle of the Somme. Holt, V. Mistress of Mellyn—a young_Victorian governess and the mysteries surrounding a large and forbidding Cornish ...

Published: Saturday 20 May 1961
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 178 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Music In The Parks

... Reel — Baumont Hamel: Dornie Ferrie: Rejected Suitor. 3/4 Marches—Green Hills; 1 See Mull; Battle is o’er. 9/3 Marches—Hills of Darrgii; Battle of the Somme. AT RAVENSCRAIG PARK. 6/8 Marches—O’er the Charlie; Hot Punch landers: Up in the Early: Queen ...

Published: Friday 03 July 1970
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

FOR ALL THE FAMILY

... FOR ALL THE FAMILY \ “Somme” by Lyn Macdonald (M. Joseph £12.95) is the third book in this “author's powerful history series of the First World War. It brings to life the 1916 Battle of the Somme, the battle which has epitomised all the horror of that ...

Published: Friday 19 August 1983
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 248 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

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... Kingdom, enjoying the festivities and meeting old friends. On September 15, 1916, the first tank went into action at the battle of the Somme and the 60th anniversary of this new era in warfare was marked with a weekend of parades, sports, special dinners and ...

Published: Friday 08 October 1976
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 225 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FOR FATHER

... warfare in World War 1. Before being wounded and returned to Blighty, he took part in the Battle of the Somme, the battles of Arras and Cambrai, and the Third Battle of Ypres. John Tucker makes the reader realise what it was like to fight in the war to end ...

Published: Friday 30 June 1978
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Their Golden Day

... when Mr McDonald was home after service with the Black Watch during the First World War, He came safely through the Battle of the Somme, but ne ,was injured late in 1917, and subsequently sent homc. Both bride and groom were then 24 years old, The Rev ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1968
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 279 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

FOR THE CHILDREN

... the RAF won the Battle of Britain in the air over Southern England. The two youngsters become closely involved in many of the wartime events of that summer. Their story is illustrated with drawings by Clayton Knight. “Battle of the Somme’” by Christopher ...

Published: Friday 29 March 1974
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 346 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

READ ALL ABOUT

... of national conflicts. ‘Pozieres 1916’ by Peter Charlton (Leo Cooper: Secker & Warburg £14.95) is a study of a key battle of the Somme, in which the Australian troops suffered more than 23,000 casualties. It is a story of strategic and tactical blunders ...

Published: Friday 29 August 1986
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 429 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

READ ALL ABOUT IT

... memoirs of Captain Stormont Gibbs, MC, who survived the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and then took part in Arras in 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres and the retreat in 1918. These recollections by a battle-hardened veteran are set in their context by the editor ...

Published: Friday 08 August 1986
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 465 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BANNERS OF DARKNESS

... after the First World War, and where was the victory there? No victory at all. On July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the bloodiest day in the entire history of the British Army, in a little over an hour 67,470 casualties had been sustained ...

Published: Friday 17 May 1985
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 423 | Page: 18 | Tags: none