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THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF BATTLE. GERMAN FUTILITY. PARIS, Saturday

... THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF BATTLE. GERMAN FUTILITY. PARIS, Saturday The thirty-first day of the battle in the Somme district brought no material modification on the whole of the front. North and south of the Somme the French organised the positions captured ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 250 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Hemingby Man Wounded

... pleasure of seeing him home on ten days' leave. On going back again he re-joined the Regiment, and waas wounded in the hig battle on the Somme. He was buried by a shell and had to be dug out by his comrades. He owes his life to his steel helmet, which, when he ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1916
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Hillswick Soldier Killed in Action

... PRIVATE PETER PETERSON. The above is a portrait of Peter Peterson, aged 26 years, who was killed in action at the battle of the Somme on 12th July, 1916. He was the third eon of Mr Laurence Peterson, Packin, Hillswick. Private Petersony says a correspondent ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1916
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 203 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

D 0 YOU SUFFER

... pois'(mmn matter which alone is the tro o GERMAN REPORT OF SOMME FIGHTING. German evening papers* publish the first part of a long report from Headquarters concerning the battle of the Somme in July. It is stated that in the middle of May the German forces ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1916
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 337 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE BATTLE FILM, AS SEEN BY A NEWTONIAN. THOUGHTS IN A MANCHESTER PICTURE THEATRE

... THE BATTLE FILM, AS SEEN BY A NEWTONIAN. THOUGHTS IN A MANCHESTER PICTURE THEATRE. After attending a meetiug of Private] Firms’ Fire Brigades, held in Manchester last week, I was one of several hundreds of people who saw the War Office film of the Battle ...

Published: Friday 08 September 1916
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BATTLE ON THE SOMME

... BATTLE ON THE SOMME WHOLE SYSTEM OF ENEMY'S TRENCHES TAKEN AT BETHUNE. HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRE SOUTH OF THE SOMME. ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1916
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 19 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

GERMAN COMMENT

... ent of the “ Koelnische Zeitung ’ says that the battles now going on against the Austrian positions near Gorizia and on the Komen Plateau can only be compared in violence with the battle of the Somme and the last Russian offensive. ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1916
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 49 | Page: 2 | 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

TELEGRAMS BETWEEN EMPEROR OF RUSSIA AND KING GEORGE

... sending to Your Majesty, and to your gallant armies, my heartiest greetings upon their last achievements in the great battle of the Somme.—Nicholas, Sept 29, 1916.. In the name of my army, and on my own behalf, 1 heartily thank Your Majesty for your gratifying ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1916
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE SHETLAND TIMES, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1916,

... GREAT BATTLE ON THE SOMME. RESULTS: 25 VILLAGES RETAKEN, 35,000 PRISONERS - CAPTURED, AND 150 GUNS TAKEN. General Jofire has an order of the day to the Armies of the North, expressing his profound satisfaction with the troops fighting on the Somme, For ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1916
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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Published: Friday 20 October 1916
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 54 | Page: 1 | 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