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THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. Srr Doucnas Haig’s marrative of the | Battle of the Somme comes at the right moment. - Never was a sober military estimate of the contending forces on the battlefields of Europe more needed in quarters which have hitherto, un ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1917
Newspaper: Sussex Daily News
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 408 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. In his sixteenth Volume Nehtou's Histonr the War Mr. John Buchan deals with the Battle of the Somme, which he carefully examines in five stages, and places liefore the public for the .first time whole the connected narrative. ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1917
Newspaper: Bexhill-on-Sea Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 156 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Thu Battle of the Somme

... Thu Battle the Somme. The more the Battle of the Somme is considered the greater it appears, whether one studies it in Sir Douglas Haig’s dispatch or in its effect on German policy. When it began the military situation was critical. At Verdun the French ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1917
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

DEATKS

... missing, now presumed killed whilst leading his men in an attack on the enemy’s lines mnear Le Transloy, during the Battle of the Somme, on October 23rd, 1916; aged 22 years. ¢“He died the noblest death a mart may die, Fighting for God and Right and Liberty;— ...

WHY THE GERMANS RETIRED. A SEQUEL TO THE SOMMZ BATTLE,

... withdrawing in such a condition without the risk of one day being outflanked. The battle from Arras to the Oise is, therefore, a consequence of the battle of the Somme which led the enemy to recognize the necessity of retiring. If the Germans have decided ...

Published: Wednesday 21 March 1917
Newspaper: Sussex Daily News
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

D.C.M. FOR WITNEY MAN

... has been awarded the I).C.M. for gallant conduct in the field. He waa wounded for the third time last July in the battle of the Somme. He is making a good recovery. ...

LORD DERBY’3 BROTHER HONOURED

... our French Allies, in recognition of the gcod work done by the King's Liverpool Brigade, which he commanded in the battle of the Somme. ...

Published: Monday 12 February 1917
Newspaper: Sussex Daily News
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 49 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SIDLEY SNIPER MISSING

... Private F. W. Nichols Royal Sussex Regiment, whose home is 4, Belmont-terrace, Sidley, and who was last seer in the Battle of the Somme where was awarded the Military Medal, we are informed that he was the brother-in-law Mrs. Nichols and not tho Mr. and ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1917
Newspaper: Bexhill-on-Sea Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 55 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

IN MEMOBIAM

... IN MEMOBIAM. GAi,E.—ln proud and every loving memory of Eifleman Georg© Ralph Gale, who was mortally wounded in the Battle of the Somme, September 16th, and died on September 19th, 1916. Oh true, brave heart; God blow thee Whereso’er God’s wide universe ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1917
Newspaper: Hampshire Advertiser
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 50 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WHAT THE GERMAN “OFFICIAL’’ DID NOT SAY

... were asking, them what lessons should be diawn from the Battle of the Somme. Accopding to the report seized from the Cers nians, M., Barres says :-—— ; At the beginning of the Baitle of the Somme wo placed the Germans in positions of extreme peril until ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1917
Newspaper: Sussex Daily News
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 318 | Page: 5 | Tags: none