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A MONTH'S VIOLENT BOMBARDMENT

... Paris, Monday. The correspondent of Liberte on Somme front says:—The mutual bombardment noted in the last British communique is one of the most violent since the beginning of the battle of the Somme. The cannonade has been intense not only on both banks ...

Published: Tuesday 12 December 1916
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 106 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

%Ks, Martinis ant Nu*

... %Ks, Martinis ant Nu*. DI/ann. On the 22rd inst., killed at the battle of the Somme, George William Giles, of the Bth Royal Berke Regt., second son of Alfred Gilee, Compton Terrace, Wallingford, aged 24 years. Oa the 26th inst., at sois, wife of Mr. Henry ...

Published: Friday 29 December 1916
Newspaper: Berks and Oxon Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 116 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE BIG PUSH IN THE WEST

... push in the West, by maa.iug thousands of troops there. and wilding out v:ut quantities of anununition. On July 1 the battle of the Somme opened, and on the fitvt day the German front Iras broken on a distance of sixteen miles. Montauban and Mamets were ...

Published: Friday 29 December 1916
Newspaper: Bicester Herald
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 343 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

35,000 PUISOSEUS

... Dominion and quarter of the Empire, whether Regulars, Territorials, or men of the New Armies, have borne a share in the Battle of the Somme. While some have Man more tortunate than others in opportunities for diatinciaon, all have done 11.4 duty nobly. Amoug ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1916
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 345 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TUE IiEItICS A N (`XON A DVERTTSER- F 1:T1) tY,

... call this show a battle, still less a victory.' He was a St. Paul's School boy, so he told me. I heard that he died that evening at Pliehrilliers, unthanked by Parliament. The Battle of the Somme has been one of the greatest battles in the history of ...

Published: Friday 29 December 1916
Newspaper: Berks and Oxon Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1909 | Page: 2 | Tags: none