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May 25th, 1918.] Supptemellt to COUNTRY LIFE. WALTON & LEE ~o LONDON AND EDINBURGH. BY DIRECTION OF VISCOUNT ..

... on Saturdays. Long years we learned and grew, and in this place XXXIV . LIEUTENANT WILLIAi\I OEL HODGSON fell in the battle of the Somme, July rst, 1916, at the early age of twenty-three. So far I have see,,, as it seems to me, no adequate notice of his ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1918
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 19106 | Page: 59 | Tags: none

Long years we learned and grew, and in this place

... Long years we learned and grew, and in this place XXXIV . LIEUTENANT WILLIAi\I OEL HODGSON fell in the battle of the Somme, July rst, 1916, at the early age of twenty-three. So far I have see,,, as it seems to me, no adequate notice of his little book ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1918
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3527 | Page: 56 | Tags: none

The June * Strand.”

... work should soon make him a favourite with English readers. Sir A. Conan Doyle concludes his detailed account of the Battle of the Somme in 1916-— the first portion of which attracted so much attention in last month’s issue—ard emphasises its decisive ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1918
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 149 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DOUGLAS HAIG

... under vour command. their warmest congratulations on the great triumph achieved by the Allied arms in this the third battle of the Somme. The British Empire sends its heartfelt thanks to yo and yvour most gallant troeps. ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1918
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 69 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A HERO OF THE SOMME LINCOLN DRAPER DIES IN HOSPITAL

... life in the Army has been a very exciting one, as ha was wounded in the first battle of the Somme. He joined the Lincolnshire Regiment in 1015, and went to France the same year. Later he was transfrred to the Somarset Light Infantry. In 1917 hé journeyed ...

THE LINCOLN LEADER AND COUNTY ADVERTISER SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1918. g - .. &o~ - — - ,____—___‘. R— i

... ted withdrawals of history. The Battle of Jutland was in 116, and it was the Battle of Jutland whic‘x broke the power of the great German #\rmada, and sent it s]\'ulklni into harbour fer the rest of the war—the Battle of [lutland which vindicated our ...

were put on to

... Private Burgess was drafted to France in 1916, and took part in the battle of the Somme angd also the Ancre. He contracted trench fever, after his re. covery from which be took part in the battle around Vimy Ridge, where he was wounded in one of his hands, Deing ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1919
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 801 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... itable w«\ T ind hardly matter We now z‘lpproach i o niidence the fair hopes built on the military position after the Battle of the Somme. Unrestricted submarine warfare, while biinging®®u an ulthmately powerful Allv, produced also an minediate situnation ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1919
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2052 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TRAGIC WAR RECORD. ONIN ONE LEFT OF FAMILY OF THEN,

... France. - His father and four brothers were all hilled on the same day—July 15th, 1916—in the first advance at the battle of the Somme. The eldest son was only twenty-two. The youth's three sisters were all killed in air raids, while his mother was the ...

Published: Saturday 26 April 1919
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 160 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LERWICK SOLDIER AWARDED MILITARY MEDAL

... on 28th November, 1915. After that the histaor{ of the Gordons would be the story of the war. It was not until the battle of the Somme—where so many young Shetlanders fell—that Sergt.-Major Gray had {!il first real cx]}n]eriencc of flf:ating on a grand ...

Published: Saturday 31 May 1919
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 468 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

June 7th, 1919. J .COUNTRY LIFE. and then our own fresh Guards coming forward eager and new into the fray

... y little effect upon the enemy. These battles were in the autumn of rgrs, and with the winter lull the Guards went to Flanders and finally into the Ypres Salient, where they remained until the battle of the Somme late in rgr6. In a curious way they associated ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1919
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1378 | Page: 123 | Tags: none