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THE HIPPODROME

... On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday pext week the much-advertised * Battle of the Somme will be shown ; and there wi.l be matwees each day at 2.30. Apart from the ** Battle of the Somme,” there wi!l be tho usual star drama and the serial, ** Peg o' the ...

Published: Friday 27 October 1916
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 248 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PICKINGS FROM *“PUNCH.”

... to being born a German just now. The official German films of the Battle of the Somme proved beyond doubt that if it had not been for the Allies the Germaus would have won this battle. “You must shortem sail,” eaid the chairman of the Henley Tribunal ...

Published: Friday 09 February 1917
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AMUSEMENTS. THE PAVILION

... puvch ©* iu it. These two make op the main items in Mr. Thorntou's weekend programme at the Pavilion. Next week the ** Battle of the Somme film is billed for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesdsy, and for the other three nights a good story under the title of ...

Published: Friday 27 October 1916
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WHEN THE LADS COM: HOME

... green- These boys were the finest fighters The world has ever seen. Think of the battle of Mons, the Aisne, too; Think of Loos and Neuve Chapelle, And battle of the Somme, Where many a good lad fell. They gave their lives for King, Country, and Freedom ...

Published: Friday 02 March 1917
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 187 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MILITARY CROSS

... a commission in February, 1916, he went to the front very shortly afterwards. He was in the forward area during the battle of the Somme, and \has. in his capacity as regimental surgeon, been through the recent ‘heavy fighting from Messines op‘wards. It ...

Published: Friday 28 September 1917
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 195 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FATAL FALL INTO TRENCH

... for military servico. Prince George of Saxony, in describing a recent review by the Kaiser of Germans fresh from the battle of the Somme, says: Th:{ were mere skeletons of companies, battalions led by ocaptains, eome companies led by licutenants and s ...

Published: Friday 29 September 1916
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 212 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BATTLE OF THE SCMME. “A FULL HALF” OF THE GERMAN ARMY BEATEN. SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S DISPATCH

... BATTLE OF THE SCMME. “A FULL HALF” OF THE GERMAN ARMY BEATEN. SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S DISPATCH. The story of the Battle of the Somme, which lasted from JnlL 1 to November 18, is told in Sir Douglas Haig’s dispatch, which fills sixteen pages of the “London ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1917
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TWO VULCAN MEN WIN THE MILITARY MEDAL STAFF-SERGT. ALBERT BAKER. S 796‘ ¥ ' ; 2

... Albert Baker (31803), 45th Field Ambul- I ance, R.A.M.C., who has been awarded the Military Medal. In the height of the battle on the Somme he was engaged in a dug-out, his particular task being that of getting in a wounded German from the top of the trench ...

Published: Friday 27 October 1916
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 248 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

20-22 BRIDGE ST, °none EARLESTOWN z3as

... Trophy,” given by Col. Collingwood, in memory of his brother, the late Capt. Carlton Collingwood, who was killed in the battle of the Somme during the last war. He was also presented with a silver medal by the Old Contemptibles, of Warrington. He was educated ...

Published: Friday 07 July 1944
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NEW C.O. FOR NEWTON CADETS

... conunand of ‘A’ Company (Home Guard) and also Adjgtans. For four years he served in the last war, being wounded in the Battle of the Somme. He is assistant headmaster of the Central Boys School, Ashton-in-Makerfield, residing at Alcuin, Winwick Road, Newton ...

Published: Friday 04 September 1942
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE “BIG PUSH” IN THE WEST

... push” in the West, by massing thousands of troops there, and scnding out vast quantities of ammunition. On July 1 the battle of the Somme opened, and on the first day the German front was brokem on a distance of sixteen miles. Montauban and Mametz were taken ...

Published: Friday 29 December 1916
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 343 | Page: 4 | Tags: none