ON BATTLEFIELD

... . Looking-glass Charlock, white and flower. yellow. Hemp-nettle. Goosefool. Sow-thistle. The WOII , over which the Battle of the Somme was fought in the late summer and autumn of 1916, was during the winter and spring of 1917 a dreary waste of mud and ...

Published: Sunday 13 January 1918
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 446 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

EARLS BARTON

... accepted.— Mr. H. A. Speight, son of the headmaster who has been discharged from the Army owing wounds received at the battle of the Somme, was appointed assistant master at a salary of £lOO. HOSPITAL WEEK COMMITTEE The annual general meeting the Hospital ...

Published: Friday 25 January 1918
Newspaper: Northampton Mercury
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 379 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Including

... John M'Cormilk of the Australian Imperial has been awarded the Military Medal for conspicuous services rendered at the battle of the Somme. Private John WOciranick is the youngest 'Jon of the late Mr Hugh M'Clurmick of happy memory in Port-Glasgow. He was ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1918
Newspaper: Port-Glasgow Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 401 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Poet as War Correspondent: Mr.. John Masefield's Old Front Line

... Mr. Masefield's detailed and poignant description of The Old Front Line --viewed as the base from which the Great Battle of the Somme proceeded-- without emotion. The book is mainly geographical, but the Spirit of Place palpitates through it. In every ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1918
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 528 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

Removals & Storage. ALBT• BEATON, Hammersmith, W. 6

... to save the country from the bitterest engagements, one of which was Hun, bavi how returned from the war the great battle of the Somme It broken in th and maimed in body, here thet he beeame the are desetving of ell the help we cam give of the Military ...

Published: Friday 11 January 1918
Newspaper: West London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 493 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

jfc RIFLE WAKERS-

... Freytag-Lonng. / hoven, of the German Imperial Staff. I The Old Front Line (Heinemann, 2s. net). The beginning of the battle of the Somme. I John Masefield. International Military Digest (November* Windsor Magazine (January). Ayres Cricket I Companion for ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1918
Newspaper: Army and Navy Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 433 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

SIN TIRE Office

... Battalion. Col. Jackson, who this week Home to Alnwick, includes in his experiences the 2nd Battle at Ypres, Battle of the Somme, Battle of Arras, and Battle of Paschendaele. ...

the roll of honour

... Belfast. He now the Second General Western Hospital, Manchester, suffering from trench fever. He was severely wounded the Battle of the Somme July. 1916, whilst serving as sergeant the .C.\. s. BARK AND FILE CASUALTIES. Baiter, Rim. R-LB.. a). LUlipnt Street ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1918
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 404 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FALL FROM A BALLOON. IN RICHMOND PARK

... Loughton, Essex, ghat evidence of identification. son had been in the Army since August, 1915, and was wounded during the battle of the Somme in August, 1916. Since then he had been training in the Kite Balloon Section of the R.F.O. in Richmond Park. Capt. Oliver ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1918
Newspaper: Richmond Herald
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 490 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Carrying On after the First Hundred Thousand

... Carrying On aftei the First Hundred Thousand. From the Battle of Loos to the Battle of the Somme, The Junior Sub., Ian Hay, carries on with The Carrying On after the First Hundred Thousand (Blackwood). Gone were the days, he says, when sitting close ...

Published: Wednesday 23 January 1918
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 807 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

AUSTRIA'S PLIGHT

... various stages the campaign. following its most leftward course we see where it stood in 1916 before the commencement the Battle of the Somme, and, forking away near its extremity, get the alignment at the close of that year after the capture of Thiepval, Fricourt ...

Published: Monday 28 January 1918
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 484 | Page: 2 | Tags: none