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AMERICA THRILLED

... It is also no violation of the censorship to announce that the American Government fully realises that the second battle of the Somme may continue for some time, and that the American forces may possibly the means of tipping the scale. Every officer ...

Published: Tuesday 02 April 1918
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 211 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LEEDS ROLL OF HONOUR

... received. His parents, who reside at 264, Harehills-lane, Leeds, have two other sons serving, and fourth eon fell in the battle of the Somme July Ist last year. KEIGHLEY SOLDIER ENTERTAINERS RAISE - FUNDS FOR THEIR HOSPITAL ' ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1918
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 181 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Now Reported Killed. An Adventurous Career

... Gallipoli, was invabded home wrh enteric. Soon after his recovery, he went to France and in the later stages of the Battle of the Somme, was wounded and awarded the Military Cross. Ho was in the Royal Air Service when, & month ago, uhe incdent oocurred ...

Published: Tuesday 15 October 1918
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 214 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BRITISH ACROSS THE HINDENBURG LINE EAST OF ARRAS

... THE SOMME NOW AND 1916, PROGRESS MORE RAPID AND LESS COSTLY, London, Monday. It is interesting to compare the results of the recent fighting on the British and French fronte in the Somme ai’ea with those achieved in th© first battle of the Somme. From ...

Published: Tuesday 27 August 1918
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 954 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

1916

... the Kaiser’sn” peace offer” with contempt. The military position had sharply contrasted bright and dark sides. The Battle of (he Somme had shown that the strongest enemy positions could captured by our troops, but had not revealed a quick way driving ...

Published: Monday 23 December 1918
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LUXEMBURG RAID

... reports;— April >am and mist greatly »tei' fered with operations tho air. aeroplanes none the less reported the grea? the battle south the Somme, and fired into the enemy’s troops Of Gorman machine* appeared on thii part of the battiofront six wei-e our at‘r>plan ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1918
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The Double Advance

... advance by the British both north and south of the Somme seems likely to sweep past both sides of the famous ridge between Albert and the Somme, which we attacked frontr ally in the 1916 battle of the Somme. Little news reached London last evening from the ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1918
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 275 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

IEIIIEIB

... 'Mahe meth. lir •A. Conan Doyle's History of the War is temised With the Snit connected and detailed misled of the Battle of the Somme in 1911, which he asecriVes as the greatest one day batik ever known in the world's history. PRXHTERS' t9l4.—This ...

NOTES ON THE WAR. (By a Special Correspondent.) The French attack yesterday between Soissons and Chateau ..

... ground that has been taken from it during an offensive that in prtigress. These distinctions arc not hard and fast- Our Battle of the Somme, for example, was in a sense a counter-offensive, for one its main purposes was to relieve the pressure on Verdun. Again ...

Published: Friday 19 July 1918
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 279 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WHILE LONDON SLEFIPA

... set on fire. The French took it back, however, and it was on the edge of the British line until the beginning of the Battle of the Somme. Then the Inhabitants began to trickle back, and lately some of its streets bad been reemrdng almost their normal aipstranee ...

Published: Thursday 28 March 1918
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 304 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EARLY VICTORIAN

... literature have shared in the Great Sacrifice. History nas not been exempt, and conspicuous example was the death, in the Battle of the Somme, of Lieut. Mark ilovell, .Lecturer in Military History Manchester University. Lieut. Hoveil was only twenty-eight, it ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1918
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CANADIAN’ HECORO MONTH

... that 1918. says: In 1917 retreat was surprise. The weather favoured secrecy of withdrawal, which was result of the battle of the Somme, and a precaution against the Allied offensive. The enemy withdrew hoping to return agate, and, indeed, did return. ...

Published: Tuesday 10 September 1918
Newspaper: Huddersfield Daily Examiner
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 288 | Page: 3 | Tags: none