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MF.HORI.\L TO THE ITAT}I CAPTAIN THE HON. R. P. STANHOPE, OF REVESBY ABBEY

... RICHARD PHILIP STANHOPE, 3rd Grenadier Guards, of Revesby Abbey, who wae killed in action on September 15th, 1916, in the Battle of the Somme. The object of the Memorial is to erect two Stained (ilass Windows in the chancel of Reveshy Church, of which he was ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1917
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 188 | Page: 2 | 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

COST OF THE WAR

... limbs of our brave soldiers are eaved by a large expenditure of material, as we found during many of the stages of the Battle of the Somme and as has been still more marked in the recent successes on the Ancre. But £5790,000 a day is about equal to the whole ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1917
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 708 | Page: 2 | 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

THE MILITARY MEDAL

... Machine Gun Corps, has won the Military Medal after being in France 12 months. This is the reward for services in the Battle of the Somme. He was employed at the Swift Works, and lodged at 14, Clarence Street, Coventry. Oakes is a native of Kidderminster ...

Published: Friday 07 September 1917
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 172 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

WOUNDED AND A PRISONER

... Horn, 2/7 Royal Warwickshire Regiment, whose parents reside at 17, Bell Green, was wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of the Somme, on July 19th, 1916, and he has just sent home the accompanying picture. He spent his 918 t birthday in Germany last ...

Published: Friday 21 September 1917
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 285 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PTE. ALEX. LAURENSON

... on Ist August, 1916, He was wounded in the battle of the Somme, and was in hospital in France for a few weeks. On recovering I‘;e again went to the fromt, and on 10th November, he was wounded at the battle of the Ancre. He was sent on to England and ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1917
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 333 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Pe.C. MACNAMARA

... 27th. Pte. Macnamara enlisted in September, 1914, and went to France early in 1915. He was wounded, in June, in the battle of the Somme, by a machine-gun bullet through the left thigh, _ ) and sent back to England. . Upon his recovery, he again went to ...

Published: Friday 12 October 1917
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 308 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

TATTERSHALL,

... a beautitul marble clock, in recognition of hig splendid service 1o hie country. M. Roase lost his left arm in the battle of the Somme on July Ist, 191¢, ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1917
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AWARDED THE STAR OF MONS

... big engagements, the most important of whick were :—Mons, Le Chateau, Marne, first and second battles of Ypres, Aisne, first and second battles of the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Messines, and Arras. It is to be hoped that a continuance of Sergt. Peterson’s good ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1918
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 5 | Tags: none