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GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS

... from the state of the battle-fields the Somme, the Pas de Calais, and the Aisne. It says that works should be commenced immediately to ward off the grave inconveniences the suwmary inhumations which follewed the different battles. If great care is not ...

Published: Friday 17 March 1871
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1709 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Milks Still Making ‘Progress. Though the first impetuous rush of the French and British Armies, which achieved ..

... the pressure upon Verdun. The Battle of the Somme, as the great fight of Saturday and Sunday will be known to history, was no isolated event. It was part of the plan of the Allied War Council, and, just as the naval battle off Jutland had its immediate ...

Published: Tuesday 04 July 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1135 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

STORY OF THE WAR FOR

... STORY OF THE WAR FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. The Battle of the Somme is not yet over. The Allies continue to make some progress, though the difficulties are now greater, as the Germans have brought fresh forces to resist the advance. Nearly all the positions captured ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 331 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE CASUALTY LISTS

... Lighting Order. > All the. men who have returned wounded from the great charge, which will pass into history as the Battle of the Somme, speak of lery. Ihe German trenches were blown to dust-heaps, with the bodies of the rntti who held them,’’, says one ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1132 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ATTACKS ALL iiOUND

... Association correspondent some interesting sidelights on the German point of view as gathered from prisoners taken in the Battle of the Somme. He said tho Germans, more particularly the officers, were not overtly disheartened at the success of the first advance ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 384 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Eat RUSSIAN ONSLAUGHT

... the village of cleared the com- between Estrees and Oow occupy the Ger- Positions a front of fc/ 1 in ta the British battle of the Somme > th British captures the French 9,500. VERDUN. around Verdun, the left to the right were concentrated north-west of ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 821 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

IN BATTLE OF THE SOMME : 15,500 PRISONERS

... IN BATTLE OF THE SOMME : 15,500 PRISONERS. BIGGEST BATTLE OF WESTERN WAR. STEADY PROGRESS OF ALLIES’ PLANS. HOW THE PRUSSIANS SURRENDERED- F.A, Special Correspondent.) Press Camp, France. July 4. Already lias the struggle that is raging north and south ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2647 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

tish army gains briluant successes in heavy fighting

... briluant successes in heavy fighting. BATTLE RESUMED AT VKHDUN. ITTILE ATTACKS THE ENEMY. (Press Association War special.) Paris, Fridas. The following: communique was issued this evening; On both banks the SOMME there, was nothing report in the course ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2172 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

of the Bradford District Bank, and son of Mr. Joseph Mason, 01 Eljor-place, Hyde Park, wounded. Pte. J Wright, 117,

... was employed at the Middleton Colliery, has been killed action. Two Harrogate officers are among the wounded in the battle of the Somme. Sec.- Lieut. W. J. R. E. Poole has received a severe gunshot wound through the left arm. S*c.-Ll9irt. POOLE. Sec.-Lieut ...

Published: Monday 10 July 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 966 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

the Bradford Battalion, has been killed in action. He was the elder son of the Rev. R. W. Newlamls, of

... Herbert Featherstone, younger son the Rev. R. J. Featherstone, Vicar of St. Luke’s, Tbornaby-on-Tees, had been killed the battle of the Somme. He was twenty-six years age. News was received in bkipton, on Saturday morning the death action Cpl. E. C. Briggw, ...

Published: Monday 10 July 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 440 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME WTiat of the Western Front? There what may be described as the Battle of the Somme —most of the big battles on this side are named after riverscontinues, and bit by bit the Allies are wresting further ground from the ...

Published: Tuesday 11 July 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 151 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ISH HOLD GERMAN FIRST LINE DEFENCE SYSTEM ON FRONT OF 14,000 YARDS

... (West Riding) Regiment, died in hospital in Franc© on July Bth, from severe wounds received on the Ist inst. in the Battle of the Somme. Immediately war broke out Lieutenant Thelwell, who was engaged at Messrs. Debenham and Freebody's, London, enrolled ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1916
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4456 | Page: 4 | Tags: none