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BATTLE RESUMED ON SOMME

... BATTLE RESUMED ON SOMME front Bittle on Low er Somme region of »Ed this morning with and had been d on the two wings, said in. Germans have heavy artillery bom it in Champagne which be in preparation for an ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 40 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

IN BATTLE OF SOMME

... IN BATTLE OF SOMME. He served in the Yeomanry for 2i years and then gained a commission in the 31st Home Counties (T.) Brigade, R.F'.A. He took part in the battle of the Somme and the heavy fighting at Passe he nd ale and was sei. o ly wounded about the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1941
Newspaper: Worthing Gazette
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 306 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Battle of Somme Service

... Battle of Somme Service the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, the Mayor of Barnsley (Alderman T. W. Richardson), accompanied by members and officers of the Corporation, yesterday attended the annual memorial service Locke Park for the fallen the ...

On the last day of 1916, Sir Douglas Haig's dispatch giving an account of the battle Of the Somme, was

... On the last day of 1916, Sir Douglas Haig's dispatch giving an account of the battle Of the Somme, was published. In the course of this the Commander-in- Chief of the British Forces France wrote: “The enemy’s power has not yet been broken, nor it yet ...

Published: Tuesday 30 December 1941
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 223 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OPEN TUESDAY 10 TO 3 P M

... OPEN TUESDAY 10 TO 3 P M. Registered Custotners Oily. Major George Onions, 62. who won the V.C.during the second battle of the Somme. has died in a SMUldnitham hospital k_ ...

Anniv-ersories

... also the of the ning of the end of the Great War. The headlong re- treat of the German hosts de- feated at the second battle of the Somme began on Ist tember, 1918, and it became a rout. undreds of guns were captured and the ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1940
Newspaper: East London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 59 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Killed in Malaya

... Killed in Malaya Mrs. Clara Frankland, of 24, Brennand-street, Burnley, whose husband, Mr. Robt. Latham, was killed the Battle of the Somme while serving with the Leicester Regiment 25 years ago, has been officially informed that her son, Lance-Corporal F ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1942
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 51 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Air Vice-Marshal Bromet, who is 52, and a native of •S. in the last war, having

... Tadcaster, entered the R.N A. learned to fly at Brooklands. He won the D.SO. for leading his fighter squadron into the Battle of the Somme. The first U-boat sunk by an Azores-based aircraft was destroyed by Fortress within two weeks of our forces beginning ...

WORLD OF

... WORLD OF the Battle of the Somme, the chalk ridge rising from the valley burst into unbroken line of smoke and fire, and it was up that ridge and into the furnace beyond that many a Northern battalion plunged to Its lasting fame and grievous loss. To ...