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SUNDAY'S BATTLE ON THE SOMME

... SUNDAY'S BATTLE ON THE ALLIES' CO-OPERATION. The Franco-British attack on the line be. tween Delville Wood and the Somme, made on Sunday, says Mr. Warner Allen, was preceded by the usual heavy artillery preparation. At four o'clock in the morning nearry ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1916
Newspaper: Bromsgrove & Droitwich Messenger
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 421 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. ENEMY ATTACKS DEFEATED

... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. ENEMY ATTACKS DEFEATED. London, Aug. 3.—Paris : A communique says :—We repulsed several enemy attacks on Monacu Farm. An enemy counter-attack south of Estrees broke down under our fire. We organised our new positions between Monacu ...

The Late Captain Ralphs

... wan held in St. Mark’s Church to the late Ceplain Walter Jool Ralphs, 12th Bettery, RF.A., who fell in aomon in the battle of the Somme on July 15th. The preacher was the Rev. Canon Bird, vicar dCthhnudi.Mybndg,andM Dean of Mottramn, and he spoke of Captain ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1916
Newspaper: Stalybridge Reporter
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A Bantam Fighter. WILL SEND HIS WIFE PIECE OF DEAD – GERMAN'S COAT

... i s the course of- which he sans:—Qh, I hese had a terriblattme. Ira been Phan hell. - I been. and am yet, in the battle of the Somme. It is too awful to tell von about. While I am wrAing this letter Shells are banging all around. You should see us going ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1916
Newspaper: Birkenhead News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 182 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

GREAT INFLUX OF WOUNDED

... utmost during the week, and the whole the 24 beds arc now occupied with men some of whom have been wounded in the recent battle on the Somme. Since the commencement of the war 182 wounded soldiers have been treated at the Home, all of whom have been discharged ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1916
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 209 | Page: 5 | 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

BAOQIPI REMNANTS FOUND At LA BOISHIiLE

... BAOQIPI REMNANTS FOUND At LA BOISHIiLE. An internetipg local relic from the Battle of tho Somme baa been forwarded New cattle. Oo July 7th a captain Mae Boyal FieM Artillery peattnc oner what bad been the point of the enetny’e aalient at La Bolaelle. ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1916
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 291 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

KIRKCALDY FUSILIER REPORTED MISSING

... tlnxnv'h the battle of Loos 25th September without scratch. Previous to enlisting was employed at the Fife Linoleum Works. Private Geo. Bain, Gordon Highlanders, son-inlav has also been wounded in the back and leg in the battle of the Somme on Ist July ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1916
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 272 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SOUTH_ DITISION

... Robert etagerof the onrorea in f. - • et the Ulster Spinning . . . . : .m.ep who ormer •••• • ff haa troweled in the battle of the Somme ; and. is new in hospital at Oxford. Rittman George A. Hawthorne. South Belfast Volonteencleairben returned as Hie leather ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1916
Newspaper: Belfast Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 326 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

STEWART & STEWART

... heartbeats of menaced kingdoms; full of those incidents which, to use the phrase of the witty Irish officer whose of the battle of the Somme appeared in the Press a few days ago, you can't get on paper. Two years 31 cataclysmic history which no flying historian ...

TIIE NEW MAIL'S NEWS. LORD DERBY ON THE BRITISH OFFENSIVE

... separate incursion through the German front —a form of attack singularly without permanent value and highly dangerous. The battle of the Somme, Lord Derby declared, had emphatically demonstrated that the British medical organization was markedly superior to that ...

Verdun

... Verdun. The temporary lull in the battle of the Somme brings the action before Verdun into view again at a significant moment. Sins the Allied offensive on the Somme began the Germans have maintained a of intermittent attacks before Verdun. As the progress ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1916
Newspaper: Evening Irish Times
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 516 | Page: 6 | Tags: none