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Lisa turns the tables on leaders chancel ; Division Three strugglers Ex-Services opened up the title race after beating the leaders from the Chancel Hotel.
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Division Three strugglers Ex-Services opened up the title race
after beating the leaders from the Chancel Hotel.
It proved to be sweet revenge for host skipper Lisa Briers and
her colleagues who were beaten 7-2 last October by the table-
toppers.
Come the return leg the visitors were caught on the hop as Ex-
Services took a surprise 3-1 lead in the singles, after losing the
first frame.
Chancel, who were defending a four point lead at the top, fought
back to twice level the score at three-all and then four-all.
But Lisa and her vice-captain Leigh Cuthbert kept their cool to
take the last ...
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Last frame thriller brings unbeaten run to an end ; Cundy Desperados surrendered their unbeaten record in the Scunthorpe Rileys Tuesday Pool League in a last frame thriller against Desert Rat A.
Newspaper article from: Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
; ...Ladies 6; Beacon B 4 Desert Rat C 6. DIVISION SIX: Emerald MX 0 Sherpa...Mayfair v Cons Club. DIVISION TWO: Mill Road v Desert Rat A; Redbourn A v Malt...Rat D v Desert Rat B; Desert Rat C v Beacon B. DIVISION SIX: St Bernadette...
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Ex-desert rat tank driver among veterans honoured
Newspaper article from: Derby Evening Telegraph
; A Former Desert Rat, who was wounded on active...served with the 7th Armoured Division for five years from 1941...think about my time as a Desert Rat too much, as I lost a...well during my time as a Desert Rat. "Before I went into...
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Honoured desert rat home for Christmas
Newspaper article from: Gloucestershire Echo, The
; ...during his last tour, six months as a Desert Rat in the Middle East. Cpl Dulake, a former...The name was coined in 1938 when the division was formed in Egypt in the aftermath...relationship with the 14th Iraqi Army Division and helped to develop their skills...
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Desert Rat, 77 routs thief who snatched his pension money; Mr Wotton: 'My blood boiled' Badge of honour: The soldier aged 18.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...was, nor, more importantly, the fact that he is a former Desert Rat. The grandfather-of-four sprinted after one of the men...Royal Horse Artillery, which was attached to the 7th Armoured Division between 1948 and 1950. 'I've heard of similar things happening...
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A Desert Rat's tale of war
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; THE exploits of former Desert Rat Ernie Cheeseman have been preserved for future generations. For...is the two-and-a-half years he spent with the 7th Armoured Division in North Africa which dominates his 74,000-word memoirs. During...
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Funeral of ex-desert rat and veteran campaigner
Newspaper article from: Derby Evening Telegraph
; ...Telegraph campaign is due to take place next week. Former Desert Rat Syd Deakin lost both his legs and was blind in one eye due...in the army. The 85-year-old was in the 7th Armoured Division and had fought in North Africa, where his tank was blown...
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Desert Rat 'mutineers' in fresh fight for justice over 1943 disgrace
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...revolt at Salerno were sentenced to death by firing squad and the other mutineers, from the 51st Highland Division and the 50th Tyne Tees Division, were jailed. Although the death sentences were later commuted, the men were stripped of their campaign...
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Desert Rat CO turns up the heat on Hoon
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...September 2002. He said the initial intention had been to attack through Turkey into northern Iraq with the 4th US Infantry Division, but that idea was abandoned very early in 2003 when it emerged that Turkey might not be prepared to countenance the plan...
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Desert Rat veterans search for Normandy hero
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...for another conflict - this time in Iraq. Les Dinning, who was instrumental in setting up a memorial to the 7th Armoured Division at their former base in Theftford Forest, said he had traced a photograph of Sgt McConnachie in a Cromwell MkIV tank named...
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Jimmy, a desert rat still fighting.(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...Gott was next most important in North Africa to the Prime Minister. Montgomery, brooding and full of jealousy, was given a division to command. Not the whole army. A way of reading it is Gott could have been the man who beat Rommel. Montgomery might have...
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