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THE FOBFAB DISPATCH

... now officially presumed to have been killed. He had seen considerable service and was previously wounded in the first battle of the Somme in 1916. Deceased who was a ploughman leaves widow and four young bairns who reside in Queen Street. Corporal William ...

Published: Thursday 18 April 1918
Newspaper: Forfar Dispatch
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1715 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BRITISH IN CLOSE TOUCH

... but by cutting down Prince Rupprecht's command. The new Commandant General O'Berst von who distinsniishpd himself in the Somme battles of 1916. Born in 1850, he got his commission in the 3d Foot Guards Regiment at the age of 17. In the Franco-German War ...

Published: Friday 16 August 1918
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2099 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LITERATURE. SKILKSTONIL A Novel. By W. J. Dawson. (London: John Lane, The Malley Head.) hs. Religion is the ..

... numbering between two end three millions were locked in battle, and that their casualties reached the appalling total of at least three-qunrters of n million of men. Comparisons apart, the Battle of the Somme was a colossal struggle, and to have dealt with it ...

Published: Friday 03 May 1918
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2606 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... world's teu! Last Kaltarday, which, a. it wit• named the beginuing of the Rattle of Arras. the mooed great and mriguluary battle of the Somme. still well stand out the rubric. of elms the Red Resurrection, palm into indict let., Wore the potpie dawn of this ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1918
Newspaper: Arbroath Guide
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3407 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... Hunter, B.A. (Oxon.). Second Lieutenant of th e nth Battalion Wiltshire Regiment. killed near Is Boisselle 'luring the Battle of the Somme. July 2. 1916. The sermon was given as a memorial of his elder son. and was preached un January 7, 1917. We are glad ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1918
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4132 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

YOUNG MEN FIRST

... member of Ottsgiw l'orce }' previous to Thi4 is the second time he hai be e n wounded, the Ant orca,zre being in the Battle of the Somme. A War t.'avings A , roofativn. having its headquaitets at the Public Soel, has teen formed for the pati-h. l'attiotte ...

Published: Friday 15 March 1918
Newspaper: Forfar Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4483 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DUNDEE MAJOR MENTIONED

... that he has seen service along tiie whole length of the British front, being in the battles of Festubert, Somme, Beaumont Hamel, Arras, and Ypres. After the third battle of Ypres he received from the Major-General commandirig the division with which he ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1918
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 122 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DUNDEE WOMAN GETS A SURPRISE

... service. lie had fought on the Bulgarian front, in Egypt, Palestine, and on the Somme. He took part in the capture of Gaza and Jaffa, and fought in five battles on the Somme front. held the rank of corporal, and had a clean sheet in the army. 1 Sheriff ...

Published: Wednesday 23 October 1918
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 337 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A DUEL TO THE DEATH

... MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1918. A PROPHET IS A PERSON WHO EXPECTS THE UNEXPECTED. On the Shell-Torn Somme Battle-Ground. The Somme arfifa. is again the scene of battle compared with which in point of the numbers engaged and the intensity of the conflict the last ...

Published: Monday 25 March 1918
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 620 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BRITISH GUNS ROAR LIKE THUNDER

... move till darkness sot in. The sergeant said he had been the front 24 months, and had taken part in all the worst battles since the Somme, but he had never seen or heard anything so awful as the German barrage at the commencement of this offensive. The ...

Published: Friday 29 March 1918
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 716 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WHERE SONGS CHANGE HANDS

... reader oblige with a copy of the poem entitled ” Th© Sheugh of the Shuttle?” for comes of—•'Sergeant Daddy. V.0.; The Battle of the“Somme; and ‘‘How Harry Won the V.C.” ‘ Highland Laddies” would be indebted anv !‘. er „ ty in w copies the songs— Tho Star ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1918
Newspaper: Dundee People's Journal
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 562 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HAIG'S REVIEW OF HIS VICTORY

... FICHTINC IN SOMME BATTLE Has Not Diminished Spirit Of Our Gallant Men in France. The following supplementary telegraphio despatch has been received from General Headquarters in France timed 3.50 p.m., Friday:— In the series of successful battles on the Somme ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1918
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1117 | Page: 3 | Tags: none