THE big push has not been accomplished without a big price. A heavy toll has been paid. Mr. J. H. Hewitt, of ..

... the Ulster Volunteer Force before the war. One fell at Festubcrt in June last year the other two were killed in the Battle of the Somme on July I. They were great athletes, playing for the North of Ireland Rugby Football Club. Dr. Sawers Scott, of Withington ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1916
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 444 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

THE SPORTSMAN'S ROLL OF HONOUR

... deficient in inches, but has remark able pluck. I am sure that his athletic training stood him in good stead in the recent battle of the Somme, and it is to be hoped that the famous Irish hockey exponent will soon recover convalescence, and once more be fit to ...

1 , Jtey lamps W.M. July 23-I.aghts out 4.24 Lai. Battle of the Somme. k( It should be noted the*

... point in the scene of the . present str fuggle. We ate probably far from the end of the Battle of the Somme, which, however, is developing into one of the 0-eaten battles of the present war. It may in the course of its events prodire a tactical recision—that ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1916
Newspaper: Newcastle Daily Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 2236 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

rss DRI'TISR

... on, - they have not checked nor eyed 'long.ddaYed our' methodical arid :dogged offentive. • German comments on the battle of the Somme . reveal a new aspect for the prowess of the British' Army, and Gerniany is reluctantly beginningg. to realise that ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1916
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 293 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

[Russian Official.]

... the Somme has prevented them from being able (a* formerly) ii tinuaily borrow troops from the rest of the front in order carry on their adventure on both bank* of the Moreover. the sixth month of tire battle of Verdun begins to-day. The battle opened ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1916
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1762 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TOPIO3 OP THE HOUR

... bride. uncle. General , Bramwell Booth. For over eighteen months it Cis airy Corps. who have just had a chance in the battle of the Somme. have been as unmounted men. and so little has been lnard of this m-ction of the British &flu] ta - inary Force that ...

TOPICS OF THE HOUR

... bride's uncle, General Bramwell Booth. For over eighteen months the Cavalry Corps, who have just bad • chance in the battle of the Somme, have been serving as unmounted men, and so little has been beard of this section of the British Fatpeditionary Force ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1916
Newspaper: Barnsley Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 535 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THS SCGTSMH . EDINBURGH . Satubdat . July 22 , 1916 . Srs . | Moo * ( Last Qr

... men— -dead 252 . wounded and missing 2029 . ( P-9 . ) Ora military correspondent discusses Russia E 2-1 Turkev and the Battle of the Somme . . ' _ ' ( P-7- ) The Queen and Queen Alexandra have each sent £ 250 to the Kitchener National Memorial Fund , which ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1916
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 643 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE MILITARY SITUATION

... THE MILITARY SITUATION BUSSIA AND-TURKEY—THE BATTLE - OF THE SOMME . [ From Oon Military ConnEsi'ONDENt . ] The failure of tho Russians to continuo tl-eir advance on Baghdad by the rouLe through Khanikin , that is , from the northcast , seems to have ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1916
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1789 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Lurgan Hippodrome

... son, edPrivate Of our customers are anticipating their Wlntel’ muel Jones, .ILF., has di from avounds received in the battle of Somme. PDeceased had onz.;(\:'l a short time previ- wants and saVing lOts Of money in the spendously been ‘“‘gassed,” and had ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1916
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2644 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WITH THE TYRONE VOLUNTEERS. Sin Mills lan's Interesting Letter

... Royal lzuriskilling Fusiliers (Tyrone Volunteers), who was wounded in the great offensive on let July (now known as the battle of the Somme). Sergeant Macon-7,, is at present in the General Hos' , Sheffield, England. In reply to a letter shich he had received ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1916
Newspaper: Strabane Weekly News
County: Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 421 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Our Debt

... preparations made by the French and the British, and is clear that the Fatherland is now regarding the outcome of the battle of the Somme with considerable uneasiness. speech which he recently delivered to the Guard Division, the Kaiser said that the Entente ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1916
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 776 | Page: 3 | Tags: none