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... Memorial to honour second world war victims OVER 40 years ago the 617 Squadron bombed the Ruhr dams in Germany, crippling the enemy war effort. Now the 200 men who died during those and subsequent raids are to be honoured with a special memorial — thanks ...
... Memories of a Second World War prisoner A STORY in The Sleaford Standard’s 75th anniversary brochure about Ukrainian POWs in Horbling just after the last war has spurred a former member of the camp to tell his own tale. The article from 1947 alleged that ...
... It is now more than forty years since the end of the Second World War and 70 years since the First, and those who remember it are in a diminishing minority. In fact, anybody who served throughout that war is today over sixty years of age. Others may have ...
... A familiar sight on the Al 5 is the Dunston Pillar which until the Second World War supported a statue of George 11l The pillar was originally a land lighthouse with a 15 feet h igh lantern, set up in the days when travellers on the lonely heath were ...
... Although ill - health prevented him from serving actively he joined the Observer Corps during the Second World War. In his younger days he had been a keen swimmer and a member of Sleaford Swimm- . ing Chub. Correction thl:';‘s ’;‘:2:{:,‘o2;:,_’ y & Gren ...
... First and Second World Wars, and other conflicts. Church services will remember those who returned home, and those who did not, and a two-minute-silence will be held at 11am Sunday and 11am Monday - Armistice Day — when the Second World War ended. Many ...
... a wartime knees-up at the pub last week. Drinkers were invited to go to the do in the sort of clothes worn during the Second World War. But ‘wartime’ austerity ended there with people able to tuck into an allyou-can eat buffet. There were prizes for the ...
... attempts at strategic bombing in the First World War. It then carries the theme through to the great air campaigns of the Second World War: the Blitz, the Allied air offensive against Germany, the German VI and V 2 attacks on Britain and the dropping of atomic ...
... War pictures sought for book DO you have any memorabilia of the important role that women played in the Second World War? If so, then Heritage Lincolnshire would like to hear from you. The trust is on the lookout for photographs, posters and any documents ...
... classic comedy of yesteryear. Play: Schweyk In The Second World War (R 3 6.30 pm). Michael Williams plays Schweyk, a role he played with the RSC in 1976, in Bertholt Brecht's Schweyk in the Second World War. The play shows the successful efforts of the good ...
... percolator in recognition of her services to the club as treasurer, a position which she held from the beginning of the second World War to early this year. She has also been made a life-member of the club. Mrs. Cross, who lives at 3 Northwood Drive, Sleaford ...
... wartime play WINCHELSEA Primary School in Ruskington staged a play last Wednesday night called The First of the Few. The Second World War drama was about children who ask their grandfather why they have to learn about the war. They are transported back in ...