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Published: Monday 11 November 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
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Deceased was well known in the district on acconnt of his atidotic abilities, for he was a well known runner,

... Leonard Seeger, of Huntington Terrace Road, Chadsmoor, who was awarded the Military Medal for devotion to duty at the battle of the Somme in Sepember, 1916, when he went forward under heavy shell fire with the infantry and kept them in touch with the battery ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1918
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 444 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

PRIVATE L. C. NEWBURY, MX., KILLED

... Bietby Co/limy Company a few weeks when he *milted. His brother. Private Arthur Mattkews. was killed in action in the battle of the Somme on July lat. 11111 LANCE-CORPORAL J. R. AISEBROOK DIES FROM PNEUMONIA. Mrs. Aliebrook. 27. Canal Street, Burton, has ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1918
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
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FORESTRY. DISTRICT

... ensuing year. and Bro. 11. Toy. of 11 , ;g -- maw. who won the Military Medal by devo- ley. S.C.R. Tioit duty at lilt. battle of rile Somme. on Th.. Anti itnri siibmitted a statement of l August With, 1916. Also to Tranter. sort - tants which was considered ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1918
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 594 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

OUR ALLIES

... would sing jolly comic songs to the others to cheer themeip in hospital. Ile went through the siege of Verdun and the battle of the Somme, and every time he got. leave he came back to the hospital to look us up and tell us that he still kept smiling As the ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1918
Newspaper: Dudley Chronicle
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: | Words: 945 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

CORPORAL DILWORTH HOME FROM GERMANY. STORY OF HIS IMPRISONMENT

... During, the battle of the Somme the divisioft to which his battalion, the 27th Warwicks, was attached, and an Australian Division, were ordered on July 16th, 1916, to mukke an attack on another part of the front to hold the Bocfie from the Somme. The 2/7th ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1918
Newspaper: Kenilworth Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 799 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WOULD HAVE STARVED BUT FOB PARCELS

... Corpl. E. Dilworth. New Row. is the first Kenilworth man to reach home from Germany. was taken prisoner during the battle of the Somme. Corpl. Dilworth gives the ' now familiar account of the wretchedness the food given the men in prison camps in Germany ...

BULGARIA DECLARES WAS

... the French held their ground throogh fiv« months of incessant battles. The German, who had budgeted for a loss of 300,000 men, lost aOu.UOO 600,000, and when Haig's battle for the Somme heights opened July 1 the General cut i ...

Published: Tuesday 12 November 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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THREE BROTHERS CHAMBERS WOUNDED

... was employed hy Outran, and Co., Woodville. it will alai be remembered that gheis •Prirnte W. Chauila re. wounded at the Somme Battle in Joy. Mir while serving in the Leicerter Regiment. RS prevent serving in the Channel lam, and prior to the war employed ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1918
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 1067 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

[Corysiont.]

... strategy. As le our fashion, we began by mistakes and failures, for it is a just saying that Britain loses battles but wins wars, or rather loses most battles except the last. But in every case we here retrieved our unsuccess, and this is a stronger proof of ...

Published: Monday 11 November 1918
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 1338 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

s4LEN NT le I'llo%

... recalls that the first Mayor of the new County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent, Major Cecil Wedgwood, fell in action, at the Battle df the Somme; but there is scarcely a !toile in North Staffordshire that has not proud and tender personal memories. Those kith and ...

Published: Friday 29 November 1918
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 1256 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BY COLONEL JOHN BUCHAN

... abroad on thei preparation ’’ and, if possible, new troops various fronts. In August, 1918, eight and i edch stag©. Battle of the Somme a half million men had been recruited was tho result, where the major part was from the armed forces of the Crown played ...

Published: Thursday 14 November 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1809 | Page: 4 | Tags: none