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... pois'(mmn matter which alone is the tro o GERMAN REPORT OF SOMME FIGHTING. German evening papers* publish the first part of a long report from Headquarters concerning the battle of the Somme in July. It is stated that in the middle of May the German forces ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1916
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 337 | Page: 6 | 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

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... 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

TELEGRAMS BETWEEN EMPEROR OF RUSSIA AND KING GEORGE

... sending to Your Majesty, and to your gallant armies, my heartiest greetings upon their last achievements in the great battle of the Somme.—Nicholas, Sept 29, 1916.. In the name of my army, and on my own behalf, 1 heartily thank Your Majesty for your gratifying ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1916
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 2 | 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

GERMAN REPORT ON SOMME BATTLE HEAVY STORMING ATTACK BY ALLIES

... GERMAN REPORT ON SOMME BATTLE HEAVY STORMING ATTACK BY ALLIES SOMME DRAMA DRAWING TO AN END. A semi-official description of the big battles on the Somme which iz issued in Berlin says:—The fighting between 9th and 13th October was the ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 1916
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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

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