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The Battle of the Somme

... The Battle of the Somme. Those painful and accurate penmen, the news-writr& as Swift has it, are now unmurled on the Western front, and are hexing the time of their lives. Since the British an French advance began they have poured out columns of brilliant ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1916
Newspaper: Reading Standard
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 271 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE WAR BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... THE WAR BATTLE OF THE SOMME. IMPORTANT BRITISH SUCCESSES cApTrRE PIO:ANS:RS AND HALL OF During Mat -reit-end fishtin r continued nu the peiuetpc:ly the aorta the river. Nearlya mils to east of Montauban a a trenches was etorned. end a lodgmest gain* d ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1916
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 359 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MASTERY OF THE AIR

... MASTERY OF THE AIR. Brilliant Work by British in the Battle of the Somme. ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1916
Newspaper: Tees-side Weekly Herald
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 14 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ULSTERIVIEN IN THE BIG PUSH

... Anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne and are satisfied. Be sure you read Lady Carson's own story of her visits to the Wounded Heroes of the Ulster Division, who played so magnificent a part with other Irish Regiments in the Battle of the Somme. It appears ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1916
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THL BANITSBIRE HERALD

... THL BANITSBIRE HERALD The War Day by Day. MONDAY In spite of bad weather, there was much fierce fighting in the Battle of the Somme during the At the junction A their lines the British and French. attacking simultaneou.sly. fresh sac-trews. In the Italian ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1916
Newspaper: Banffshire Herald
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

July 16 GENERAL NEWS

... obliged to surrender. It is now possible to give some details of the troops facing the French at the beginning of the battle of the Somme. On a front representing nine miles, or rather more than a third of the Allied front, there were more than twenty-seven ...

LIEUT. GERALD WILLIAM NIXON

... Gerald William Nixon, Hampshire Regiment, brother of Mrs. Manville, wife of Mr. Edward Manville, fell in action at the battle of the Somme on July Ist. lie was 20 years of age, and educated at the Bedford Grammar School. He was a pupil at the Daimler Works ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1916
Newspaper: Kenilworth Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

“THE SPIRIT OP ULSTER.”

... “THE SPIRIT OP ULSTER.” (In honour of men of the immortal Ulster -Division, killed action, battle of the Somme, July Ist, 1916.) She never yet had broken faith or bond, Or sold one principle for greed,of gain ; She never yet had spared to sacrifice For ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1916
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WEEK BY WEEK

... on July Ist. Wounded in ranee one day and in a London hospital tie* neat is a literal fact. Lord Derby says: The Battle of the Somme has etn- Ichatically demonstrated British organisation to be markedly superior, in one very important respect, to that ...

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... Rev. Canon Moeren, paid an eloquent tribute to the heroism displayed by the soldiers of the Ulster Division in the battle of the Somme, and reminded young men of tht duty which they owed to their country at this critical period in her history. He referred ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1916
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 8 | Tags: none