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... Vale, is also home on leave after seeing many sides of a soldier's life. He was in the Battles of the Somme, Richburgh, Mamets Wood and Suany other notable battles. He has come across two Ogmore lads in his travels, namely Evan Jones and Ned Jones, John ...

Published: Friday 15 December 1916
Newspaper: Glamorgan Gazette
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1109 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SATURDAY. DECEMBER 16tb, 1916. DOW'.AIB NM for . Laconia Billiard Ball, Unior, ..raet.. is now opened , and it will

... reported missing. Private A. Erma Royal Welds Fusiliers, enlisted last Febrisary, and was-last heard on Oct. Sth. in the battle of the Somme. There is a possibility that he has been taken a prisoner. He is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Basil Evans, the ...

Published: Saturday 16 December 1916
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1222 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TABERNACL. PORTHCAWL

... has been received at Porthcawl that Gunner F. H. Webb, of Sub-section A. has been wounded in the knee during the battle of the Somme. and is at present in hospital at Benwell. Newcastle-on-Tyne. Gunner Webb, previous to the outbOak of war, was in the ...

Published: Thursday 21 December 1916
Newspaper: Porthcawl News
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 285 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

COEDYBRYN

... hospital—Pte. D. Thonum, Rrynkyfryd, Bwlebygroes, Una been invalided home, suffering from shell stook received in the battle of the SOMMe. Their many friends wish them & speedy recovery.—Private Jack Wilson. Penbeilimawr. was also home on leave after u ndergoing ...

Published: Thursday 21 December 1916
Newspaper: Welsh Gazette
County: Cardiganshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 188 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FOR MOLESTING LADY IN RAILWAY

... Jones, butcher, High Street, Ogmore Vale, is now progressing favourably. He received severe gunshot 'wounds in the battle of the Somme and is now in Cyngfield Hospital, Shrewsbury, England. Pte. Hopkin Jones, A.S.C., a brother of the above, is home on ...

Published: Friday 22 December 1916
Newspaper: Glamorgan Gazette
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 652 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

December 23 1916 The Aberdare Leader XMAS SHOPPING UNDOUBTEDLY THE BEST PLAC TO GET SUITABLE XMAS and NEW YEAR ..

... Avenue came home leave a few after being hospital for a considerable time sustained in the knee 27th whilst engaged in battle of the Somme returned depot rejoin his regiment AYalter Bevan 10th Battalion RAA'F of Glanlay Street arrived last Thursday night ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1916
Newspaper: Aberdare Leader
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2622 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE BATTLE OF VERDUN

... push in the West, by massing thousands of troops there. and ,ending out vast quantities of ammunition. On July 1 the battle of the Somme opened, and on the first day the German front was broken on a distance of sixteen mies. Mcntauban and Mametz were taken ...

Published: Friday 29 December 1916
Newspaper: Glamorgan Gazette
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 928 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TIM PLASM'

... about the fight and its program and the number of prisoner, I had pawed as the road. He had been through phases of the Battle of the Somme, mid it was hard to be koonkid out new the hour of victory. 'But they have never thanked es,' he raid. I asked what ...

Published: Friday 29 December 1916
Newspaper: Flintshire County Herald
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Illustrated | Words: 350 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EIELIVIORE THE SITUATION

... litany crowned their work by a victory which left prisoners and 115 heavy and held guns in their hand,. • • • 'Pus Battle of the Somme lasted from July let to the end of September, with only daily 'intervals of inactivity, and after • month of emotion ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1916
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1028 | Page: 7 | Tags: none