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A highly interesting narrative , which adds materially to _ jthe public knowledge , is given by Sir . Douglas

... the battles in which the rew armies were engaged from the beginning of tha Arras offensive in April last to the close of tho struggle in Flanders in . November . They- successfully withstood severer tests than any imposed upon them at the Somme ; they ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1803 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WHAT THE ITALIANS THliNii OF OTJR HIGHLANDERS

... achievements in the present war . They fought superbly in tie fust and third battles of Ypres , at Fcstubert , at Loos , at Arras , and on the Somme . At the first battle of Ypres , where the English Army , incredibly inferior in numbers , guns , and ...

Published: Monday 04 February 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1374 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Roll of Honour

... roles were changed, and that the were aiming tho goal have been striving | hard attain since the beginning of the i battle of the Somme. Rattia's Doing*. THE BREST SILENCE. GERMANS THE WIRE* Daily correspondent states that to four days' from Brest is lirokon ...

Published: Friday 08 February 1918
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1100 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NGIxISH SOLDIERS IN ITALI

... the second battle of Ypres , -vrhen the Germans during three -weeks in . Apr il and May 1915 renewed their attempt to break the 3 eft wing of the Allies , that the new English infantry showed of ¦ wba . t stuff they were made . The battle opened by a ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1515 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ROTMi vSCOTS ^ tTHE ^ SCJMME UATTLEFIELD ; INOIBENTS

... cataclysm of those early days on tho Somme . Tho 15 th and 16 th Koyal Scots wero posted beforo the village and close to where the mine exploded , whon tho advance began . The story ef tho advance is written on the Dcld of battle at various points under the eye ...

Published: Monday 25 February 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2247 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

scots battalions in Action . * TRAMWAYMEN AND THE GUNS

... Augustwhich is believed to bo a record . The Glasgow Tramways ' battalion passed through Albert , tho great gateway to the battle of tho Somme , whoro tho Madonna , holding aloft tho infant Christ , now extends her arms in a seemingly impossiblo position , from ...

Published: Friday 08 March 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2147 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Sir Arthur Conaa Doyle s History of the War q THE BRITISH CAMPAIGN IS FRANCE AXD FLAXDERS , . Vol

... AXD FLAXDERS , . Vol . III ., 1916 , in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gives the first detailed account of the gigantic Battle of the Somme . Uniform ¦ with above— The British Campaign in France and Flanders , Vol . I ., 1914 ( Third edition}— The British ...

Published: Thursday 21 March 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 341 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Foe five days the German attacks m mass on the fifty miles of front between the Sensee and-the Oise have

... the close of yesterday they may be said to have recovered the greater part of the area won by the Allies in the great battles of the Somme in ihe summer of 1916 and of ihe ^ jrqund subsequentl y evacuated by the German armies . Such gains must Be measured ...

Published: Tuesday 26 March 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1690 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

^ EDKNriiD y- Wwm : ; . ' DESGRiPTioi ^ : ; OUR TROOPS' -GREAT FIGSI

... Wood ; . German guns were shelling Fnoourt Wood arid village and Matnetj , tneir old line at the begmningofthe First Battle of tho Somme * , It was not a particularly he&vj bombardtne nt-npthmg like outs , which was hammering fiercely at the enemy ' s ...

Published: Tuesday 26 March 1918
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2810 | Page: 5 | Tags: none