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BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The battalion was mobilised August 2, 1914, and was at first engaged south and east coast training and garrison duty. On Men* 22 of tlie following year it landed at Havre part tile 46th Division. It was ait once hurried to the salient ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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aBTOTHSE BATTLE OP THS SOMME,

... aBTOTHSE BATTLE OP SOMME, The attack launched this morning shows that determined to preserve the initiative and to give the enemy rest. It follows very closely upon the heels the German retirements announce! last week-end across the and the east Albert ...

Published: Thursday 08 August 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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Tho death from ©ever© illness, following upon wound? received in the first battle of the Somme in July, * -i,

... Tho death from ©ever© illness, following upon wound? received in the first battle of the Somme in July, * -i, has taken place at the residence of his father-in-law in Kenelm Rd., Small Heath, of Capt. Harry Martin (Territorial). Gap tain Jones was mobilised ...

Published: Friday 06 December 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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SEE- AVS PREPARE FOR FURTHER RETREAT

... was pushed beck what was practically the line on winch Settled after the first battle of the Marne in 1914, and which was substantially the asms before the Battle of the Somme. That line dropped from the north Albert, beginning bend east little came that ...

Published: Monday 12 August 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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THE THANKS OP THE EMPIRE

... men under your command their warmest congratulations on the great triumph achieved by the Allied eras this the third battle of the Somme. The British Empire sends its heartfelt thanks to yon and your moat gallant troops. ...

Published: Thursday 15 August 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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EETKEAT TO HINIXEKBUBC LINE?

... the serious J-ortage of men from which the Gerinan Army is now tofftnng render such retirement cot impossible. NEW BATTLE OF THE SOMME. ...

Published: Thursday 22 August 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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FURTHER ADVANCE ON

... are again in oar pomaioa. The edruice was eleo the soothers portion of the battle 'rout fienke tire Somme. troops took Gappy and made progress east the Tillage. North of the Somme they entered Sounse. Farther north English troops pushed forward the direction ...

Published: Tuesday 27 August 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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AMERICA'S PART IN THE WAR

... public. It is not good tome war films have had, parfacnlarly those vivid ones which last year showed phases, of the battle of the Somme, hut it visuaHees America’s effort from tie transport of troops to the use those troops the battlefields of Prance. ...

Published: Thursday 08 August 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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WHY LUDENDORFF DELAYS

... dedaring that in the battle of the Somme this yea/ the Allies had 75 infantry and fix cavalry divisions engaged. did not know whether these figures were correct, but the Germans themselves placed Over divisions into line other battles the propertk,n was ...

Published: Friday 12 July 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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looix goaroom

... Green War Cocaine tee with twehe War Snripft CertifiaeAea Mai an Alumioated addreae reongnutioa the D.C.M. the ftrat battle of the Somme, A awn lalp baa been made to Lenoe-dorpoeiai Eecd. Donhey, another Oreeta Green boy, to tfae M.G, Corpa, who gained ...

Published: Monday 11 November 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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HUMBERT’S ADVANCE

... deemiciion order to prepare for future inroads into the defensive system. According to this journal the methods of the battle of the Somme 1916 may effectively renewed with the difference that infantry will not precede the march, hut that the land ironclads ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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LOCAL ROLL OF HONOUR

... suffered from rheumatic fever and trench fever. His younger brother, Ernest, who joined the same time, lost leg the battle of the Somme 1916. Pte. Harry Cross (IB), D.0.L.1., of Mr. J. Gross, Z, Milton Grove, Hooper Street, Dudley Road. Previously employed ...

Published: Friday 23 August 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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