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BATTLE NORTH OF SOMME IS QUIETER

... BATTLE NORTH OF SOMME 18 QUIETER. south of Somme Our Troops Were Pressed From Mezieres. pEMUM HELD THROUGH SHARP FISHTING. BRITISH OFFICIAL TO-DAY. G.H.Q.. France, Saturday, 10.55 am. i NORTH OF THE SOMME onlyjlocal actions have taken place. SOUTH OF ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1918
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Sir ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE S HISTORY OF THE WAR

... FRANCE AND FLANDERS, VoL DL, 1913, in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gives the first detailed account of the gigantic Battle of the Somme. Uniform with above : The British Campaign France and Flanders, VoL L, 1914 (Third edition)— “ The British Campaign ...

Published: Friday 15 March 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 74 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PRESUMED TO BE DEAD

... now officially behoved to dead The other son. Private John Findlater,'Roval Warwickshire Regiment, was missing at the battle of tbe Somme, 1 July. nine months later was presumed to le dead. ...

Published: Thursday 14 March 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 67 | Page: 3 | 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

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

A War of Movement

... after short intervals, by Allied troops. It true that interval between the battles of the Somme, in which we pushed the Germane out of their very strong positions, and the battles which are raging to-day is interval of good deal more than a year, but this ...

Published: Tuesday 26 March 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 548 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MAGNIFICENT DEFENCE

... greatest pressure of the enemy our line in those desolate tracts’ Picardy, across which the Germans retreated after the battles of the Somme Bare neither his tactical nor territorial gains can of much value, and would almost appear possible that spectacular ...

Published: Monday 25 March 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1151 | Page: 2 | Tags: none