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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.
Aug 18, 2024 · Sports journalist Graham Spieres loved the show as a boy and later worked on it Credit: Stuart Wallace - The Sunday Times Glasgow
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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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...
Graham Spiers is a Scottish sports journalist who writes for the Scottish edition of The Times newspaper. He has won Scotland's Sports Journalist of the Year award four times. [1] Spiers grew up in Edinburgh, Fife and Glasgow, [2] and attended the University of St Andrews. [3] He worked as chief sportswriter at The Herald from 2001 to 2007. He ...
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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...
