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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
Type: | Words: 300 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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
Type: | Words: 284 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ROLL OP HONOUR

... death we do the came ;}* wWo •nd Frank (In fiakmirs). S»AiLT.—In kmn* memory o* Lanreoorporal Jtonee Salt killed the battle of the Somme, Job 8. 1915; aleo hie brother Harry Balt, 1918. Too ln lif« to be foreotton death. Will never be forgot ten by dad ...

Published: Monday 08 July 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 347 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AERIAL WARFARE

... in case the Germans were com- pelled to fall beck. Then he went to Serbia. first appearance on this:front was at the battle of the Somme. During this he commended the “second German army. Later he went to command the fifth army in front of Verdun Now he ...

Published: Wednesday 20 March 1918
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 376 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Dogged British Pluck

... and .set on lire. I trench took back, however, and it was on the edge of the British line until the beginning of the battle of tho Somme. Then tho inhabitants begun to trickle hack, and lately some ot* its streets had been resuming almost tlniir normal ...

Published: Thursday 28 March 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 363 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BIRMINGHAM MEN’S DISTINCTIONS

... the Birmingham Territorials on the outbreak of war, went France March, 1915, was wounded in the opening stages the battle of the Somme in 1916, and returned to Prance in the following December. Private James Harrington, M.G.C., who has been awarded the ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 475 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LOCAL BOLL OP HONOUR

... court, bmwe, Bordealey Street, Birmingham. enlisted k September, 1914, and wee previously wounded July, 1916, in tbe battle of the Somme. Before the war was employed Measm. Pools, 15, Carrs Lena. Private Frederick E. Lucas (19), Wiks Regt., second •on Mr ...

Published: Thursday 16 May 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 403 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PLEASURE TO GO ON BEAT

... he lost his eldest son, killed in action at the battle of the Somme in July, 1916. Ue never spared himself, and his constitution, undermined by 3} years of most incessant toil, had little strength to battle with the which overcame him. He gave his life ...

Published: Thursday 07 November 1918
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 544 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEATHS

... l’y _ln loriag memory Trim (-.tod City Batteboah our youngest oon, who ontvred etenwil life, repu-mbor rtlfi »t the Battle of the Somme. ■■ Mnke him numbered with Thy .mints glory —3#, BS.h« Komi. West Bromwroh, KNOTT. —Not* rappel on* k rotre «oaT«ur ...

Published: Tuesday 03 September 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 425 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ALLIES’ GREAT TRIUMPH

... under your command their warmest congratulations on the great triumph achieved by the Allied arms in this the third battle of the Somme. The British Empire sends its heartfelt thanks to you and your most gallant troopt. ALLIES economy troops. BRITISH “HEAVIES” ...

Published: Thursday 15 August 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 552 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GsaniN Ormrsm Slackens

... Butin) —We have now reached the sixth day «f the battle. The enemy far is unable to record any decision. It has been possible for him, it is true, retake portion of the ground lost daring the battle of the Somme, but to the present in *- way interfered with ...

Published: Wednesday 27 March 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 594 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HEAVY GUNFIRE

... RENEWAL ATTACK WIDER FRONT EXPECTED. Paris, Tuesday. Reuters Expert Commentator writes;— fresh pause has intervened the battle on the Somme front, which wag only animated, yesterday by reciprocal bombardments. There was indeed infantry engitgement, but a renewal ...

Published: Wednesday 10 April 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 575 | Page: 1 | Tags: none