Refine Search

Countries

Place

Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland

Access Type

11

Type

6
5

Public Tags

No tags available

» & 4 – ¢ 7 il

... wreath at Belfast Cenotaph to mark Battle of the Somme anniversary. Ta:ty leader, Mr James Molyneaux y? of remembrance — the large crowd which gathered at the Belfast Cenotaph for the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme watches Ulster's leaders and armed ...

Published: Tuesday 02 July 1985
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 429 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Somme hero defies new danger

... through the town after a Somme commemoration ceremony at the town's war memonal. @ Police stood guard at possible flashpoint street junctions in Armagh city centre last night as 100 Orangemen paraded to the annual Battle of the Somme wreath-laying ceremon‘v‘ ...

Published: Tuesday 02 July 1985
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 533 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Heritage

... after the UVF forgot Ulster's troubles to help Britain in her fi&t: against Germany and di tinguished themselves at the Battle of the Somme winning three Victoria Crosses. So for the sake of Ulster tell Hurd & Hermon to get lost and defend our Hernitage. I ...

Published: Tuesday 16 July 1985
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 220 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

TODAY’S EVENTS

... TODAY’S EVENTS @ Battle of the Somme commemoration ceremonies at Beifast City Hall, 11 am, and at Om'&, Armagh, Banbddg; llymena, Enniskilien, Londonderry, and Castiederg. @ Mini Twelfth Orange Order parade In east Belfast, leaves Templemore Avenue, 7 ...

Published: Monday 01 July 1985
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Hand off our police

... these shores to fight against the enemy and to defend our country. When given the command to go over the top as in the Battle of the Somme, many of them knew it was the end, to disobey was to die in dishonour'and disgrace. That is why on Remembrance gunday ...

Published: Friday 23 August 1985
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 298 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Ulster loses heroic Somme battle survivor

... Ulster loses heroic Somme battle survivor Lieut. Col. Victor Burke-Murphy, one of the last survivors of the Battle of the Somme, has died in hospital. He was 87. He was commissioned into the Royal Irish Rifles in 1914, fought in France and Flanders and ...

Published: Friday 19 April 1985
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 288 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

6,000 march at mini Twelfth

... Ballymacarrett's number six district of the County Grand Lodge of Belfast commemorated the 69th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. The warm evening and dry weather brought thousands of spectators out with the seven-mile route being dotted with many ...

Published: Tuesday 02 July 1985
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 323 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Trial run for the big match

... takes Place tonfill: when the city's biggest di trict, No 6 Ballymacarrett, commemorates the 69th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. The 54 lod ges will be marching to the music of 50 silver, flute, accordion and pipe bands and joinins them will be ...

Published: Monday 01 July 1985
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 426 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Channel 4

... DONKEYS: The Battie of the Somme. What did it feel like to go over the top on the Ist July, 1916, and to survive the greatest disaster in the history of the British Army? Some of the remaining survivors of the Battle of the Somme, now in their nineties, ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1985
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 403 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

o

... has kept it well hidden. Let me give you as starkly as 1 can the last moments of the ?hy. July 1916 just before the battle of the Somme. Eight British soldiers, all from Ulster, all with Orange sashes round their necks, await the summons to the slaughter ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1985
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 550 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Bl PARADES CONFLICT

... on the march Orangemen in Rathfriland took part in & nuni- Twelfth parade in the town last night to commemorate the battle of the Somme anniversary. At least 20 lodges, all with bands, took part. Meanwhile, in Hillsborough, Orangemen paraded through the ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1985
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 603 | Page: 6 | Tags: none