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AND SIR TENNYS(

... it. The Chairman: We can take this from you, Mr. Russe!l, if vou have the programme. . You knew that the Tank ‘n the battle of the Somme was the Tank displayed at Hatfield >—lt was in principle toe model. m?};é: Chairman: As far as I Kknow, there is no ...

THE HIGH-PITCHED ROOF CLOTHED IN RUSSET BROWN THATCH

... leave;;. My boy went, he repeated, and again, straightening his bent back. fixed his blue eyes on mine. It was at the battle o' the Somme that he was missed. Months after they found him hangin' on the Jarmans' barbed wire-naught but a few pore fragments ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1798 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

MAJOR W, G. WILSON, B.A

... above recommendations, we an‘ taken into account not merely the precise class of Tanks which went Into action at the Battle of the Somme, but also any modified or improved classes* of Tanks which may fgirly be considered to result from the normal development ...

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 LION'S MOUSE

... late George Wyndham, poems while E. W T. was still at school ; and the volume of verse be published just before the battle of the Somme, called ' ' W orple Flit.'' 7/6 net. Sept. 27th, 1919.] COUNTRY LIFE. ci. Messrs. METHUEN'S NEW BOOKS New Illustrated ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1919
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2104 | Page: 130 | Tags: none

THOUGIHT HE WAS HHLPING THE POLICE.”

... D.S.O: e gained the Military Cross in February last. Photo, Harrison, Lancoln, coolnesds and tenacity in the great battle of the Somme, from July Ist to the 10th, he recoived the above-mentioned award. Lieut, Jones js the third and youngest son of the ...

dainty Grace Darmond in the cast (the latter remembeored for her fino performance in “The Touse of a 1,000 ..

... tions, so it looks as if patrons of {his house lurn in for a good time, | Corn Exchange. The famous war picture, “The Battle of the Somme,” is dealt with in another part of this issue. . Nexr Werk.—Mr, Kadwell has hooked two | eood films for the coming week ...

LIGHT> o’ LIN By X-Ra

... grim: of what is happening on the of Burope. We are told that houses were compelled sickly silence by the cinema the battle of the Somme. Wh they saw there in a sort of something of what it looks li man killed. I Lope we are those pictures in Lincoln. They ...

PTE. JACKSON

... hasfallen in action. He went to France in August, 1914, gained the D.C.M. in August of last year, and lost his life in the battle of the Somme. He had been through a lot of hard fighting. His age was 23, and he was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Burton, 171 ...

Published: Friday 10 November 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 554 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

F~rce and have won numerous D.S.O.s, Military Crc·sses and mentions in despatches

... and Boulogne and towns in that area. Such a reputation did these squadrc·ns \~in as air-scrapper;; that when the battle of the Somme began Sir Douglas Haig borrowed a couple of squadrons of them to help his own chaser squadrons, and the R.N.A.S. pilots ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3087 | Page: 109 | 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

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 ...