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ROLL OF HONOUR

... Premier’s knock-out theoi-y of military success in the sober and cautious report of Sir Douglas Haig the Five Months’ Battle of the Somme. That battle has done great things and represents more than one \ictory over the Central Powers. It did three things, in fact ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 988 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HXltm AH9> ABTI THCNDEB. ANOTHEB NOTE PBOM THE BA'

... labours mt.” Our accompaniment was the thunder of our artillery, and yon can have no conception what that is like in this Battle of the Somme.” It never cesses day or night As we sing the verses of the hymn, can hear our shells hurtling through the air, and ...

IRE RESORT& The Somme Battle

... IRE RESORT& The Somme Battle. The German Emperor has quit© recently Seoorated. and otherwise honoured certain alleged victors the Somme battle, whose triumph consists in the fact that they were not actually swept away to destruction before the Bright ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1475 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

... _ NEW OFFICERS IN TITF: MINISTRY

... of Education. THE BATTLE OFF JUTLAND. During the year Admiral Jellicoe kept a sleepless vigil in the North Sea, and on one occasion only ha' 4 the German Navy been bold enough to hive the eafe shelter of the Kiel Canal and give battle. German ships have ...

Published: Friday 29 December 1916
Newspaper: Atherstone News and Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1849 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE BIEMINGr'AM DAILY POST, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1916. this and the succeeding days our front was carried ..

... from the northern limits the battle front to beyond Ypres was necessarily secondary one, but their task was neither light nor unimportant. While required to give precedence in all respects to the needs of the Somme battle, they were responsible for the ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 5120 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Sir Douglas Haig’s Dispatches. : Sir Douglas Haig's detailed dispatches on the battles of the Somme will, it is ..

... Sir Douglas Haig’s Dispatches. : Sir Douglas Haig's detailed dispatches on the battles of the Somme will, it is thought; be published on or about January 1. ‘They witll furnish some of the most absorbing war reading we've had yet. ...

Published: Friday 29 December 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 40 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

KENILWORTH SOLDIER; lIOME ON LEAVE

... 27th. 1915, and this is his first leave. He is in the - K.U.R., and has seen action in several battles before the Somme battle, and having been on the Somme front from July 3rd till he came home it does not require much imagination to realise that the ...

Published: Saturday 16 December 1916
Newspaper: Kenilworth Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE HILL OF THE BATTLEFIELD

... rest. Our accompaniment was the thunder of our artillery, and you ran have no conception what that is like in this Battle of the Somme—it never ceasre. day or night. -As sing the verses of the hymn can hear our shell* hurtling through the air. and evennow ...

Published: Saturday 16 December 1916
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2115 | Page: 3 | Tags: none