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Sir Douglas Haig’s Dispatches. : Sir Douglas Haig's detailed dispatches on the battles of the Somme will, it is ..

... Sir Douglas Haig’s Dispatches. : Sir Douglas Haig's detailed dispatches on the battles of the Somme will, it is thought; be published on or about January 1. ‘They witll furnish some of the most absorbing war reading we've had yet. ...

Published: Friday 29 December 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 40 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

KAISER DECORATES HIS GENERALS AMSTERDAM, Friday

... Kuhl, his Chief of Staff, * for the exceilent manner which they checked the Franco-Britich attacks and thus gained the battle of the Somme.”’ ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1916
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 55 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... for France m July, o, He was woundand gassed at the battle of Loos in Septem. r. He spent several months in hospital, and his recovers «-* “~ lanw to th y, 1916, and was kiiled e battle of the Somme ust say that 1 have lost a most valuable soldier nd ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1917
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 939 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The Empire

... The Empire. A very fine series of pictures depicting scenes in the Battle of the Somme have been screened at the Empire Theatre, Coventry, this week. Apart from the entertaining character of the pictures, they are serving a useful purpose in bringing ...

Published: Friday 09 February 1917
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 190 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Feb. lOth, 19W.], 1 an entire lack of appreciation of the charm and interest of a remarkable building on a

... October 13th last Viscount Clive died of the wounds he received while leading his company of Ihe Welsh Guards at the battle of the Somme. Powis Castle is a home of mourning, but the name of its dead heir stands high on the Roll of Honour. H. AvRAY TIPPING ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1340 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

RECLAIMING THE WASTE

... is what Artemus Ward called a literary cuss, and perhaps there was poetic exaggeration in his suggestion that the Battle of the Somme must be fought out on the potato fi elds of England ; but in any case I thought it devolved on a plain citizen to ascertain ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4211 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

THE POTATO

... is what Artemus Ward called a literary cuss, and perhaps there was poetic exaggeration in his suggestion that the Battle of the Somme must be fought out on the potato fi elds of England ; but in any case I thought it devolved on a plain citizen to ascertain ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1342 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

COUNTRY LIFE

... LT. G. \V. P. WYA'l'l'. L'l'. FI'I'ZROY SOMERSET, i\l.C. LT. H. CECIL SOMERSET. Died of dyselltry. K illed in the Battle of the Somme . Killed at La Boiscl!e. Dallgel'ous/y wouuded on Vim)· Ridge. March 3rd, 1917.]' COUNTRY LIFE. 211 WHAT SUSSEX THE ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4579 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

212 yards distance. Mr. Hugh Wyatt of Cirsbury has lost two sons; Mr. Hugh G. P. Wyatt, his eldest son,

... Sussex Yeomanry; while his third son, Lieutenant Geoffrey W. P. Wyatt of the 3rd Buffs, was killed in action in the Battle of the Somme on September 15th. Mr. Hugh Wyatt's second son, Captain Richard Wyatt of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, is now serving ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2329 | Page: 42 | Tags: none

THE TANKS, Lincoln sees the Famous ‘Ancre’ Film

... some little indication. But we hope the battle of the Ancre is but the overture to such a drama of British offensive and of Tanks as no record of battles and of lnttle machines has ever yet suggested. The real battles of the Tanks have yet to come. When next ...

SHETLAND SOLDIER WOUNDED AND MISSING. PRIVATE GEORGE SPENCE

... and after a further course of training at Rigon, he crossed over to France in June, 1916, where he took part in the battles of the Somme and Ancre, in ithe latter of which he was wounded. Private Spence was the first boy to win a Secondary EPQ;llCllion ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1917
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HINDENBURG RETIRING

... and Queant. Mecanwhile the losses of the en;m.v are in ex cess of anything that could bhave been imayz ined. 3 The battle of the Somme resulted in 730,000 men being placed hors de combat. . It is impossible to estimate those incurred in the bloody defeat ...

Published: Saturday 12 May 1917
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 305 | Page: 7 | Tags: none