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FRASCO-AMERICAN CAPTURES

... CUNINGHAM MEMORIAL CHURCH, CULLYBACKEY, The annual sermon connection with the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne and in memory of the fallen heroes of the Somme, was preached on Sunday evening last, in the Cuningham Memorial Church, Cullybackey, , under ...

Published: Friday 05 July 1918
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1144 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE CALL TO ULSTER

... last, the eve of Jul• Ist, the second anniversary of the memorable charge of the Ulster Division at the opening of the battle of the Somme. was observed in Belfast and throughout the Province. In that splendid deed of arms the Thirty-sixth Division left half ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1918
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1156 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BALLYMENA MEN ON ACTIVE SBRV[UE. ROLL™OF HONOUR. NORTH IRISH HORSE

... Ballymena. He icined un on the for‘mation of the Ulster Division, and was wounded on Ist July of last year at the battle of the Somme. Belore enlisting he was in the employment of Mossr«. Smith & Co., Ballymena. His brother, Private Robert Thompson, ...

Published: Saturday 18 May 1918
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1118 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES

... instrqctor in the Officers’ Training Corps, Rcigate, Surrey. is a son of Canon Rarpes. Ballycastlc, and was wounded in tho battle of tbe Somme. Lieutenant A. H. Armstrong. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. (Belfast) has been accepted for the Indian Army. MILITARY ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1918
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1033 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

OFFICER CASUALTIES

... and was for a year and tialf in France and through the battle of the Somme with the Ulster Division. Having obtained his oommiasion, was attached to the Irish Division, and was through the battle of Cambrai. Subsequently he volunteered for the Royal Air ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1918
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 887 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE SOLICirOR-OKNERAL’S SPEECH

... realise who their real friends were. They were beginning to realise that the sacrifices the men who died for them at tiie Battle of the Somme were not in vain. What had become of the 36 opponents whom they used have to meet the House of Commons? had gone like ...

Published: Friday 06 December 1918
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1227 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE {.ATE MRS. BLAIR EOYD

... Seymour Street. Lisburn. This well-known officer was wounded the bead and taken prisoner the Gormans tlu> opening of the battle of the Somme Ist July, 1916, and was repatriated iu September, 1917. His son. s-econd-Lieutenaiil G. P. Jeukius, K.K.A., was killed ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1918
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 992 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A NEFARIOUS SYSTEM EXPOSED. SINN FEINER SENT TO JAIL

... the announcement RIR CONAN DOYLE'S TRIBUTE. was received with ai3olatnation. In the course of a detailed story of the battle of the Somme, which commences in the current number of the Strand Magazine, Sir A. Conan Doyle pays an eloquent tribute t the ...

Published: Saturday 04 May 1918
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1274 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SOME RECENT BOOKS

... British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1916” (London; Hodder & Stoughton; net). It is almost entirely taken up with the battle of the Somme and its pendant the Ancre operations. The special feature this work, as have noticed in reviewing the earlier volumes ...

Published: Tuesday 07 May 1918
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1262 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STORMY WEATHER

... 's atrateeie retreat eta • wurpeire. The weather favoured the sentry of the withdreamt which wan the revolt of tLe Battle of the Somme and prethution Allied offensive Thciemy withdrew IsopiAg to return again. and i ndeed he !id return. We took only • ...

Published: Tuesday 10 September 1918
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1229 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MAY MAGAZINES,

... Dovle’s history of the war is resumed with the first connected and detailed account of the battle 01 the Somme in 1916, which he describes as the greatest one-day battle ever known in. history.’* have already quoted fine description of the glorious gallantry ...

Published: Tuesday 07 May 1918
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1272 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BACK TO THE OLD LINE,

... evacuated when he left the Somme 1 vear ago. To-day there was some fighting on the east of the High Wood. Germav guus were shelling Fricoort Wood and village, :nd Marmetz, their old Jine at the heginning of the first battle of the Somme. It was rot a particalarly ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1918
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1348 | Page: 6 | Tags: none