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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

After 21 Years MRS. P. CRONIN, of Feoffees Square, Gowthorpe, Selby, has been Informed by the Imperial War ..

... has been Informed by the Imperial War Graves Commission that the body of her son, who was reported missing after the battle of the Somme on September 25, 1916, has been found near Les Boeufs, in France, and has been reburied in the London Cemetery extension ...

Published: Saturday 25 September 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 79 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

“ BRUTAL ” TEXT ON MEMORIAL

... as Brutal,” by Canon Phythian-Adams, M.C., D. 5.0., of Carlisle, in a Somme commemoration address at Carlisle last night. Canon Phythian-Adams, who fought at the Battle of the Somme, said that London War memorial were the words: Saul has slain his thousands ...

Published: Monday 05 July 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 93 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE MAYOR PREPARED

... everything prepared, and his wife hopes she will be allowed present. Bhe recalls that when she was a girl, after the Battle of the Somme. she presented the Duke, then Prince of Wales, with a bouquet, and received a kiss on the cheek as reward. —British ...

Published: Tuesday 04 May 1937
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

OLD WHITBY’S MONSTERS Falls of Rock Disclose Footprint Casts From Our Own Correspondent WHITBY, Thursday ..

... Leeds Pals Dies from Tuberculosis Injuries sustained by a member of the Leeds Pals when blown up by a shell during the Battle of the Somme were mentioned at the inquest, yesterday, on Hamlet Dobson (51), of Stonegate Street. A doctor stated in evidence that ...

Published: Friday 18 June 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 506 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

“CIVILIAN HELPS”

... that deserters and absentees can easily board them level crossings.” One great road expert actually said during the battle of the Somme that the roads were used too much and must be closed for repairs; in 1918 he refused to send men to work in Albert to ...

Published: Friday 03 December 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 188 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OLD WAR WOUNDS

... completed, Factor in Onset of Leeds Man’s Fatal Disease as Injuries caused when a Leeds blown up by a shell during the Battle of the Somme were mentioned at a Leeds inquest today on Hamlet Dobson (51), of Stonegate Street, A doctor said the cause of death ...

Published: Thursday 17 June 1937
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 598 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

A Problem

... prowess ”? Suppose some great poet of our time wrote this inscription for his own tomb;—“He led a machine-gun team in the Battle of the Somme.” You would not say that he was prouder of his machine-gun skill than of his mastery of metaphor, rhythm, and rhyme ...

Published: Tuesday 21 December 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 275 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Men Who Eagerly Await The Royal Visit Stir at a Leeds

... wife. Hospital the second Battle of Ypres, was wounded, returned to Prance, fought in the battle of Hohenzollem Redoubt, fought at the Battle of the Somme, was'wounded again, returned to France later, and lost a leg at the Battle of Arras. ...

Published: Monday 18 October 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 328 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Miss Eileen Barlow, Queen of Barnsley’s Joy Week, with the Mayor and Mayoress (Alderman and Mrs. Joseph Jones) ..

... Jones) and her attendants after the crowning ceremony in Locke Park. Somme Sunday An Impressive Service in Leeds OMME SUNDAY,” commemorat- ing the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, in which many West Riding men died, was observed yesterday. In Leeds ...

Published: Monday 05 July 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 336 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

iEtmunj

... been the most deeply stirring event of the Coronation season. Here, twenty-one years almost after the opening of the Battle of the Somme, the men who bore that supreme ordeal for us were honoured by the King. With them were others in their thousands who ...

Published: Monday 28 June 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 338 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Traditional Ceremony

... saluted the Grand ColourTangier. 1880, Gibraltar, 1704-6. Oudenarde, Malplaquet, and a host other great battle names down Somme, 1916-18, and Hlndenburg Line—was lowered to the ground, those who watched, whether civilian or Service, homeland ...