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... a period of strenuous recruiting work, procee d ed to France with the Royal Welch Fusiliers. He was wounded in the Battle of the Somme in 1918, and was subsequently attached to the Royal Engineers as roads and transport district officer. and was appointed ...

Published: Monday 26 November 1923
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 170 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HIS FATHER'S RING

... YEARS. A ring, given tinder dramatic stances, hag been the gleam of solving it aeven-yeara2ld war mystery. After the Battle of the Somme in Jule. lila, Donald Rooker. of the London Ride Brigade, the son of lire. Poo'ter, of Borough-road, Isleworth, woe ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1923
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 259 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LOWEST PRICES ALWAYS. The Bon Marche

... of military service. He served throughout the Great War, and was mount at the famous battle of Maniets Wood. at the commencement of the disastrous Battle of the Somme. Nest week The Cabaret Girl should appeal strongly to patrons of the Lyceum, Theatre ...

Published: Friday 21 September 1923
Newspaper: South Wales Gazette
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 345 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

ROLL OF HONOUR. d,coruen *it 'stria men. IN MEMORIAM. Ever•loVing and Affeetimate li egoo ry of Cecil Thomas ..

... St. George s alt .ew; Secoud-lientenant the Sherwood who. severely wounded at (Battle of the Somme) 7th & sober 1916, fell in action, mortally near Obalvelt (third Battle of on 72nd October. 1917. and died the wi wg morning, aged 25. valiant heart. to ...

Published: Tuesday 23 October 1923
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1010 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

IMI ORR MILITARY

... 'During the Great War he joined the London Scottish, and in 1916 awarded the B.C. for bravery in the geld. Following the Battle of the Somme he went to the Senior Officers' School, Aldershot, and in 1917 was appointed second in command of the 17th (Glamorgan ...

Published: Friday 26 January 1923
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1273 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

THE FUNERAL

... known as the Old British Line, in face of heavy machine-gun fire. Again, at Mameta Wood, curing the long-drawn-out Battle of the Somme, he showed conspicuous courage and devotion. Wounded in the side by shrapnel, he was being carried off on a stretcher ...

Published: Friday 06 July 1923
Newspaper: South Wales Gazette
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 1477 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

i ill I • I I 1111 1.1 11

... old at the time of his death, had seen service in the Great War, during which time lie was badly gamed in one of the battles on the Somme. Re had only been ailing just over a week, and in spite of medial skill and tender Ranting, be succumbed to complications ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1923
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1049 | Page: 20 | Tags: none