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TUESDAY

... TUESDAY. Battle of the Somme. There has been on the British front particularly severe fighting at the Trones Wood. On Saturday morning our troops succeeded in capturing the southern end of the wood, and the enemy has since made five violent counter-attacks ...

Published: Friday 14 July 1916
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 478 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

In Maginot Line

... took them to France in the winter of 1939-40. Under his command, the Division fought in the Maginot Line and in the battle of the Somme back to St Valery: During reprisals by the Ger- ...

Published: Tuesday 27 March 1945
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Wounded on Somme

... Wounded on Somme Going to France in 1915, he took part in several important engagements. At the Battle of the Somme 1916 his right elbow was shattered, but clever surgery saved the arm and the use of the hand. In spite of his severe wounds, he continued ...

Published: Thursday 31 December 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 89 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

IRISH MEMORIAL ON SOMME

... IRISH MEMORIAL ON SOMME. Amiens, Monday. The monument erected by Irishmen in memory of the Irish volunteers who fell in the battle of the Somme 1916 was inaugurated at Guillemont to-day. Marshal Joffre presided, and was accompanied by several high British ...

Published: Tuesday 24 August 1926
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 71 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Captain J. B. Orr

... B. Orr. Captain J. B. Orr, R.A.M.C., who has just been awarded the Military Cross for “conspicuous bravery at the battle of the Somme,” joined the staff of the Aberdeen and North of Scotland Agricultural College not long befero outbreak of war for research ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1916
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 88 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FYVIE MOTOR ACCIDENT

... r Cottage, who was on his -motor cycle. A leg that was severely injured during his service with the Gordons at the Battle of the Somme was ag-ain badly hurt, and also a hand. ...

Published: Monday 15 June 1931
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Lost M.P. Fought in Great War

... the torpedoed evacuee ship, had been Unionist M.P. for the Wrekin Division of Shropshire since 1931. He fought in the Battle of the Somme and served the staff of the 3rd and 4th Armies in the Great War and attained the rank of major. At the last election ...

Published: Monday 23 September 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PRINCESS UNVEILS WAR MEMORIAL

... Regiment, when over half the officers and men of the l/4th Battalion were wiped out in their tragic attack in the Battle of the Somme, the Princess Royal on Saturday unveiled a memorial at Halifax Drill Hall to the dead of the First and Second Fourth ...

Published: Monday 06 September 1937
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 89 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Pte. Sheriffs, Aberdeen

... employment of T. Davidson, fish salesman. younger brother. Private Edwin Ritchie, Gordon Highlanders, killed at the battle of the Somme. ...

Published: Friday 20 April 1917
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 79 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

* * WITH THE R.E.'s IN FRANCE Don't miss this splendid series of adventures of the Aberdeen Field Company of

... in the PRESS & JOURNAL on MONDAY, 13th JANUARY Share their discomforts in ice-bound fields and roads— In the great battle of the Somme see them with great audacity and bravery blow up bridges, lay mines and construct fortifications—These boys from your ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 119 | Page: 1 | Tags: none