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... private school system. His more recent plays “Fasyvy Monev” (1947) are ‘Murder Hap ens” (1945) and He was wounded in the Battle of the Somme (1916) and. rejoin ing in the last war, was a Major the in France in 1939-40. = wie LORD ROSEBERY Twice bowled by Hirst ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1950
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 986 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Letters to the Editor (Continued from Page 4) The corporal question

... Corporal I can inform you that there is a rank in the British Army as three men were made King's corporals after the Battle of the Somme. The names of two were Corporal Kennedy and Corporal Dixon and they belonged Ito the First Battalion. Durham Light Infantry ...

Published: Friday 05 May 1950
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 208 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TRUMAN Tuesday. June 13,1950

... Boisselle in th e first battle of the Somme, the 8t h Battalion went into action with 25 officers. one medical officer, and 659 other ranks. Of this number less than 100 other ranks reported back to the battalion after the battle. Not a single officer taking ...

Published: Tuesday 13 June 1950
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 344 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Reticence

... with everything they saw. Somme Day NO young people it is becomin, ancient history, but there are many of homes throughout the country where be remembered as the July 1 will anniversary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 Sheffield was only ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1950
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 514 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Petting ‘Obstacle’

... with friends at 598, Chesterfield Road, and wi heffield’s annual be on parade service and parade com- memorating the battle of the Somme tomorrow. ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1950
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 271 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

No Bread Gifts

... poor people in the form of cash. The committee meet again in 2 fortnight. Somme Will Be Recalled At Service HEFFIELD’S annual service and parade commemorating the Battle of the Somme, in which thousands of men from Sheffield and district died, will be held ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1950
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 246 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HORNSEA HOLIDAY FOR GEORDIE AND MAC

... Yorks, through the Dardanelles beachhead, Egypt, India, Ceylon, Mauritius and France, returning to England after the battle of the Somme. OF FIGHTING STOCK His companion, Mr Mac Donald, comes from an old fighting family. Descended from the Mac Donalds of ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1950
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 633 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TREND OF THINGS

... were moved to the forward area preparatory to being sent into action on the !Somme. On September 15, .forty-nine of these new engines were unleashed in the Battle of the Somme. The Germans seemed to have had no warning of the impending use of the tank ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1950
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1584 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PEACE PROGRESS

... raised in §$14 aru disbanded in 1920. A card told v.sitors of the neavy casualties which the battalion suffered in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 when only 47 the roll ca.l after the battalion came out of the line. In 1924 the City Council gratefully accepted ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 1950
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 421 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DEATH CAUSED BY SHRAPNEL WOUND In First World War | The Weather

... and during the 1914-18 war was in the Machine Gun Corps, He was awarded the Military Medal for gallantry in the first battle of the Somme, and was later mentioned in dispatches. He was one of the recipients of gold watches presented to Todmordians who gained ...

Published: Friday 17 November 1950
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 429 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

One-armed man's 91 billiards break

... railway clerk and popular member of the Redcar Literary Institute, has had only one arm since a 1916 injury in the Battle of the Somme. I{e dd not this prevent him from playing his favourite game of billiards. however, nor from playing some seasons ago ...

Published: Friday 09 March 1951
Newspaper: Cleveland Standard
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 6 | Tags: none