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FULL OFFICIAL NARRATIVE OF THE - BATTLE OF THE SOMME. STORY OF THE OPERATIONS TOLD BY SIR DOUGLAS HAIG. THE

... FULL OFFICIAL NARRATIVE OF THE - BATTLE OF THE SOMME. STORY OF THE OPERATIONS TOLD BY SIR DOUGLAS HAIG. THE THREE OBJECTS OF THE CAMPAIGN ACHIEVED. LONG STEP TOWARDS THE FINAL VICTORY OF ALLIED CAUSE.” BAD WEATHER PUTS A TEMPORARY STOP TO THE CAMPAIGN ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1286 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

History’s Biggest Battle. From whatever point view it may regarded, the battle of the Somme the biggest the, ..

... History’s Biggest Battle. From whatever point view it may regarded, the battle of the Somme the biggest the, world historv. The preparations made were on a hitherto unknown. Never since time began has such a huge, concentration of men and materials of ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1916
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 563 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TUI Sprlna Comes

... green leaves On on© place great leaves even now conceal the very wherealiouts of trench pounded and captured during the battle of the Somme. ...

Published: Friday 01 December 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 128 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SIR H. RAWLINSON AND SIR H. GOUGH

... Dominion and quarter of the Empire, whether Regulars, Territorials, men of the New Armies, have borne a share in the Battle of the Somme. While have been more fortonate than others in opportunities for distinction, all have done their duty nobly. Among ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 259 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Roumania

... which is weighing upon the people.” Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatch. A despatch from Sir Douglas Haig describing the battle of the Somme was issued yesterday, and appears in full on Pages 4 and 5. AUSTRIANS SHELL GORIZIA. SCANDINAVIA AND THE PEACE MOVE ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 326 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BALFOUR

... CENSURE UPON JOFFRE. BIG GUN BATTLE ON THE SOMME. Hriti*h .Sheliimi German Line near Hcainnont. Paris. Monday. The French communique to-night says: Thera was marked artillery activity on both sides on the front north of the Somme and in the region of Douaumont ...

Published: Tuesday 05 December 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 367 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE LIGHTING HESTRICTIONB

... main objects, any one of which would, in the opinion of the Commander-in-Chief, have been sufficient itself to justify the Somme battle had been accomplished. It will be noticed that to break through the German line was not one of Sir Douglas Haig’s objectives ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 559 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... manifesto issued by the Gear.—Wireless Press. WESTERN FRONT. RAIDS AND ARTILLERY BATTLE ON THE SOMME. GERMAN CLAIMS AT VERDUN. [Sir DoagUs Haig's great story of the Somme Battle will found Page 6.J [British OrnciaL Report. J The following despatch was issued ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 820 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MOST VIOLENT SINCE START OF

... rest the front. The correspondent of the ** Liberie the Somme says:—“ The mutual bombardment noted in the British communique is one of the roost violent since the beginning the battle of the Somme. The cannonade has been intense, not only both banka of ...

Published: Tuesday 12 December 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1021 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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

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

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