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WHICH CHRISTMAS?

... College, London, last night, on '* The Turning Tide of War,” said, assuming there were 122 German divisions during the battle of the Somme, the French and ourselves had defeated something like half the total German forces, or something like million men in ...

Published: Tuesday 03 October 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 230 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LORD DAfiTMODTH ON OUR NEW ARMY

... Eobertson's recent speech asking for more men, and to Sir Douglas Haig’s review, which stated that since the opening of the Battle of the Somme July 1 had engaged 38 German divisions, of which 29 had been withdrawn exhausted shattered. This, said Lord Dartmouth ...

Published: Tuesday 10 October 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 223 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BATTALION PARADE

... headquarters in Thorpe-street to St. Martin's Church, where a service was held in memory of those who fell in the second battle of the Somme, 1918. The route lay through Suffolk-street, Paradise-street, Victoria-square, Newstreet, and the Bull Ring. Ex-Service ...

Published: Monday 19 June 1933
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 223 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE OLD GLORIOUS TALE

... main features the story of die taking of bars is very riniilar earlier stories of the carrying of other village? m the battle of the Somme. It is the old glorious tale of the domination of Hrilish uoggeunese, courage, endurance over concealed machine-guns ...

Published: Tuesday 10 October 1916
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 227 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GERMAN LOSSES

... Germans have suffered enormously in the Somme battle. A soldier, writing from Kstrees on 1 September, says: From J2 to 27 August we were the Somme, and my regiment had 1,500 casualties. man of lhe9th Oorapany Bavarian Infantry Reserve Regiment writes: When ...

Published: Friday 13 October 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 214 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Nazis Shell Dover For Forty Minutes '

... Gresley, Burton-on- Trent. who celebrated their golden wedding yesterday, have 18 descendants. A son was killed at the battle of the Somme. Mr. Hair is a retired colliery deputy. Coalv.ile Chamb;£* of Trade has arranged for a Messerschmitt fighter to on view ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 207 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FRENCH VILLAGES RE-NAMED

... more vesatiousness. here did in? Oh. near Mhat. Our objective was Mary court, some such place.” lit evident that the Battle of the Somme is going to add some fresh household words to our war vocabulary. ■' i:. veteran this time; I’hig-street.” '' Booloo ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1916
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 208 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE BERLIN REPORT

... returned from successful reconnaissance with 22 French prisoners. Army Group of Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. —The battle north the Somme continued, with tremendous and continuous artillery fighting. North Thiepval and north-west of Courcelette we captured ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 210 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

AMERICA'S PART IN THE WAR

... public. It is not good tome war films have had, parfacnlarly those vivid ones which last year showed phases, of the battle of the Somme, hut it visuaHees America’s effort from tie transport of troops to the use those troops the battlefields of Prance. ...

Published: Thursday 08 August 1918
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 250 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Picture Films as Popular Educators

... inspection at Windsor Castle by the King and Queen of the official cinematograph pictures of the opening phases of the battle of the Somme, which have given occasion for recent controversy, about a hundred officials attached to the ’Ministry of Munitions ...

Published: Tuesday 05 September 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 268 | Page: 4 | Tags: none