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... EVENING TELEGRAPH Wednesday November 16 1994 100th birthday for last of the Chums THE Battle of the Somme left hundreds of young British soldiers dead and many more wounded Among the injured was 21-year-old George Barker of Grimsby shot in the knee on ...
... y CA h.?. as Mr. and Mrs. A. W. A [.ff, * 1 ® , I,e d in action, July 1, •blAi Huh 1 i, Somme.—May liis rey lauff Us sacrifice.—From his - »•« w W , on the Somme, Julv 1, x- ‘253 °. 545 fChuras), died in A*’ J 1 low a - remembered.—F.T.H. T’aii nie 197 ...
... riby square for Everything tor the golfer Christmas Grimsby Golf Contro 236 man Slraat 362910 rBy EILA RANA in the Battle of the Somme “It was shown at the Tivoli cinema and has never been seen again in public until today 80 years after Grimsby first ...
... exsoldiers yesterday visited Flers and Longueval, which wmre captured in 1916 by the New Zealand Division during the Battle of the Somme. The delegation was led Mise Brenda Bell, sister of the general who commanded the division, and she and other women ...
... Lincolnshire Regiment affectionally known as ‘The Chums’ It was on July 1 1916 that the bloodiest battle of the Great War took place the Battle of the Somme On the first day alone 500 Grimsby Chums were killed Today only one survivor remains my father-in-law ...
... service remembrance for the members of the Grimsby Chums Battalions (10th and 11th Lincolns), who lost their lives in the Battle of the Somme, was more impressive than ever. The Reverend W. G. Calvert Lee (Vicar of Fotherby), and Dr. H. T. Cheshire, of St. James’s ...
... movie makers of yesteryear Including: Cleethorpes revisited in the I950’s Tribute to the Grimsby Chums who fell at the “Battle of the Somme in 1916 Gymnastic display by the sumving members of the “Lincolnshire Regiment” at Cleethorpes in the summer of 1919 ...
... Memorial Service which w ill be held at the Grimsby Parish Church at 7.30 p.m. to-day, the 23rd anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. The Rev. W. G. Calvert Lee, Vicar of Fotherby will preach, and wreaths will be laid in the Memorial Chapel. COMMUNICANTS’ ...
... the law into their own hands” Head of housing Bob Livermore added: “We AIR-SEA BATTLE TO SAVE SINKING BOAT IN NORTH SEA GALES EMERGENCY services were this afternoon battling to save a stricken Belgian fishing vessel in mountainous seas off Spurn Point ...
... Grimsby Dr Bill Hunt of the history department said: “He is thought to have died on July 1 1916 - the first day of the Battle of the Somme” He said Private Watson came from Grimsby or lived here for a time President Jack JACK Brooksbank who was Grimsby’s ...
... story of endurance heroism and carnage from the battle of Mons to the Somme He has penned the following poem in honour of the 75th anniversary: The Lincolns Battalion marching to the Somme Grimsby ’ their battle cry the Town where they were from The Lincolns ...
... the Somme Fifteen officers and 487 men were killed missing or were wounded most in the first 15 murderous minutes of the battle on July 1 1916 Over the years many words have been written about the Chums about their part in the Battle of the Somme and ...