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THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. Sir, —If not ' too lute I would like the opportunity of replying to my critics whose letters you published a few days ago. Your correspondent, Mr. H. W. Smith, appears to doubt boua fides. May I inform Mr. Smith that I was never ...

Published: Monday 01 February 1932
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 310 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Commemorating the Battle of the Somme

... whether you will have your bedtime milk warm or cold. The Somme. JUNE is nearly over. and the first day of July remains a day of solemn significance. It is nineteen years since the Battle of the Somme was fought, but it will be more than another nineteen ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1935
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 699 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OUR LONDON ’PHONE: CENTRAL 9693 HISTORY’S ANSWER TO THE GRIM QUESTION: Was the Battle of the Somme

... LONDON ’PHONE: CENTRAL HISTORY’S ANSWER TO THE GRIM QUESTION: Was the Battle of the Somme A German gun buried in Lonage By W.L.A. TWENTY-TWO years after we fought the Battle of the Somme the official historians are now able to tell us what happened. It is ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1939
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 598 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PRONE. 309. SOMME MEMORIES.—The Chapeltown branch of the British Legion commemorated the battle of the Somme on ..

... PRONE. 309. SOMME MEMORIES.—The Chapeltown branch of the British Legion commemorated the battle of the Somme on Sunday by attendance at St. John's Parish Church. A. poppy wreath was placed on the war memorial in the church by Mr. E. Archer, vicepresident ...

SHEFFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 25. 1932. Letters to the Editor. THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. Sheffield ..

... SHEFFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 25. 1932. Letters to the Editor. THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. Sheffield Sir, —Your London Correspondent’s gentle protest is really futile. Whether he quotes the official historian or not is quite beside the point ...

Published: Monday 25 January 1932
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 623 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Battle of Somme Commemorated LEEDS BRITISH LEGION SERVICE On a day of wind and rain a thousand members the British

... Battle of Somme Commemorated LEEDS BRITISH LEGION SERVICE On a day of wind and rain a thousand members the British Legion paraded at Leeds War Memorial in The Headrow yesterday to pay tribute to their comrades who fell in the Battle of the Somme, July ...

IN AND ABOUT

... another three fields away. o The Battle of the Somme MEMORIES may be short, but I faney that some will be stirreq to-morrow by the date, July 1. For the first day of July brings again the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme eighteen years ago, when the ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1934
Newspaper: Huddersfield Daily Examiner
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 339 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SOMME MEMORIAL

... SOMME MEMORIAL Tribute to Leeds Pals’ Fellowship TWENTYONE YEARS after the Battle of the Somme, some 70 former members of the 15th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (the Leeds “Pals”) attended a memorial service to their fallen comrades, at Leeds Parish ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 182 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TALKS TO DISABLED

... TALKS TO DISABLED asked ex Private Maltoy. employed In the hand printing department, ho lost his right arm in the Battle of the Somme, how long had been at the ...

Published: Thursday 22 October 1936
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 30 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LEEDS INTEREST

... British War memorial which has been erected at Thiepval to commemorate the missing- in the Battle of the Somme. Among the units which suffered heavily in the Somme Battle, and for which this memorial has a special significance, was the Leeds Pals battalion—and ...