... anniversary service to commemorate the Battle of the Somme held at the battlefield last Tuesday. They joined with over 90 people on a four-day visit arranged by Sutton Travel and one of the first graves they saw at the Somme was in memory of Hucknall soldier ...

... episodes in history, the Battle of the Somme. 11.30 LIVE AND LEARN: Reporter Donny O'Rourke joins 12 women from Fyfe spending three days on a course in Perthshire learning to be assertive. 12.00 JOBWATCH. 12.30 TAKE 30: Battle of the Toy Lords. % 1.00 ...

... collect signatures for a petition by Andrew McKinlay to =supplied by ECS, and Parliament next Friday to coincide with the Battle of the Somme anniversary. Z PP Payne, Giltbrook. ® “Signatures will be welcome from ex-servicemen, sympathisers and the Royal = British ...

... His body was identified after the Germans retreated in February, 1917. So ended the Battle of the Somme. There never was, and never has been since, a greater battle in which the British army fought. m:namyddvfliamhwwmcomnnmtprotessiona!tomin That they ...

... Cyril Lowe is among 300 World War One veterans who make a pilgrimage to France to mark the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. And in sport Hucknall brothers Neil and Clive Springthorpe win the King's Cup — pigeon racing'’s equivalent to the ...

... now.” In reply to Mrs Dobb’s letter, Mr Tipping admits there has been a “great deal of damage”. “It looks like the Battle of the Somme has been ton?m there,” he said. he MP held a meeting with Martin Glynn, forestry and land management officer for the ...

... Executive, being invited to the studios to discuss this particular tour was that 1986 is the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. The first of the series of the three tours by Sutton Travel coincides with the commencement date — July 1 — when this ...

... ted him on his award. He also gave an insight into the appearance of the average soldier at the time — by then the Battle of the Somme had been going on for over three months. “Tommy is about to leave the trenches after a four days' spell,” Luther wrote ...

... competition at Uttoxeter Show in 1913. He joined the 13th East Yorkshire Infantry in 1916 and was involved with the Battle of the Somme, being wounded at Vimy Ridge in 1917, he went back to France in 1918, being there when Peace was declared. After his ...

... he simply said: “Heavy”! ~ The main part of the visit, however, centred on a study of the sites associated with the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The party walked through pre- served First World War trenches before climbing out and crossing ‘no-man’s land’ ...

... Sabin was wounded and returned to England to convalesce. He returned to France only to be wounded a second time at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. At the end of the war, Geroge returned to Bestwood Colliery as a miner only to be injured in a coal-face accident ...

... Mabel’s Simple Life’ and ‘The Adventures of Deadwood Dick’. Life seemed to be going on as usual. R e But news of the Battle of the Somme cast a grim shadow. And the Dispatch published the names of 58 Hucknall ‘fallen heroes’. It was against this background ...