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BATTLE OF THE SOMME. THE FRANCO-BRITISH ATTACK GUILLEMONT. PERONNE REPORTED FLAMES. (EXCHANGE TELEGRAPH ..

... BATTLE OF THE SOMME. THE FRANCO-BRITISH ATTACK GUILLEMONT. PERONNE REPORTED FLAMES. (EXCHANGE TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S TELEGRAMS.) Paris, Wednesday. The grcuud now being.entirely ploughed the wbolo of the Allies' front both hanks of heavy artillery.'' These ...

A GERMAN ADMLSrtION,

... military critic of the “Vossische Zeitung,” writing in the issue of that journa! of August 16 on the subject of the Battle of the Somme. made the following remarkable ddinission : “To-day we can adinit without hesitation that- cer- tuin regiments came ...

Published: Friday 18 August 1916
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 67 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MOT A CHAMBER OF HORRORS

... “Old Soldier” complains that at a London anems show the following was thrown on the screen : We are not Showing the Battle of the Somme, This is a Place of Amusement, Not a Chambor of Horrors. My son (he continues) was wounded at Tluepra!, end these “ ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1916
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 93 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE GREAT PUSH

... THE GREAT PUSH. NEW PICTORIAL WORK ON THE BATTLE OP THE SOMME. Intense interest has been taken in the War Office films the Battle of the Somme, and now, under the title of Sir Douglas Haig's Great Push, Messrs. Hutchinson and Co., of London, publish ...

Published: Thursday 21 September 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SUCCESSFUL LEEDS CONCERT

... largo attendance on Saturday evening. Lieut. A. L. C. Hamilton, of the Black Watch Regiment, who has been through the battle of the Somme, presided, and gave some mteratting incidents of his experiences. in glowing terms the conduct of the soldiers and expressed ...

Published: Monday 25 September 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 122 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SOMME FILM HERO IDENTIFIED

... SOMMEF FILM HERO ID N TIFIED In tho official film of the Battle of the Somme a British soldier is shown carrying a badly-wounded soldier to safety, and he is described as “an unknown hero who rescued twenty wounded men.” That soldier is Triver Tom Spencer ...

Published: Monday 02 October 1916
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GREAT BRITISH ADVANCE

... GREAT BRITISH ADVANCE dhe British Army secured one of the greatest successes yet achieved the Battle ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ON THE SOMME

... ON THE SOMME The battle of the Somme proceeds with deliberation. The Germane thought th Allies wo l M hare tired of it before j but it jfoes from day to day, and very day sec® a bit won here and another bit twined there, and by the end of the week theee ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

STORY OF THE WAR FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

... STORY OF THE WAR FOR YOUNG PEOPLE In the great battle of the Somme our men have been fighting their way uphill most of the time, until Saturday they got to the crest of the ridge north of Pozieres. This ridge is most important, because the effects of ...

Published: Tuesday 22 August 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

W ANT> O* LINER TORPEDOED

... about the beginning the year. 335 lives being lost. THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. events o! importance were report® I on the Somme Front yesterday 'ternoon. The Germans admit the loss south ot the Somme of the villages of Ablaincourt and Pressoirc, raptured ...

Published: Thursday 09 November 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 3 | Tags: none