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A BINGLEY MEMORIAL

... was killed in action the Second Battle of Ypres, 11th May, 1915. aged years and that the rigfit panel: ?Also of Harold William Cottrell. Se'.-Lieut.. S, Lancashire Kegt., who was killed in action the Battle of the Somme, September, 1916, aged 18 years: ...

Published: Monday 01 October 1917
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SIR HI'BRRT COrCH IN COifUAND

... divisions into which cavalry formed ahorlly before the British Army burned north. In the summer of last year, when battle of lb# Somme opened. Sir Hubert mad* a temporary general and an army com raander, and ten months ago was raiaed his present permanent ...

Published: Tuesday 16 October 1917
Newspaper: Huddersfield Daily Examiner
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 256 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HAIG'S OAK TABLE

... may see the carved oak table from shelled Arras used Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig his head-quarters throughout the battle of the Somme. Upon this table every Army order - as signed, every report examined, and upon it the Commander-in-Chief wrote those ...

Published: Friday 05 October 1917
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 254 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Some Haig Relics

... see the carved oak table from shelled Nrras used Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig at his headquarters throughout the battle of the Somme. Upon this table every Army Order was signed, every report, examined, and upon it the Cpnmiander-in-Chief wrote those ...

Published: Thursday 04 October 1917
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 255 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

.-LOCAL CASUALTIES, . - - Corperal W. H, Gooder Corporal Wiiliam H. Gooder, West Riding Regiment, of Flints ..

... 22nd, aged mnjears. Heeiomed the Army in October, 1915, and was awarded the military Medal for rescuing wounded in the battle of the Somme. Driver H, Gravemor ‘ Driver Herbert Gravenor, Royal Field Ariillery, ~of 3, Vicar-street, Boothtown, was killed in ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1917
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 283 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A GALLANT HALIFAX IRISHMAN

... of Sept., 1914. He went through the heaviest fighting for two years and a half until wounded very severely at the battle of the Somme. He was one of the few remaining survivor's of French's Contemptible Army who held the Germans oat of Pans. Pte. O'Connor ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1917
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 319 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Beyond the Limits

... retired Feldwebel taken back on the outbreak of war, and appointed to a Landwehr battalion. Of those captured during the Battle of the Somme, 61 per cent, belonged either to Landwehr or reserve units. The FoldwebehLeutnant is officer with temporary commission ...

Published: Monday 08 October 1917
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 363 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Aerial Reprisals

... hud hitherto had ir.eaaa al! carrying our aerial warfare into enemy country. had already t>aid that ever since the battle of the Somme had a clear military superiority in the air. and small scale could have followed that up by bombing enemy centres they ...

FAMOUS DANCER AS SPY

... the oemeterv at Vincennes. The Paris 1 correspondent of the New York Herald says it was Mati Hari, who before tho battle of the Somme, obtained information regarding the Tanks *which orabled the Germans to prepare a special antitank weapon. When ...

Published: Tuesday 16 October 1917
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 473 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Britain's War Capacity Unimpaired

... shells 'hurled at the German positions had, spite of the submarine, been double the tonnage fired during the whole of the Somme battle. The result had been singularly successful and highly advantageous from every point of view, mora and material, in the ...

Published: Thursday 04 October 1917
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 459 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SHEFFIELD CHESS GHAT

... afterwards yuartermaster-Sergeant and then Company Sergeant-Major in the York and Lancaster Begiment, He was wounded in the battle of the Somme on July Ist last year, but has happily quite recovered. For some time past he has neen at cadet school in this .country ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1917
Newspaper: Star Green 'un
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 480 | Page: 3 | Tags: none