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... Force, with , Con.gratulatory address on being awarded the Military Medal for rescuing wounded under fire during the battle of the Somme. Pie. Hackman, whose home is at 64, Springhead Road, has been gassed, and is just completing his sick leave. At - next ...

THE SUBMARINE MENACE

... hanged, and that the Boehm were aiming at the 'ual we have been striving so hard to attain since the beginning of the battle of the Somme. At the end, the enemy would have no more to show for his efforts and his appalling losses than a more or lees big dent ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1918
Newspaper: Newcastle Daily Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 723 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE OLD FRONT LINE. By John Masefield. (London : William Heinemann). The author has written delightfully very ..

... ware have ceased, we make our pilgrimage to France and visit the historic ground where was the Old Front Line when the Battle of the Somme began. Mr. Masefield reminds that the ground will not for ever, or even for long, preserve the aspect of war, and certainly ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1918
Newspaper: Army and Navy Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1353 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

HIS FIGHTING RECORD

... story of its gallant stand against the German hordes in the that led to the first battle Vpres is familiar most people. At Neuye Chapelle, corps bore the brunt of the battle, and played a conspicuous part in the Loos attack/ In the spring 1916 Sir Ilengy ...

Published: Wednesday 20 February 1918
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 752 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WEST LONDON PRESS. FEBRUARY li>, 1918 THE LEAD ORDER

... our national prospects after the fare being at the Battle of Loos. He also went direction. I got well on my off side in case War. Be said the War could notfailtorntuu.ee through the Battle of the Somme, acting asaistant should let go and ran towards my ...

Presentation to Palterton Soldier. An entire absence of military display gave an informal touch to the ..

... Comforts Fund, S. Thorneycroft, Doe Lea. nce-Corpi. Booth won his decoration f. spicuous bravery and devotion to duty Battle of the Somme, at the beg . • June, 1916. A small party of the ds, surrounded by the enemy, refused ld, and bombed its way - back ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1918
Newspaper: Derbyshire Times
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 686 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HERE AND THERE

... in despatches for gallant conduct at the first battle of Ypres. His remaining brother, the Hon. W. A. D. Continued overleaf.) (Continued from page 684.) Parnell, M.C., was killed at the battle ot the somme, .September, 1916. Lord Congleton is in the Navy ...

WHAT THE ITALIANS THliNii OF OTJR HIGHLANDERS

... achievements in the present war . They fought superbly in tie fust and third battles of Ypres , at Fcstubert , at Loos , at Arras , and on the Somme . At the first battle of Ypres , where the English Army , incredibly inferior in numbers , guns , and ...

Published: Monday 04 February 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1374 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Border News Brief. Wheat has been sown 35 per cent, more land in Berwickshire this year than last. a meeting

... resented with- the Military Cross by the ing in London. The honour was conferred upon him for distinguished service in the battle the Somme. He has also been awarded the D.C.M. The collections the associations affiliated to the Dumfriesshire War Savings Committee ...

Published: Thursday 21 February 1918
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1131 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Million !

... Yorkshire troops. Stretcher Bearer Joseph Williams, Welsh Guards, son of Mr. and Mrs. Williams, was killed in action in the battle of the Somme on September 16th. 1916. Another son. Sergi. William Williams. of the Motor Transport, is an old soldier serving in ...

Published: Friday 08 February 1918
Newspaper: Glamorgan Gazette
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 715 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

What the Italians think of our Highlanders,

... magnificent achievements in the present war. They fought superbly in the first and third battles of Ypres, at Festubert, at Loos, at Arras, and on the Somme, At the first battle of Ypres, where the English Army, incrédibly inferior in numbers, guns, and munitions ...

With British War Correspondents on the Western Front: How they Collaborate in the Gathering of War News (see p. ..

... of War News see p. 187) Mr. H. Perry Robinson, war correspondent for The Times and author of The Turning Point-- the Battle of the Somme, has written a very interesting account of the war correspondent at work in a recent issue of The Nineteenth Century ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1918
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1204 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs