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PRISONER OF WAR IN GERMANY

... Captain H. R. Fox, K,oyal Engineers. The latter says :— I was shocked at hearing of the death of your gallant son in the battle of the Somme. The news came through a few days before I received your letter. He was attached to me, first as a sapper and then as ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1916
Newspaper: Bromsgrove & Droitwich Messenger
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 667 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SEC: TITT R. E. WYATT. OF BLOCTLEY. WOUNDED

... He obtained his commission in July, 1915, and went oat to a regular battalion in May last. He took part in the great battle of the Somme. sad was wounded while taking part in a night raid on the German trenches THE LATE MOR PRIVATE N HOR.NE, OF ETO. Mr ...

LOCAL GOSSIP

... of one of the battalions of the grand old county regiment in the bitter fighting at Thiepval, in the course of the Battle of the Somme. Not for the Ffirst time, the Prussian Guards have found their masters in men from this Midland shire. General Sir Douglas ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1916
Newspaper: Bromsgrove & Droitwich Messenger
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1236 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

An Amateur Gardonor's Story

... fever, as his battery was nearly annihilated a week or so after. We belongs to the Motor Transport Brigade. VIEW THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME' ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1916
Newspaper: Dudley Chronicle
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1372 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... our efforts since the beginning of the great offs. sive on the Somme. had at last fallen also. This dual success crowned one of the most brilliant operations sins the battle of the Somme started. Combles has, for a fortnight or more, been the immediate ...

REDDITCH PETTY SESSIONS

... and the case was dismissed —Mr. Hobson said the defendant, who had just come back home after being wounded at the Battle of the Somme, asked him whether the Bench did not think, having regard to the circumstances, that his costs ought to be paid.—The ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1916
Newspaper: Bromsgrove & Droitwich Messenger
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1614 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... , and Courmlette have been described by one of the correspondents with our armies as perhaps the greatest sines ON battle of the Somme began. The French advance hal already, in conjunction with the earlier operations of the British, irked the beginning ...

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... countries are being encircled by a ring of foss that will r I y ruining merciless blows at mote waist, HOLDING SOMME CAPTURES. The battle of the Somme has again been Marked by steady and encouraging. it but . Mow progress. and the week has brought fresh succezes ...

CRETAN INSURRECTION. King Constantine's Body-guard

... try- his opiinics are not Tarr severe. Rank and File—tilled. MR. G. C. ANTHONY. Amendet time who tail in the great battle is the Somme country on September 13.16, was Gerald Ogle/icon Anthony, of the Land Valuation Moe, Hereford, and a member of the It=a' ...

John NAILER I SON, Ltd

... restrictioee time Next than:clay lighting-up time in 7.17. Lieut. Alan S. Lloyd, RYA.. who fell in action in August, at tie battle of the Somme. was the son of Mr. John Henry Lloyd, of iiirmitghani, one of the directors of Messrs. Stuarts and Lloyds, Ltd., Halepowen ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1916
Newspaper: County Express
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2579 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A SAO LOSS

... last week roused the audience to a pitch of great excitement. Local residents should note that the oekial film of the Battle of the Somme is at the Queen's Hall nest week. There will be a matinee each day at 3.0. What might have turned out to be a serious ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1916
Newspaper: Dudley Chronicle
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: | Words: 3650 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BROMSGROVE, DROITWICH & REDDITCH WEEKLY MESSENGER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1916. Cole, 8421, Corpl. J., ..

... will be the leading item. The management will also produce at a later date, in November, the famous war picture, Battle of the Somme. NEW CounT TREATRE.—Another serial is to be commenced at this theatre on the first three days of next 'week, when the ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1916
Newspaper: Bromsgrove & Droitwich Messenger
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2916 | Page: 5 | Tags: none