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The Big Picnic at Govan

... Imperial War Museum. That exhibition marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, one of the most famous but costly battles of the First World War. The story of the battle is told through a series of 1 3 chronological panels, each comprising ...

Published: Friday 02 September 1994
Newspaper: Lennox Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 275 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

Talking rubbish about wheelie bins SIR Bill Heaney is talking rubbish about wheeliebins. The larger ones hold ..

... battalions of the Highland Light Infantry. If any reader has any photos or stories relating to these battalions during the battle of the Somme we would like to hear from them, especially any veterans who may still be alive. Yours etc, Charles McDonald, 61 Whitby ...

Published: Friday 02 April 1993
Newspaper: Lennox Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 307 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

GUIDE TO WHAT'S ON THE BOX BBC- 1

... NEWS Weather 6.35 SONGS OF PRAISE From the Church of St John The Evangelist in Accrington. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 75 years ago, 700 men climhed out of their trenches and advanced across No Man's I.end towards the German Lines. In ...

Published: Friday 08 November 1991
Newspaper: Lennox Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 325 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

THE DEATH

... learned that in a battle of attrition, the war cannot be won in one grand maneouvre? A century of Liberal claims of support for Scottish home rule has achieved nothing, and if the Alliance persist with Sir Russell's battle of the Somme attitude, it never ...

Published: Friday 27 February 1987
Newspaper: Lennox Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 416 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Royal tribute for regiment

... in 1973 and 1953. But on this occasion there were memories of the Argylls who lost their lives at the Somme. For at that moment. Battle of the Somme commemorations were taking place in France. The Queen paid tribute to the battalion's tours of duty in ...

Published: Friday 19 July 1996
Newspaper: Lennox Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 438 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

By BILL HEANEY

... Camerons to the Somme. They had spent three months rebuilding the battalion after the casualties at LOOS. They held the line at Hulluch and in the Hohenzollern Sector drafts were absorbed and their numbers were strengthened. The Battle of the Somme started on ...

Published: Friday 06 March 1987
Newspaper: Lennox Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 500 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

LINOOKSME

... forebears the men from Back Street who went over the top on the Ist of July, 1916. You can marvel at their heroism in the Battle of the Somme in - Lions Led by Donkeys on Channel 4 next Wednesday night for an hour from lOpm. These men, mostly now in their nineties ...

Published: Friday 20 June 1986
Newspaper: Lennox Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1435 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

James Aitken relates his story of the First World War to chSdren in Renton Primary School. HISTORY AS IT THERE

... to bump into one at the Battle of the Somme. - And what was the Somme really like? Mr Aitken said: It was terrible, really terrible. I lost a lot of my colleagues . . . a lot of very good friends. The Camerons went from Somme to Arras and from there ...

Published: Friday 06 March 1987
Newspaper: Lennox Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1181 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

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... from the Imperial War Museum That exhibition marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme one of most famous but costly of the First World War The story of the battle is told through series of 13 chronological panels each comprising short piece ...

Published: Friday 02 September 1994
Newspaper: Clyde Weekly News
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1440 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

20 The Lennox Herald February 27 1 998 ' THEATRE KRAFT'S LAST TAPE Citizen Theatre Stalls Studio Until Saturday ..

... THE SOMME RSAMD Chandler Studio Tuesday March 24 to Friday March 27 7 15pm £3 (concessions £2) 0141 332 Frank McGuiness’ moving play is the tale of eight Ulstermen who volunteer to fight the First World War and climaxes in the Battle of the Somme took ...

Published: Friday 27 February 1998
Newspaper: Lennox Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3262 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

10 Clyde Weekly News Friday February 27 1 998 THEATRE KRAPP'S LAST TAPE Citizens Theatre Stalls Studio Until ..

... TOWARDS THE SOMME RSAMD Chandler Studio Tuesday March 24 to Friday March 27 715pm £350 (concessions £2) 0141 332 5057 Frank McGuiness' moving play is the tale of eight Ulstermen who volunteer to fight in the First World War and climaxes in the Battle of the ...

Published: Friday 27 February 1998
Newspaper: Clyde Weekly News
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 3717 | Page: 10 | Tags: none