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Seventy Thousand Dead

... mine tion of slow wearing down ol vie toe which the attackers snent more Wood treasure than (he defender-. The battle of the Somme, combined wan the heroic defence of Verdun, tauga . great commanders a lesson in tactics w they were astute enough to ...

Published: Monday 23 November 1931
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 243 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NEWS IN BRIEF

... Defence League for saving his master from drowning dragging him safety after the collapse of raft- The anniversary of the Battle of the Somme (WIG), in which the lister Division figured prominently, was celebrated in Belfast yesterday, when messages received ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1927
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 212 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

OTHER MESSAGES

... the Fourth German Corps, thinks of the ; British Army is revealed in tr.e course ; voluminous document dealing with the Battle the Somme and its lessons, which ■wa-s captured by our troops. It begins paying tribute to our infantry. *■ Tne English infantry ...

Published: Friday 06 October 1916
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 447 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MINERS AS EMIGRANTS

... rejected 'because lie did not look too robust was immediately passed when it was learned that he had fought in the Battle of the Somme when only 15 years of age. A man who was good enough to fight for his country at 15 is good enough to go to Australia ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1926
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

from there Havant. Books were produced showing that at a special audit made recently the total defalcations ..

... been in affair like this. left Poor Law work to join the Army 1914 as a ranker, was given his commission during the battle of the Somme, which he was mentioned in dispatches. received the Star, Victory and General Service medals and finished up 1919 with ...

Published: Friday 12 August 1932
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FOOD COMPLAINT JUSTIFIED

... Antwerp. He commanded the Fourth Amoy Corps it Nene* Chapelle is 1913, and was is coal'mend of the Fourth Army in the battle of the Somme in the following year. ...

Published: Friday 08 August 1919
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 254 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

VETERANS WHO ARE

... kill.” He was ridden by Captain the Hon. F. Guest at the first battle of Le Cateau, by Sir John French the first battle of Ypres, and by his owner—then Major- General J. E. B. Seely—on the Somme, the advance to the Hindenburg line, Passcliendaele, and many ...

Published: Monday 26 August 1935
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 261 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

RUSSO JAPANESE ALLIANCE

... contrary international law against neutral firms having commercial relations with Germany.— P.A. War Special. During the battle of too Somme a North Count ryman who has just been invalided home fired point-blank at a German charge machine-gun. but the man still ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1916
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 248 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BROADCASTING

... Canada from East to West | will be given. ‘To-day being the anmiver- sarv of the Battle of the Somme, the pro gramme will include a talk, at 9.15, en- * by Mr. titled The Somme Still Flows, Edmund Blunden. LONDON. 210 & OAVENTRY 6.15.— 6.0.—Summe: Days, by ...

Published: Monday 01 July 1929
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 213 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Varied Experience

... tutor at the Fairholme Collegiate School, Hunstanton, and at Cowplain. HAYLING MAN’S DEATH On 19th Anniversary of Battle In battle on the Somme 19 years ago. Richard Harold Cole, then a private in the 15th Hants Regiment, was shot in the back. Ever since ...

Published: Tuesday 17 September 1935
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 270 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE NEW VICAR

... tutor at the Fairholme Collegiate School, Hunstanton, and at Cowplain. HAYLING MAN'S DEATH On 19th Anniversary of Battle In a battle on the Somme 19 years ago, Richard Harold Cole, then a private in the 15th Hants Regiment, was bhot in the back. Ever since ...

Published: Friday 20 September 1935
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 255 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

■Q. UNMAN ■. T. WOOD

... He saw service in the Great War. In 1915 he joined the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders. and took part in the first battle of the Somme, winning his commission on the field. He was then drafted to the Ist Worvesters, and afterwards went to India, where ...

Published: Friday 13 March 1931
Newspaper: Hampshire Telegraph
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 265 | Page: 19 | Tags: none