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BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... BATTLE OF THE SOMME During the Battle of the Somme, particularly during the opening week of the bombardment, the wheels of the guns were literally touching each other on a ten miles' front. Guns of all calibres were firing their salvos without ceasing ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1931
Newspaper: Hampshire Advertiser
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 405 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

DEATH FROM WAR WOUNDS 20 YEARS AFTER BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... DEATH FROM WAR WOUNDS 20 YEARS AFTER BATTLE OF THE SOMME A SOLDIEU who served in the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry has died from war wounds 20 years after. Ile is Archibald John Kempster, b - year-old painter and decorator,' 'living at Little Eingshill ...

LAST TRIBUTE

... Advertiser,” passed away, after much suffering as the result of complications arising from wounds received in tiie Battle of the Somme, was borne to rest, on Friday afternoon, .by his comrades of the Post (>ttice Staff. The four postmen, in uniform, who ...

Havant

... broke out enlisted again and served in France, being invalided out through Illness. His son George was killed in the battle of the Somme. ...

Published: Tuesday 12 May 1936
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 53 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE TRAGIC HILL OF THIEPVAL

... action which is known to War records the Battle of the Somme of July, 1916. was the great art ion. extending ovrt months of lime, wbieli indicated to world the first idea the new wnriart. In other days battles were fought won between the ri the ?t:n ana ...

Published: Monday 23 November 1931
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 270 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

300 SEE WAR FILM

... 300 SEE WAR FILM About three hundred cx-Servicemen and lew women attended the showing of the war film. Battle of the Somme, at Lancing and Sompting British Legion headquarters on Monday night. The film, lent by the Imperial War Museum, gave a vivid ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1939
Newspaper: Worthing Herald
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 69 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

IN MEMORIAM

... memory of l'u:lo;uk 7Hogben, 72nfid __Lieut. Bu. South Staffordshire Regt., killed in action near Le Transloy, during the Battle of the Somme, on October 23rd, 1916. Aged 22 years. M. KIRKPATRICK.—In cherished remembrance of a dear husband and father, Herbert ...

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... After crying in the Army Chaplains' Department, be went out to France in 1915, and was in the battle of the Somme, the battle of Arras, the third battle of Ypres. Dater he was chaplain to a brigade and senior chaplain of the 30th Division. Be was mentioned ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1930
Newspaper: Westerham Herald
County: Kent, England
Type: | Words: 126 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A SOLEMN OCCASION

... to the memorv of 73,000 officers and men who fell in the Battle of the Somme, and who have no known graves —the missing of the Somme. I make apology for speaking exclusively to-night of the battle itself. That is what are here for, take it. valour, endurance ...

Published: Saturday 13 August 1932
Newspaper: Bexhill-on-Sea Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 238 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STREET BEITIIC. Ex-Soldier Fined at Rantogate

... STREET BEITIIC. Ex-Soldier Fined at Rantogate. An ex-Bervice man wb.a lost a kg in the battle of the Somme in July. ISIS and who appeared in the dock an crutches. was tined CIO by magistrates on Friday for street betting He was Robert Brown Young. aged ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1937
Newspaper: East Kent Times and Mail
County: Kent, England
Type: | Words: 434 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

GALLIPOLI HEROES

... part in the Suvla Bay landing and suffered heavy losses. ter the division went to France and took part in the battle of the Somme. the battle of Messines, and the third hattle of Ypres. memorial tham. Dr. E. M. Blackit. will be dedicated hv the Bishop ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1935
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 130 | Page: 5 | Tags: none