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Thu Battle of the Somme

... Thu Battle the Somme. The more the Battle of the Somme is considered the greater it appears, whether one studies it in Sir Douglas Haig’s dispatch or in its effect on German policy. When it began the military situation was critical. At Verdun the French ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1917
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

AMUSEMENTS

... READING. N9« ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1916
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 26 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MOETIM ER

... Samnel Could, who was killed in France October 19th, has been presented with the Military Medal won her husband at the battle of the Somme. presentation was made at Oxford by the Major-General in Command. ...

Published: Saturday 09 March 1918
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MAGAZINES

... in fiction. Sir A. Conan Doyle’s History-of the War is resumed with the first connected and detailed account of the Battle of the Somme in 1918. Mr. George Hudson, the retiring chief the Windsor CaStie Police, has been invested the King with the silver ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1918
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 145 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CAPTAIN RAYMOND LTTTEN

... CAPTAIN RAYMOND LTTTEN Captain Raymond Litten, Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed on Saturday,' July Ist, the battle of the Somme, when leading his company into action. He was the only son of the late Tobias Raphael Litten and Mrs. Litten, of 21, Pembridge ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1916
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HORE SHIPS SUNK

... Merit on his Chief Staff for the excrellent manner in which they cheeked the Frajnco-British attacks, and so won the battle of the Somme. CROWNING THE KING OF HUNGARY. The Hungarian Chamber chose Count Tisza Deputy Palatine, so that he will crown the new ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1916
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

IN MEMORIAM

... South Lancashire Regiment, only child of Dr. and Mrs. Kitson, Reading, killed in action at Bazentin-le-Petit, in the battle of the Somme, Julj 23rd, 1916, aged 23. Siatmonb.—ln honoured and very clear memory Paul Simmons, Captain, Hampshire Regiment, who ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1917
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WANTAGE,

... information that her son, Ex-Sergt, F. J. Hankins, has died in Montreal, Canada, pneumonia. He was badly wounded the battle of the Somme in. July, 1316. After being in hospital for a year and nine months was discharged from the Army and went to his brother ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1918
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 183 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PRIVATE ALBERT RIVERS

... Caversham, the death of thoir second son, Gunner Reginald Lusty, R.F.A., who was killed in action on July 9th in the battle of the Somme. The captain, writing to his mother, said: I am very sorry to have to tell you that your son, who hae been in the battery ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 411 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

PETROL SHORTAGE

... WINDSOR. THEIK MAJESTIES' COMMENTS. The Secretary of the War Office says: A programme of the official War Office film The Battle the Somme presented throughout the country, in addition to a film which will be released to the pubhe later on, The King’s Visit ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1916
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 409 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

LOCAL CASUALTIES

... received his commission as second lieutenant in the Royal Berks Regiment on January 25th. 1915, and took part in the first battle of the Somme, the Passchendaol© and other operations, and f6r special services was awarded the Military Cross. Father and Son Casualty ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1918
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 249 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SUHUINGHILL

... Rifle Corps. Founder of the Church Lads’ Brigade in this parish. Killed in action in France near High Wood, at the battle of the Somme, on July 15th, 1916. Age 43.” ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1917
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 280 | Page: 8 | Tags: none