Beo.*L>eut. H. E. Sawtoell
... enlisted orivatc in the Preston Pals.” He was given a commission and awarded the military medal for gallant work the battle of the Somme in 1916. ...
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DEATH OF A SEASCALE SOLDIER IN HOSPITAL
... daughter of Mr. W. P. Sim, Seascale. Private: Close joined the Lonsdale Battalion. He was wounded on Ist July at the battle of the Somme, and was invalided home. On returning to his military duties he has been on home service at Barrow, Crosby, and Oswestry ...
HAS THE OFFENSIVE BEGUN?
... in 1914, among the towns that they held bein, and Peronne. Over a year ago, f fo) pepe. t he British success at the Battle of the Somme, they were forced to retreat to a depth of thirty miles on a front 2 of almost a hundred miles, and their effort if ...
THE ANCIENT ISLAND OF SAINTS
... of the the Cheshires and afterwards transferred to one of the tant. “He was wound t, of which he became during the battle of the Somme, wheo he received the military cross for conspicuous gal- lantry. Subsequent and wen! he was transferred to the Welsb ...
THE CALL FOR CLASS A MEN
... it is governed by ‘the St Helens Town Council, and in the latter b¥ the Whiston Rural District Coumncil. The second battle of the Somme is being fmi-ght by armies in the open, writes Mr. .P ercival Phillips, the correspondent of the Daily Dispatech™” and ...
GREENODD SOLDIER’S DEATH
... his home in Carlisle. He has been pronounced unfit for further military service. He was wounded in the foot at the Battle of the Somme. A mural monument of white Sicilian marble on a slab of slate was unveiled on the gable end of a house in Beech Street ...
BRAVERY IN THE FIELD. SERGEANT SPACKMAN’S V.C
... native of ‘Cockermouth,” by the Mayor of New-castle. Private Roney participated in the fighting in Gallipoli and in the Battle ‘of the Somme. In a letter 'to his sister he says:— “One of our biggest achievements was the capture of Thiepval, and it was here ...
ATTACKS DEVELOPING SOUTH OF THE SOMME
... says: We have now reached the sixth ay of the battle. e@ enemy so far is unable to record any decision. It has been possible for him, it is e, to re- take a portion of the ground he lost the battle of the Somme, but u p to the present he has in no way interfered ...
t WAR PORTRAIITS D NEWS THE BIG OFFENSIVE. GERMAN ASSAULT OVER SOMME BATTLE FIELD. A FIFTY MILE FRONT
... t WAR D NEWS THE BIG OFFENSIVE. GERMAN ASSAULT OVER SOMME BATTLE FIELD. A FIFTY MILE FRONT. Just as aperolationa were ripening that the intended to make their big attack in Italy. as more likely to bring them leas eostly vietory, comes the news of s big ...
MASSED ATTACKS. PRESSED WITH GREATEST VIGOUR AHD
... Beaumetz, and stretch of the country east and south-east Bapaurt© which abandoned to in his retreat last March after the .battles of the Somme. By rapid turning movement from both wings would hope to capture many of our men and guns. It is a menace which cannot ...
GREATEST BATTLE IN HISTORY
... GREATEST BATTLE IN HISTORY. OPENING OF THE GREAT WESTERN OFFENSIVE. The loss expected and prepared for attack by the Germans on the Western Front began on Thursday over a battle line of about fifty miles from north to &oath. The full story is not yet ...