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... allegedly state-of-the-art technology failing to deliver, from the Somme to the Gulf, giving the lie to the belief that modern mechanics would make wars quicker and The battle of the Somme: one cleaner, with fewer casualities. of the greatest military blunders ...

Published: Thursday 02 March 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 195 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

BRAVERY OF 6 th CAMERON HIGHLANDERS

... the 6 th Battalion of the Cameron Highlanders , who with conspicuous , bravery took an important village in tie great battle of Ae Somme . A cross which was erected in tho village of Martinpuich was sent to Inverness a few days ago , and has been placed ...

Published: Monday 19 November 1934
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 369 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

GERMAN REPORTS

... official bulletin wasfissuod in Berlin to-day : —V- ¦* ¦ ¦ ¦ ' [ . ' : ¦ ' •' '' : ' .. . The artillery battle in ; the Somme region has become ' . very-Tiolenl . ' , ' .. , - ; ,. ' ¦ ' ¦ • - * . : ¦ . ' , . ;' .,: ¦ . ' Between Maiirepas ...

Published: Monday 04 September 1916
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 676 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Foreign fields’ grim harvest ANDREW WALKER

... remains were found this year at the site of the Battle of the Somme by farmers tending tt;]eir fields M,\» - ore than dne million men lost their lives ih 1916 and 1918 during sustain¢d fightin% at the Somme, a 40 kjlometre front in the undulating countryside ...

Published: Monday 08 November 1999
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 211 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

THE 47 TH DIVISION

... to the personal question said : — I ,. wa 3 charged with wanton wasto of the men entrusted to my command n , t the Battle o £ the Somme . I rapudiafe that charge with igdignatiofl . The measures taken which led to this loss wero either , in opposition ...

Published: Wednesday 18 June 1919
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 326 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

TALLY-HO V . C . Campbell—Tennyson-Smith BOURNEMOUTH WEDDIJNG

... Grange , Blyth Road . Bournemouth . General Campbell ( known as the Tally . Ho V . C ) . won the Victoria Cross at the Battle of the Somme , where he rallied his men to the attack to the sound -of a hunting horn . Saturday's ceremony was performed by the ...

Published: Monday 08 February 1937
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 353 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Queen renews acquaintance with ‘My Highlanders’

... qualities, such as courage, inspiration and self-discipline, were the same as those demonstrated 80 years ago - at the Battle of the Somme during the First World War. Later the Queen officially opened the new Scottish Office building at Victoria Quay in Leith ...

Published: Tuesday 02 July 1996
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 207 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... AND TEA 3 . qp H E P A . L L A D . I TJ Mi - * - FOUNTAINBRIDGE , EAST . UKX . T WEEK . • Mon ., Tnes ., aid Wei THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME . - ( OFFIOIAIi PICTURES . ) DAILY at 2 . 4 . 7 . and : 9 . BEST T A' SCALA . ' 5 MAET PICTTJRES . - -Li ¦ VARIETIE ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1916
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 365 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GOOD NEWS PROM THE TRANS YL V ANIA N FRONT

... again astir , and , in pursuance of that rhythmical alternation of French and English effort which has marked the Battle of the Somme , is methodically pushing noarer to Bapanme . While Austrians and Gornians are being so n&avily hammered elsewhere ...

Published: Monday 16 October 1916
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 324 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TUTTT . E OF THE SOMMK

... of Duncairn wrote : — The brave sons of Ulster who died and suffered in the cause of the world ' s freedom at tho Battle- of the Somme on 1 st July 1916 have left behind them an immortal heritage of example which can never bo forfotten by their grateful ...

Published: Tuesday 03 July 1928
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 331 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

PORT SUNLIGHT MEMORIAL

... LORD LEVERHULME ON PEACE TASKS . Ex-Sergeant Eames , an old employee of Lever Brothers , who was blinded at the first Battle of tho Somme , unveiled at Port Sunlight on Saturday a war memorial erected to the memory of 481 members of Lever ' s and associated ...

Published: Monday 05 December 1921
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 348 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Above: Canadian troops about to go over the top at the start of the Somme offensive on 1 July 1816 Right: Avril ..

... about to go over the top at the start of the Somme offensive on 1 July 1816 Right: Avril Williams in her garden in Picardy. The cellar below her house was a refuge during the battle. Previous pages: the Somme battiefield in 1916 Photograph courtesy of the ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1996
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 997 | Page: 42 | Tags: none