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“Battle or the Somme

... “Battle the Somme. Perhaps the most important cinema production of the day is that entitled the “Battle the Somme.” The picture, taken in the actual scene tho hostilities by permission of the War Office, has created enormous interest throughout the country ...

Published: Friday 06 October 1916
Newspaper: Hawick News and Border Chronicle
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 689 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BATTLE or Tilt SOMME

... BATTLE Tilt SOMME hod started, and it had lieen open knowledge for some days that the regiment was to march sooth to take its place in the Army, which was sometimes described “Army of Manonvre. There was much excitement and speculation us to bow the ...

Published: Friday 16 January 1920
Newspaper: Hawick News and Border Chronicle
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 635 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Lt. Robert A. S. Elliot,

... declaration of war Lt. Elliot returned from Canada to enlist. He obtained a commission in the A.S.C., and was at the first battle of the Somme. He was gasetted Lieutenant, and joined the K. 0.5.8. ...

Published: Friday 20 September 1918
Newspaper: Hawick Express
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 71 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Victor Learmoad,

... 1914 be joined the 11.L 1., and after fieriod training in this country proceeded to the frout m 1915. took part in the battle* of the Somme and Ancrt, where the battalion was complimented for good work. returned to this country m January 1917 to under go ...

Published: Friday 03 August 1917
Newspaper: Hawick News and Border Chronicle
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 120 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BORDER OFFICERS KILLED

... which be obtained a commission in the R. F.A., and rapidly rose to the rank of Captain. He commanded his battery in the battle of the Somme, in which tie was wounded, and in the end of 1916 be returned to France. He was for a time a member of the Town Council ...

Published: Friday 04 May 1917
Newspaper: Jedburgh Gazette
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 331 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PAVILION Picture & Variety Theatre Week Commencintf October 8 The World's Two Greatest Pictures Will be ..

... Wednesday, October Bth, 18th, and lith. An American’s Home : The Battle-Cry of Peace. (BIX PARTS.) 1300,000 PRODUCTION. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, October ISth, 13lh,and Mth. The Battle of the Somme. atoMM 4. Ollr; 4 4—'» •*«— A WICK AUCTION HART. SPECIAL ...

Published: Friday 29 September 1916
Newspaper: Hawick News and Border Chronicle
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 308 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

STAINLESS STEEL

... ia 17 Gladstoue .Street, Hawick. Ho anUated September, 1911, a month after the war broka oat, and waa wounded in the battle of the Somme in July, 1910. Before enlisting, Private Murray, who in hia year, waa in business hairdresser at Wilton Path. Despite ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1917
Newspaper: Hawick News and Border Chronicle
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 321 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MELROSE

... work should soon make him a favourite with English readers. Sir A. Conan Doyle concludes his detailed account of the Battle of the Somme in 1918—the first portion of which attracted so much attention in last month's issue—and emphasises its decisive importance ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1918
Newspaper: Hawick Express
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 749 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Friend of Mankind

... the Holy *Spirit is a real and valid power to lend us all the aid and strength we need to carry them through. At the Battle of the Somme, Donald Hankey led his men to the charge crying Come on. lads, come on. If we get through• we'll thank God, if we ...

Published: Friday 29 August 1941
Newspaper: Jedburgh Gazette
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 888 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HIKERS & THE CHURCH

... service was one of remembrance—an annual one in the parish—and it. sincerity gave me, who had been born a week before the battle of the Somme, a much greater cobception of the false glory of war thou I had e‘er obtained from men who had fought throughout the ...

Published: Thursday 26 December 1935
Newspaper: Hawick Express
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 912 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

S HOW

... unfortunately, most persistently hampered the military operations of our armies on We tern front. Last year it brought the Battle of the Somme 6o a stand still, and on almost all occasion, a wet spell has set in just as our grail, offensives have developed. It ...

Published: Friday 19 October 1917
Newspaper: Hawick Express
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 934 | Page: 3 | Tags: none