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THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. GENERAL HAIG’S RTIPORT. comprehensive review of the recent operations on the Sonmie has been furnished General Haig, the main points of which are the end of September the British had taken 26.735 prisoners, and had engaged German ...

Published: Friday 06 October 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 375 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ANOTHER D.C.H. FOR COVENTRY

... Engineers, has been awarded the D.C.M. for gallant conduct and devotion to duty the field on the lint and July during the battle of the Somme. Sergt. Grey is the son of Sergt.-Major John Grey, Wine Lodge, Burges, and was connected with the St. Osburgs Boys Brigade ...

Published: Friday 06 October 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 69 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

JORPOBAL BURTON, . Killed. D.C.M. FOB COVENTRY SOLDIEB. Sergeant W. G. Grey, Royal Engineers, son of Sergeant ..

... Burges, Coventry has been awarded the D.C.M. for gallantry and devotion duty on the field on July Ist and during the battle of the Somme. He was formerly connected with the St. Osburg's Boys Brigade, and employed in the drawing office of Messrs. Alfred ...

Published: Friday 13 October 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 71 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

– Bl il il 29 to 45, ALBERT STREET,

... military medal for conspicuous gallantry at the Battle of the Somme. He is the youngest of three sons who juined the colours at the outbreak of War. The eldest (Corpl. John Rose (Warwicks) , was killed at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle; and the second, Private ...

Published: Friday 20 October 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 142 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

GUNNER DEELEY

... Coventry, have been informed that their son, Gunner E. Deely, R.F.A., was wounded by shrapnel in the thigh in the Battle of the Somme. He is now in a Liverpool hospital. Before enlisting he was employed at the Swift works, AR MR e B R S % 'k{’;it%@.::a ...

Published: Friday 27 October 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 149 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

A PROFESSOR ON THE DURATION OF THE WAR

... College, London, Monday night, The Turning Tide of War, said, assuming there were 122 German divisions during the battle of the Somme, the French ajul ourselves had defeated something half the notal German forces, or something like a million men in all ...

Published: Tuesday 03 October 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DEATH OF PTE. ARNOLI BROWN. —f Formerly Student Ministei Queen's Road. The sad news W been received of live death,

... London Rifle Brigade, the youngest son of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Brcwn, w'jio has been killed in action in the great battle on the Somme. Mr. prow 11 had passed unscathed through some of the fiercest fighting the war. 2nd was among the troops who entered ...

Published: Thursday 19 October 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 302 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE ALLIES' GAINS ON THE SOME

... The German communique of October 9th defies almost any denial, so imaginative is it. General von asserts that the battle of the Somme is redoubling in intensity on front 25 kilometres, and that General von Bulow's troops have not lost an inch of ground ...

Published: Tuesday 10 October 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 455 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BRITISH ADVANCE NORTH-EAST OF EAUCOURT

... organised aerial observation. At night the villages were also frequently bombed aeroplanes. SOMME EXPERIENCE. The reports of the experience gained the battle of the Somme, says this German document, unanimously agree to the necessity toi an increased allotment ...

Published: Friday 06 October 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1964 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AFTER A HUNDRED DAYS

... OF ANT DISTRICT. Lighting-up time, 5.50. Restricted lighting, 6.50 p.m. 4.47 a.m. MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1916. The great battle of the Somme has now lasted hundred days. The time will shortly be upon our victorious army when incessant fighting, such as we have ...

Published: Monday 09 October 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 675 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FIRE FRENCH PROGRESS BEFORE VERDUN

... knows of nothing like the fight, in which you are taking part, and greatness of your deeds. For centuries come The battle on the Somme will stand as a brilliant example whole nation's determination to ' inr. In you this determination 'S personified—the ...

Published: Thursday 26 October 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1675 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ON THE EVE OF THE GREAT BATTLE

... THE EVE OF THE GREAT BATTLE. Imperial Brotherhood. EAGER FOR THE FRAY. INCIDENTS BEFORE THE SOMME OFFENSIVE (From Malcolm Rets, War Correspondent with the New Zealand Forces.) NEW ZEALAND CAMP, 14th September. Yesterday walked with two friends across ...

Published: Monday 09 October 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1758 | Page: 2 | Tags: none