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WILLIE THE BUTCHER. Crown Prince and His Menm

... Hindeuburg’s strategic reireat was a surprise. Weashor favoured thé secrecy of the with drawal, which was the result of the battle of the Somme and a precaut xoumtbo Allied offensive. The enemy wi hoping to return again, and indeed he did return. We ook only a ...

Published: Tuesday 10 September 1918
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Now Reported Killed. An Adventurous Career

... Gallipoli, was invabded home wrh enteric. Soon after his recovery, he went to France and in the later stages of the Battle of the Somme, was wounded and awarded the Military Cross. Ho was in the Royal Air Service when, & month ago, uhe incdent oocurred ...

Published: Tuesday 15 October 1918
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 214 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE BANFFSHIRE HERALD

... clerk in the sisvii.s of the G.N.S.R. He enlisted in Sept. 1914, when he was 15 years of age. and took part in the battle of the Somme in August, 1916. He returned to Franco in March of the present year, and was home on furlough about two weeks ago. Mr ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1918
Newspaper: Banffshire Herald
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1647 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DEAD OR ALIVE?

... enlisted in ihe Queen's Westtninster Rifles early in the war, He was roported killed in July, 1916, at Gommecourt, in the Battle of the Somme, and hw wife received the ondinary official notificeeation of hws death Two nonths later she got another Mtter from ...

Published: Friday 11 July 1919
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE CONSECRATION

... performed by the three battalions in the operations about Suvis and the Gallipoli Peninsular, or later in the swguinary battles of the Somme, at Thiepval, Messines, Pascheadael, the Asiago and the lower Piave. All three batialions won Ql distinction and suffered ...

Published: Monday 26 July 1920
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 848 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The case was dismissed

... ‘War ¢(he was badly wounded buried in other plates but Services at Rushden Park been in the business 41 years at the Battle of Yhe Somme). have been reinterred. Road Baptist Church were It was the custom of the trade |and Mrs. Stapleton, had al Driver Stapleton ...

Published: Wednesday 17 August 1949
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1048 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

57 D.S.M. Retires After 37 Yearsin the Territorials

... transferred to the Ist Battalion in 1916 in France. He was present at the ’Battle of the Somme, and in July, 1917, was taken prisoner after the Battalion’s epic stand at the Battle of ‘the Dunes Repatriated in 1919, he rejoined the 4th Nor-‘ thants in 1920 ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1951
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Peterborough Playgoers who are presenting “The | Miss J. Wright, Mr. R, White, Miss G. Wood, Mr. P. Paragon” ..

... s“e‘(‘;;t&':i wrest supremacy in gurop(- strangely in March this week. from the Germans. Once again, after a silence of The Battle of the Somme. 15 years, friends and relatives Among the thousands of men e dtl;ggarx?a't? nest DUT from all nations who laid whether ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 1955
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 561 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

1916 shrapnel comes out

... ~_Mr. Yates was injured in ythe back of his ht leg ,with small pieces of shrapnel from a bursting shell during the battle of the 'Somme in 1916, He was laid up for several weeks in .a hospital at Rouen, but his . .wounds .. were ..not: serious enough ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1956
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 638 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

‘NIRITING in the current issue of “Exhaust 20th C(,n tur Notes,” the Peterborough Motor Club’s ey monthly ..

... Children’s Hour), is that X-rays have just shown 21 pieces of the explosive bullet which “had his name on it” in the first battle of the Somme in 1916. So once more Unole Mac has been on the operating table. When I asked him how many operations this made, he ...

Published: Friday 24 May 1957
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 468 | Page: 5 | Tags: none