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Feb. lOth, 19W.], 1 an entire lack of appreciation of the charm and interest of a remarkable building on a

... October 13th last Viscount Clive died of the wounds he received while leading his company of Ihe Welsh Guards at the battle of the Somme. Powis Castle is a home of mourning, but the name of its dead heir stands high on the Roll of Honour. H. AvRAY TIPPING ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1340 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

rearguard actions. But eYen then, and certainly under existing conditions, aeroplanes can do, and now do, many ..

... impossible fo1· cavalry to get round the enemy's flanks, our Third Dimension Cavalry go over his head. It was in the battle of the Somme that our aeroplanes first took Now it is part of their regular seriously to the cavalry game. Now it is part of their ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1164 | Page: 111 | Tags: none

June 7th, 1919. J .COUNTRY LIFE. and then our own fresh Guards coming forward eager and new into the fray

... y little effect upon the enemy. These battles were in the autumn of rgrs, and with the winter lull the Guards went to Flanders and finally into the Ypres Salient, where they remained until the battle of the Somme late in rgr6. In a curious way they associated ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1919
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1378 | Page: 123 | Tags: none

632 COUNTRY LIFE. letter, and the entry in the diary which might have stopped short abruptly as a life stopped

... For we were taught in our history books and the legends and stories of children's books, that in all battles one side was praying on the eve of battle, while the other was drinl'-ing and roystering. Those who prayed and were quiet won. In this war, even ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1919
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1438 | Page: 72 | Tags: none

THE HIGH-PITCHED ROOF CLOTHED IN RUSSET BROWN THATCH

... leave;;. My boy went, he repeated, and again, straightening his bent back. fixed his blue eyes on mine. It was at the battle o' the Somme that he was missed. Months after they found him hangin' on the Jarmans' barbed wire-naught but a few pore fragments ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1798 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

212 yards distance. Mr. Hugh Wyatt of Cirsbury has lost two sons; Mr. Hugh G. P. Wyatt, his eldest son,

... Sussex Yeomanry; while his third son, Lieutenant Geoffrey W. P. Wyatt of the 3rd Buffs, was killed in action in the Battle of the Somme on September 15th. Mr. Hugh Wyatt's second son, Captain Richard Wyatt of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, is now serving ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2329 | Page: 42 | Tags: none

THE LION'S MOUSE

... late George Wyndham, poems while E. W T. was still at school ; and the volume of verse be published just before the battle of the Somme, called ' ' W orple Flit.'' 7/6 net. Sept. 27th, 1919.] COUNTRY LIFE. ci. Messrs. METHUEN'S NEW BOOKS New Illustrated ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1919
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2104 | Page: 130 | Tags: none

F~rce and have won numerous D.S.O.s, Military Crc·sses and mentions in despatches

... and Boulogne and towns in that area. Such a reputation did these squadrc·ns \~in as air-scrapper;; that when the battle of the Somme began Sir Douglas Haig borrowed a couple of squadrons of them to help his own chaser squadrons, and the R.N.A.S. pilots ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3087 | Page: 109 | Tags: none

THE POTATO

... is what Artemus Ward called a literary cuss, and perhaps there was poetic exaggeration in his suggestion that the Battle of the Somme must be fought out on the potato fi elds of England ; but in any case I thought it devolved on a plain citizen to ascertain ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1342 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

Long years we learned and grew, and in this place

... Long years we learned and grew, and in this place XXXIV . LIEUTENANT WILLIAi\I OEL HODGSON fell in the battle of the Somme, July rst, 1916, at the early age of twenty-three. So far I have see,,, as it seems to me, no adequate notice of his little book ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1918
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3527 | Page: 56 | Tags: none

COUNTRY LIFE

... LT. G. \V. P. WYA'l'l'. L'l'. FI'I'ZROY SOMERSET, i\l.C. LT. H. CECIL SOMERSET. Died of dyselltry. K illed in the Battle of the Somme . Killed at La Boiscl!e. Dallgel'ous/y wouuded on Vim)· Ridge. March 3rd, 1917.]' COUNTRY LIFE. 211 WHAT SUSSEX THE ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4579 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

RECLAIMING THE WASTE

... is what Artemus Ward called a literary cuss, and perhaps there was poetic exaggeration in his suggestion that the Battle of the Somme must be fought out on the potato fi elds of England ; but in any case I thought it devolved on a plain citizen to ascertain ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1917
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4211 | Page: 27 | Tags: none