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TWICE WOUNDED

... ultimately to the Royal Warricks. He has just recently retched his 21st birthday, and was previously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. His eldest brother. Gunner William Fairgreaves, after having beer. discharged. has again been celed up for military ...

A NEW ATTACK DEVELOPING EAST OF ARRAS

... Dwight* Haig states that severe fighting took plane again astride the Somme and northward* from Albert to l'oyelles. Repeated attacks were made by the enemy eking the valley of the Somme and in the neighbourhood of Beaumont Hamel, Puisilanx, and Ildoyenneville ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1918
Newspaper: Sligo Independent
County: Sligo, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

VIISTINDAVIII FIGHTING

... nightrand to-day in the areas of Bapaume and Peronne and across the intervening country of the Somme, have slightly advanced their battle front. They caromed the Somme at some points below Peronne on rafts yesterday afternoon, after several ineffectual attempts ...

Published: Tuesday 26 March 1918
Newspaper: Newcastle Daily Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 270 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GRIMSBY AIRMAN KILLED

... the front. Lieut. Thompson (whose brother, Ralph, the well-known Grimsby Town amateur left winger), was killed in the battle of tho Somme, when -nother brother, Sidney, also received such injuries as entailed his discharge from the service), was 29 years ...

Published: Friday 16 August 1918
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 128 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LORD LUCAS'S GRAV

... changed hands since the first battle of the Somme. The grave, says the sergeant. is well kept, and bears n wooden cross, on which ig a German ascription, the literal translation being, Here rests he who, in an air battle on the 3rd November, 1816, was ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1918
Newspaper: Tewkesbury Register
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 137 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE FORFAR DISPATCH

... that time. James joined the army over three years ago, add was home three times, first with wounds received in the Battle of the Somme, and afterwards with trench feet and trench fever. He was a railway porter at Stirling when he enlisted. Mrs Mann has ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 1918
Newspaper: Forfar Dispatch
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 619 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE JUNE “ STRAND ’*

... work should soor. make him favourite with English readers. , , Sir A. Conan Dovl© conclude?* his detailed account the Battle of the Somme in 1916 the portion, of which attracted -much attention in. la.**t month’s emphasises its decisive importance the fitate ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1918
Newspaper: Whitby Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

QUEENSHAN DECORATED

... University of Belfast when joined the Ulster Division served-54 years in France, being present at the opening of lb© Battle of the Somme, the capture tho Mess'nos Ridge, and other actions. ram© home some four months ago to resume his medical studies, and ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1918
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 122 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CONFIDENCE IN THE ITALIA.N . FRONT

... at the time of Caporetto. One of the most striking documents that have appeared during the war, is his report on the Battle of the Somme in which he laid down the main principles of modern fighting. that is to say the principles of war as accepted at the ...

MILITARY MEDAL FOR KILSYTH CANADIAN. Sergeant Davkl Motherwell, of .the Canadian Infantry, who was on a visit ..

... miner l>efore emigrating to Canada between 6 and 7 years ago. He has spent two years in France, being wounded at the battle of the Somme. He came through the big fight at Passchcndaelc. Sergeant Motherwell has not told what he got the medal for. CASTLECARY ...

Published: Friday 01 February 1918
Newspaper: Kirkintilloch Gazette
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 135 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HOHENZOLLERN REDOUBT

... Hohenzollern Redoubt, where they had a particularly warm time owing to the heavy mizehene gun and natillery ire. In the battle of the Somme in 1916 the was in the fighting between ON illtsr. and Pozieres. The brigade to which they *ere attached actually took ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1918
Newspaper: Croydon Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The June * Strand.”

... work should soon make him a favourite with English readers. Sir A. Conan Doyle concludes his detailed account of the Battle of the Somme in 1916-— the first portion of which attracted so much attention in last month’s issue—ard emphasises its decisive ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1918
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 149 | Page: 4 | Tags: none