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... were not successes at all. Nineteen sixteen brought tv all-important events in the Jutland beaitle, and the Somme episode. The Jutland battle is still a sore point with many sturdy Britishers. Consequences have proved to us (far more than the communiqués ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1917
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1712 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Lodging House

... picture that the audiences were not slow to appreciate was the showing of wounded heroes who had taker, part in tbe battles of the Somme. The Gazette of war pictures and topical events of the week was also very well received. The orchestra performed a ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1917
Newspaper: Birkenhead News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 599 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FEEBLE. RESISTANCE

... progressed, four-fifths of the total number of divisions engaged on the western front were thrown one after another into the Somme battle, some of them twice laid some three times; and towards the end of the operations, when the broke, t can be no ather un ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1917
Newspaper: Penrith Observer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 551 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BOLTON RECRUITS

... In of th*» i«w»rv of Sergeant Jack Crook, Lancashire Fnsiliera, of Chorleyrd.. Heath Chei-nock, daring the recent battles on the Somme, for received the Militerr Mrdsl. n was held Tuesday Parish Room, '- Charnock. when he was the n^rse gold. Mr. C. ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1917
Newspaper: Bolton Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 274 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WAR PENSIONS AND SEPARATION ALLOWANCES. -UPPLEMENTARY GRANTS: WHO MAY GET THEM AND HOW

... Crook. Lancashire Feathers, of Cliorlee- Unite(' Kingdom iu respect of rd.. Heath Charecek, during the recent I Rena battles on the Somme. for which lie tee/Overt I lotetest and instalments payable in rethe Militaty Metal . a meeting was held on *poet of ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1917
Newspaper: Bolton Journal & Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2618 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BATTLE OF THE SCMME. “A FULL HALF” OF THE GERMAN ARMY BEATEN. SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S DISPATCH

... BATTLE OF THE SCMME. “A FULL HALF” OF THE GERMAN ARMY BEATEN. SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S DISPATCH. The story of the Battle of the Somme, which lasted from JnlL 1 to November 18, is told in Sir Douglas Haig’s dispatch, which fills sixteen pages of the “London ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1917
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Diary of the War for December

... length of the Somme front from the French. 98 Von Mackensen’s troops advance towards the Sereth. Germans gain a little ground west of the Meuse. 29 Von Mackensen captures Bordesiti, on the river Rimnik. 30— Sir Douglas Haig’s despatch of the Battle of the Somme ...

1917 HERO OF MANY FIGHTS Veteran Campaigner’s Sacrifice DISTINCTION -SOLDIER PRIVATE BROCKLEHURST King’s Own ..

... ago participated in some heavy fighting He passed scatheless the engagements of Mons Neuve Chap-pelteLa Basse arid the battle on Somme He was home on five days’ furlough twelve months ays ago His brother Mr Robert Brooklehurst went through the South African ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1917
Newspaper: Macclesfield Times
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4985 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Death of Mr. A. H. Darrell

... Mainegato Road, Morning 10.30, Evening 6, Rev. 3. R. Jones. Weekly Notes. THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME AND AFTER. Sir Douglas Hails official account of the Battle of the Somme—the greatest battle in the history of the world—is highly encouraging. ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1917
Newspaper: Millom Gazette
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1134 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY.—A much d«'ired want ha* just happlied the gift of a pall from Mrs. J. R. Thornton. The

... with trench feet, leas of speech and rheumatism Dublin Castle Hospital. joined the Guards Nov. 17th. 1915, and in Uw* battle of the Somme. CHESTER CORPORAL HOME FROM THE FRONT.—CorpL Form*tone, of the Cheshire-. son of Mr. Fred Form-tone. of 39. Glad-tone ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1917
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 1576 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE DECISIVE YEAR

... strength such as they exhausted lor show place when 1 . only hed a tering failure of the last great Germa Since then the Battle of the Somme in the west had only just nbers, ont to French reaction at Verdun have co established the ascendancy, both mor would ...

Published: Monday 08 January 1917
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 603 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE NEW RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR

... the familiar, The feeling in reeponsible cir just now is much like that which hs 18 ongst the troops in France ever s battle of the Somme discovered to them | of their superiority over the German. ] taken summed up in the words which a p nesses member of ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1917
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 528 | Page: 3 | Tags: none