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... week-end my mind naturally goes back to a certain date in 1916 when one of the greatest battles in our history was begun am thinking of the first Battle of the Somme which started on 1 July 1916 and in which I played my very small part As we offered our ...

Published: Sunday 30 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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Six SUNDAY RN the ninth final of this brilliant series WALTER WHITMAN shows how we can all back up our

... outlook to the demands British lest far more men in single both light and heavy imposed by war conditions We battles The Battle of the Somme Not but throughout the all know that everything we value for instance produced 614 105 greater part of the last ...

Published: Sunday 28 July 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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SUNDAY MERCURY 29 JANUARY 1933 Con Man Likes the Cute Ones WHO LAUGHS LAST- Banker’s Verdict on Russia CROOKS WHO

... EXECUTION Sunday Mercury Special Correspondent XTEEN years after was “killed in action” at Guille-mont daring the second battle of the Somme a man living in a tiny Derbyshire cottage is expecting to hear that the Government lias at last granted him a war pension ...

Published: Sunday 29 January 1933
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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A MIDLAND PORTRAIT 8 Sir Frank Wiltshire Stanley AS scon as I was brought into the softly-carpeted room its shelves

... clock half-an-hour earlier than you left by British time V- i was disbanded got up to first with the same crowd saw battle of the Somme and then later on took a company picked up an MC was mentioned despatches wounded in August 1918 and was in hospital ...

Published: Sunday 17 December 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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... Honour A knighthood on William F Jury for 5 had a leading War Office Cinema Committee and handled official films Battle of the Somme” Tanks” Long Credit Titles An American trade journal what the string technical credits that preceded something like ...

Published: Sunday 16 January 1938
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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SUNDAY MERCURY 26 MAY 1635 13 POLITICS AND THE 40 Aiu How They deduced To Five By 'J'HIS atpry of-

... the first I have tried to trace Haig’s career faithfully from his birth throughout his Army days to the end of the Battle of the Somme have tried to reveal Haig apart from his military Tecord but it has not been a simple task Haig had very little life ...

Published: Sunday 26 May 1935
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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18 NOT SO “ENLIGHTENED” Our Capacity for Being Gulled A STATESMAN AT HOME Stories of Asquith the Man SUNDAY MERCURY

... chart of historical scandals easiest way of remembering dates Mr Asquith’s war story gives vivid pictures of the vital battles of the Somme Arras Passchendaele and St Quentin and is full of odd little touches like that of tho two mice who with great punctuality ...

Published: Sunday 03 October 1937
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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