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Commemorating the Battle of the Somme

... whether you will have your bedtime milk warm or cold. The Somme. JUNE is nearly over. and the first day of July remains a day of solemn significance. It is nineteen years since the Battle of the Somme was fought, but it will be more than another nineteen ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1935
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 699 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OUR LONDON ’PHONE: CENTRAL 9693 HISTORY’S ANSWER TO THE GRIM QUESTION: Was the Battle of the Somme

... LONDON ’PHONE: CENTRAL HISTORY’S ANSWER TO THE GRIM QUESTION: Was the Battle of the Somme A German gun buried in Lonage By W.L.A. TWENTY-TWO years after we fought the Battle of the Somme the official historians are now able to tell us what happened. It is ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1939
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 598 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Battle of Somme Commemorated LEEDS BRITISH LEGION SERVICE On a day of wind and rain a thousand members the British

... Battle of Somme Commemorated LEEDS BRITISH LEGION SERVICE On a day of wind and rain a thousand members the British Legion paraded at Leeds War Memorial in The Headrow yesterday to pay tribute to their comrades who fell in the Battle of the Somme, July ...

SOMME MEMORIAL

... SOMME MEMORIAL Tribute to Leeds Pals’ Fellowship TWENTYONE YEARS after the Battle of the Somme, some 70 former members of the 15th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (the Leeds “Pals”) attended a memorial service to their fallen comrades, at Leeds Parish ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 182 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LEEDS INTEREST

... British War memorial which has been erected at Thiepval to commemorate the missing- in the Battle of the Somme. Among the units which suffered heavily in the Somme Battle, and for which this memorial has a special significance, was the Leeds Pals battalion—and ...

MORi; KETItIEMEN TS

... in the Leeds Rifles in 1912. went with them to France in 1915, and was severely wounded on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme in July, 1916. He was afterwards posted to a reserve battalion, with which he served until almost the end of the war ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1934
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TWO IDEAS ON THE WAR

... TWO IDEAS THE WAR. *‘ In Government circles in London, he writes, in a chapter dealing with the Battle of the Somme, there had arisen two conceptions as to how the war should be conducted * While the majority of the Cabinet considered that a solution ...

Published: Friday 25 November 1932
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 57 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... the Beaumont Plamel sector, and from that time onwards the Leeds Pals had their full share .of the fighting. Of the Battle of the Somme what can one say that has not been said so much better on many previous occasions? Those unforgettable days which preceded ...

Published: Wednesday 26 September 1934
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 242 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

EX-SERVICEMEN S PARADE

... EX-SERVICEMEN S PARADE. BRADFORD’S COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME Preliminary arrangements for the annual ex-Servlcemen’s parade in Bradford, on the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, were made at a meeting night of representatives of the ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1934
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

See How

... one of those anniversaries that those whose memories go back to the War will not forget. To-morrow, the fallen in the Battle of the Somme will be commemorated ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1938
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 61 | Page: 6 | Tags: none