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BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... BATTLE OF THE SOMME CONTINUES. [TRESS ASSOCIATION WAR SPECIAL.] AIRMAU’S WONDERFUL FEAT. General Sir Haig reported Sunday evening at 11.58 pm. as follows; South of the Ancro the enemy made three oka on our line west of Lesboeofa. In each case he was driven ...

Published: Monday 25 September 1916
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 430 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... BATTLE OF SOMME. MATINEES DAILY at 2.30 (excepting Friday), Doors open 2 p.m,, and EVEBY EVENING ‘uring 24, Doors open 6 p.m. Admission (including tax): 24d, 5d, and 74. Seata now booking (daily from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 4.50) at is (reserved). ...

Published: Wednesday 27 September 1916
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 52 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... BATTLE OF THE SOMME. RE\ BY THE COMRADES THE GREAT WAR. Thursday evening, at the club, Mr. A. Bnggs (late R.E. Mechanical Warfare Dept.) gave A very interesting lecture ' The Battlefield. 1916. Mr. Briggs i.« to congratulated 'upon- having secured such ...

Published: Friday 14 November 1919
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 334 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. One of the Loughborough boys, Pte. W. A. Deakin, of the Royal Fusiliers, who took part in the great offensive movement on the Ist July, has written home his impressions of the day. After referring to the few days prior to the ...

Published: Friday 28 July 1916
Newspaper: Loughborough Echo
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 3078 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... part in the battle of the Somme, and thought that the offensive would conducted by the British. The French wero believed to have been exhausted by the battle Verdun, but the Germans changed their minds when they saw French army corps on the Somme. The following ...

Published: Friday 27 July 1917
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 374 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... THE BATTLE THE SOMME FRENCH SEMI-OFFICIAL STATEMENT. BRITISH GAINS SUMMARISED. GOOD DAY'S WORK. (Prcs3 Association War'Spocial.) Paris, Saturday. semi-official statement issued last night says: main feature of to-day the resumption of the offensive tho ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1916
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 438 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FIRST BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... FIRST BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The Thiepval Memorial, commemorating in all 73,000, is twice the size of the Menm Gate at Ypres, and records some 20,000 more nam«s its piers. It is the largest of the chain, or line, of 21 memorials in France and Belgium, and ...

Published: Friday 01 January 1932
Newspaper: Northampton Mercury
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 308 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Victory in battle at the 'Somme'

... Victory in battle at the 'Somme' A MUDDY patch of grass outside liarrowby Lane Methodist Church in Grantham will be tidied up thanks to pressure from a community action group. The piece of land on Princess Drive, known as The Somme, has been turned into ...

Published: Friday 19 February 1999
Newspaper: Grantham Journal
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 378 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

ARTILLERY BATTLE ON THE SOMME

... —Nothing important. ON THE SOMME, front. puss ja.—In the in Paris says:— Wednesday night’s official statement issued direction of Predeal and Alt enemy attacks ay continge, East of the Giul Valley the enemy, some North of the Somme our South assemblies east ...

Published: Thursday 09 November 1916
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 990 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ALL THIS WEEK. THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... ALL THIS WEEK. THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. LEICESTER'S FAIRE. HOLIDAYS FOR THE SCHOOLS. Pewees to be made with the mesa for 'the arte•Dtglishe Fair on September 2111th sad 28th, sad with a hills more cceoperat.un from the general pulioc of the Wen the ...

Published: Thursday 07 September 1916
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Post
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 389 | Page: 3 | Tags: none