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THE RETURN JOURNEY

... principal street of Pqrtadown was spanned an arch bearing appropriate references to the victory of the Boyne and the Battle of the Somme, and there was a lavish display of flags, whilat the route was lined enthusiastic spectators. The Portadown District ...

Published: Friday 13 July 1917
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 438 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE BRAID

... loval citizen of the ‘lfimrm‘ who can vecall without feelings of ‘hrne the noble deeds of the Ulster Division at the Battle of the Somme last vear, also mlcht on *ha Ist July—the actual date of the Rattle of the Boyne. Those who have fallen-- and whose ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1917
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 464 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MENUS REST IT II E

... Ili, hill as paid: bat there not math to he raid for 16. intelligence of thnw• who nit to close with it.. offer. The battle ot the Somme has isdeed. proved the oecond turning-notht in the .war. which hum we. firstly, the eativersioa .f theliernian etrategic ...

Published: Wednesday 28 March 1917
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 457 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NEWS OF LOCAL SOLDIERS

... Volunteers, who was on a visit home to his parents at Upper Carnany, has left to rejoin his regiment. He was wounded at the battle of the Somme, receiving a shrapnel bullet through his right. hand. Private Samuel Taylor, Royal Irish Rifles. officially reported ...

GERMAN LOSSES IN 1916

... successes on the Somme lies in the fact that they were made the amassment of the cue nrjust after the French army had beaten off the greatest assault which the enemy had ever been able to deliver. During the first fortnight the battle of the Somme the French ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1917
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 472 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MENTIONED IN DESPATCHEa

... awarded the Military Cross for rescuing wounded onder'fira at the battle of Loos in 1915, and gazetted a bar to the M.C. for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at-the battle of the Somme last year. Ee has now been awarded the D.S.O. for bravery tho ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1917
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 405 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE SUNMANINE MENACE

... Ltd, Paternoster How, London E. C. 2 price 1. 3d) try Mr. John Buchan. hieh has jui l t been issued, dealing with battle of the Somme and the operations up to 13th Noventher, 1916, contains a striking tribute to the work of the Ulster Division on Ist ...

Published: Friday 27 April 1917
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 460 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BY PRIVATE WIRE

... Endurance and Valour. The •' rimef.” reforrin* to the capture of Passcbend.tclc, even the n-cords of lighting in the great battle of the. Somme excel the story of the ejiduranoe and the valour ahonn by the British army under almost incredibly difficult and baffling ...

Published: Thursday 08 November 1917
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 474 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

...10.1.2 Ai V ZIAA.III,OWr

... log while attthdreititna in ouch condition without the ring of one day beteg outflanked. The battle from Arr.' to the i. therefore a of the Battle of the Somme. which led the enemy to the emearity of retiring. If the Germans here decided to do so it is ...

Published: Tuesday 20 March 1917
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 480 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TENTH BATTALION CASUALTIES

... have served with the colours since the outbreak of war, has been wounded in the hand. He was previously wounded in the battle of the Somme. He is a eon of Mr. Thomas Waddell, Blind-gate Street, Coleraine. A brother—Private Thomas Waddell, 10th Inniskillings---is ...

FRITZ KNOW N BETTER New

... development once the battle at the Somme. Some at the gunners wha helped to lay that nit great barrage had hardly u lire •hell bred until 'lie! toned themties in pmation for the ttarh on July I. Eiery gunner who shot In the battle of Areas • ante trained ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1917
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 437 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MILITARY GROSS FOR BELFAST OFFICER

... battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles March. 1916. and was wounded during the attack before Thiepval the opening the battle of the Somme Ist July of that vear. On recovering be rejoined his battalion, and had th© good fortune come unscathed through the ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1917
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 457 | Page: 8 | Tags: none