... He died with Somme old comrades Mr. W. J. Lammin, of Neasden (Middlesex), aged 70, collapsed and died after marching with his old comrades of the 1914—18 war to the Cenotaph yesterday to commemorate the battle of the Somme. ...

... Auckland farmer Mr. H Hivwood, has coughed up a piece of Germuat shrapnel which lay embedded in his head sipce the battle of the Somme in 1918, It was aninch and a half long, half-an-inch thick, ind weighed half an ounce, + - - B-r-r-r-h-h, it's a well ...

... Letters to the Editor 56 years after « « « On July 1 some 56 years ago the three-month Battle of the Somme broke out. In it were the lads of 1/6 pattalion South Staffords. This battalion was comprised of lads from Wolverhampton and adjacent towns and ...

... hell of an enjoyable business. As a Glasgow soldier and a Prussian private who decide that fighting for real in the Battle of the Somme is strictly for the birds, they provided the funniest half hour on television this week. | No doubt there will be those ...

... He has spent 23 years in the Army, and ten of them getting himself shot at. He was at both battles of the Somme and at Dunkirk. “The Somme was the worst battle in the history of mankind. If my memory serves me right, we lost 65,000 men in one day. The ...

... the story of Germany’s flying aces in World War L The Blue Max was the highest honour for gallantry in the air. The Battle of the Somme sequences are among the screen’s most memorable reconstructions of the carnage of trench warfare. 9 3PP of 1972. Alastair ...

... hospital beds, ete, through driving over the limit of intoxicants. So beware motorists and think deeply. “STILL BATTLING FROM THE SOMME,” Blakenhall, Wolverhampton. ...

... cable tele: vision in reaching areas where transmitted reception was poor, . But a national cable nets work—a second Battle of the Somme” — could take 20-25 years. ...

... aged 72, of Parkfield Road, Wolverhampton, were . married at Ettingshall Church, ' Mr. Onions, who fought in ‘the battle of the Somme, is a retired foundry worker. Mrs. Onions worked on munitions before her marriage. The couple, who have two children ...

... Elwes, the film producer, recently won a Society of Film and Television award for its short film, Memorial, about the Battle of the Somme. Mr Elwes said: “We're very small, but we’'ve made quite a few films, “Our financial situation can be blamed on the ...

... so—~News Headlines. 1.55-—Ragtime. 2.lo—Goldwyn Greats.®* Roman Scandals, Starring Eddie Cantor. 3.3s—The Great War.* Battle of the Somme. 4.ls—The Basil Brush Show. 4.4s—Alias Smith and Jones. Featuring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy. s.3s—Heidi. Part 5. A doctor ...

... started writing for television. She was a guest script-writer for the last series of Upstairs Downstairg — she did the Battle of the Somme episode — and this autumn has two 50-minute plays coming up on TV. A book of her collected short stories is just about ...