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BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... BATTLE OF THE SOMME WEEK-END REPORTS. Asilo-Freack Secceis at, Trous liardecoort. 'HE FRENCH NEARER TO PERONNE. :lighting on '=the fiontine battlefield daring the week-end'. wee mainly.- confined to the extreme rightof the .British and left of the ...

Published: Monday 10 July 1916
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 333 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Lieut. Gerald William Nixon Killed in Action

... DAIMLER WORKS. Lieut. Gerald William Nixon, Hampshire Regiment, brother of Mrs. Edward Manville, fell in action the Battle of the Somme July Ist. was 20 years of age, and educated at the Bedford Grammar School. He was a pupil the Daimler Works, and immediately ...

Published: Monday 10 July 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 214 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Wonderful Spirit

... after the attack had been launched. South of the Somme, there was no action of importance. Nevertheless, last night made some progress in the neighbourhood of Belloy and Estrees. The battle of the Somme is following regular rhythm successive methodical ...

Published: Monday 10 July 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 269 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ENEMY RETIRE IN DISORDER

... week. This includes, besides much war material 20 guns, to which mast be added 76 taken the French. To sum up, the battle of the Somme is following a regular rhythm of successive methodical, prudent advances. —Press Association. DRAWING THE NET ROUND ...

Published: Monday 10 July 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 912 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

I.voESSAXT Pressure o.v Gerhart

... British advance, have engaged German regiments which might otherwise have been shifted to the flanks of out Ally. The battle of the Somme has emphatically demonstrated British organisation markedly superior, in one very important inspect, to that the German ...

Published: Monday 10 July 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 977 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TROOPS STAND FMK

... German front line. DAY'S FRENCH REPORT. is on the Somme in Champagne. fallowing official communique has rteeivzd from French General uners, and issued by the Press this afternoon : the south of the Somme.—Our continuing their progress the night in the region ...

Published: Monday 10 July 1916
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 1040 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MORNING EXPRESS EDITION

... bomb-proofs and ruined trenches. Von Wiegand comments the lack of details in the Berlin official statements regarding the battle of the Somme. He says the ** German General Staff has shown disposition lift the veil, and is evidently indifferent to opinion ont-; ...

Published: Monday 10 July 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1503 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BRITISH & FRENCH MAKE MORE PROGRESS

... Biaches. EXCELLENT TACTICAL SITUATION IN BEND OP THE SOMME. PARIS, Monday. The Press, discussing the capture of Biaches, dwells upon the excellent tactical situation of the French in the bend of the Somme, and the consequences may have upon the further course ...

Published: Monday 10 July 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4787 | Page: 3 | Tags: none