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POLICE COURT NEWS. A PRETENDED HERO

... stripes, he explained that he was wounded three times in the battle of the Somme, and as to his decorations, he said he won the D.C.M. and the Military Medal on one day at the secdnd battle of Ypres. He was taken to the police station, and on the following ...

Published: Saturday 15 December 1917
Newspaper: Bayswater Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 279 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

COMERT FOR V.A.,. FOWL

... the concert was a song, capitally rendered by Mr. George Eames, a discharged soldier who had lost his sight at the Battle of the Somme. All the artistes taking part did excellently, but special reference mast be made to the efforts of Miss Lilian Hanford ...

Published: Saturday 15 December 1917
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 335 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

JOURNAL OF THE UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION

... October number of this periodical is only now to hand; it contains a very clear and eminently instructive article on the Battle of the Somme, by Captain A. V. Gompertz, R.E., in which he has succeeded in being brief without sacrifice of any important features ...

Published: Saturday 15 December 1917
Newspaper: Army and Navy Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 624 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A SOLDIER'S PLUCKY ACT

... feature of the concert was a song, capitally rendered by Mr. George Eames, a discharged soldier who lost his sight at the Battle of the Somme. All the artistes taking part did excellently, but special reference must be made to the efforts of Miss Lilian Hanford ...

WAR EXHIBITION

... before, will include a number of very interesting. naval exhibits, the table on which Sir Douglas Haig planned the battle of the Somme, guns of all kinds and sizes, British and German trench signs, and a number of large-scale relief maps and other things ...

Published: Saturday 15 December 1917
Newspaper: Westminster Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 694 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

The Times Book Club

... presents is provei by the huge crowds who visit The Times Book Club. 380 Oxford-street. The war element is there. The Battles of the Somme are written by the well-known war correspondent Philip Gibbs: another writer. Mr. G. Ward Price. has contributed The ...

Published: Thursday 20 December 1917
Newspaper: Hampstead News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 3 | Tags: none