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Nov 29, 2020 · He and his wife, Myra, spent many happy holidays there over a period of more than 20 years. Graham was an elder in Abbey Church in North Berwick for more than 30 years.
Nov 28, 2020 · Having decided around 1990 to fully retire, he started searching for a property abroad, eventually buying a flat in the resort of Puerto Pollensa in Majorca. He and his wife, Myra, spent many happy holidays there over a period of more than 20 years.
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Ronald Charles Speirs was born on 20th April, 1920 in the Scottish city of Edinburgh.1 He was the youngest of five children for parents Robert Craig Speirs, Jr and Martha Agnes (McNeil) Speirs, 2but his stay in Scotland was to be short.
Robert Speirs, Ronald’s father, was born in Greenock, Scotland in 1882.3 His engineering career began as a young man when he became an apprentice engineer fitter in the Glasgow area.4 Around this time, Robert met Martha McNeil. They were married in 1908 5and lived in Dalmuir, just outside Glasgow. By this time, Robert was a journeyman engineer. Rob...
Ronald spent his child and early adulthood in Boston, though records show during the summer break, when Ronald was between 8th and 9th grades, he and his parents sailed back back to the UK on the MV Georgic, part of the Cunard White Star line, from Boston.12 The journey took them through New York and Galway in Ireland before docking in Liverpool on...
Ronald Speirs’ first marriage took place on 20th May 1944 to an English girl he met whilst stationed in Aldbourne, Wilshire, England.19 Speirs recalled, “before the invasion, I was sent down to Winchester to set up a camp for an infantry division coming up from Africa. There I met my English wife who was a member of the ATS, the British women’s ser...
Mar 10, 2024 · Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1920, Ronald Speirs’ early life holds few clues to the formidable soldier he would become. Speirs, the youngest of five, emigrated to the United States with his...
Ronald Speirs: ‘Imperfect But Daring Leader’ - Warfare History Network. Photo Credit: 101st Airborne Division troopers, backed by Sherman tanks, battle the Germans in the woods surrounding Bloody Gulch in Normandy, June 1944, where Lieutenant Ronald Speirs and his men fought.
Oct 21, 2012 · Last week I got to know Jack, a 26-year-old Clydesdale cross and his two companions, a pair of Shetland ponies called Hector and Sunflower, as they stamped about in the stable anticipating Aileen’s...
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Robert Cunningham Graham Speirs or Spiers FRSE (1797–1847) was a 19th-century Scottish advocate and prison reformer. In later life he is largely referred to sim...
