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Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 670 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE STRUGGBLE AT QUILLEMONT RIDEE

... west.” The ““ Times says of - the situation: “Though no one, and, least of all, Sir Douglas lh;gk, expects the great battle of the Somme to partake of the character of a supreme decision, yet it had already .reached dimensions and assumed a form [Norwich ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: Downham Market Gazette
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 702 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A DIFFICULT PRAM

... The ------- Times say. of the situation: Though no one, and, least of all, Sir Douglas Haig, expects the great battle of the Somme to partake of the character of a supreme decision, yet it had already reached dimensions and assumed a form which may ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: Lowestoft Journal
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 877 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

RUSSIAN TRENCH RAID IN

... DELVILLB WOOD WAS CLEARED. Paris, July 28. After some of the grimmest fighting that has marked the whole course of the battle on the Somme front the British, comprising Scottish, South African, and Territorial troops, have driven the famous Brandenburgers ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1064 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LATEST NEWS. ANOTHER GERMAN MURDER. CAPTAIN OF THE BRUSSELS SHOT

... grasp of the much-vaunted Brandenburghers. The capture of Pozieres logically concluded the second stage of the great Battle of the Somme; it definitely established the British on the line to which the second main *‘ push ’’ was directed. The ** Times ' ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: Wiltshire Telegraph
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 973 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE

... WERE DRIVEN OUT. I:rida (received to-dal. After some of the grimmest fighting that has marked the whole course of the battle on the Somme front. the British, comprising Scottish, South .%frican, and Territorial troops, have driven the fainou. Brandenburgerß ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: Westminster Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1115 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HIS LORDSHIP’S CHARGE

... of Antrim, had referred to the great gallantry which had distinguished the troops from Ulster in the fighting on the battle of the Somme. His observations, applicable to the County of Antrim as they were, were in special manner applicable also to the citizens ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1015 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AND HOLIDAY FUND FOR

... every yard of this ‘had been fortified to the utmost extent which German ingenuity could devise. The battle of the Somme has been compared with the battle of Verdun, and the British in one month have made twice or thrice the progress which the Germans were ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1192 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... Captain )-13ili Jane. This is th. 104th week of the war, while to-day (Saturday) is the 159th day of Verdun battle, and 29th day of the Battle of the Somme. ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: Peebles News
County: Peeblesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1104 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE GREAT WAR

... the west. The 'Times says of the situation: Though no one, and, least of all. Sir Douglas Haig, expects the great battle of the Somme to pertake of the character of a supreme decision, yet it has already reached dimensions and nssumed a po form which ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1312 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE .MISSION CHURCH

... Seton-road, received the news on Thursday that her youngest son Alfred, a private in the Royal Fusiliers, was killed in the battle of the Somme on July Ist. was aged 19, and he with three friends was among the first to join the Army, in 1914. Of these his cousin ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: Middlesex Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1657 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LOCAL NOTES

... the greatest assets of the future of their country. Their loss in the conduct of the groat infantry attacks in the Battle of the Somme would appear, a casual valuation, to place their worth no higher than that of the average intellect which, backed by ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: Gloucester Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1898 | Page: 4 | Tags: none