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... Hotel. Mr. Hobson, a member of the Conservative Club, Llandudno, served In France during the 1914-18 war and was in the Battle of the Somme. A service is being held today at 2 Elizabeth Villas, West Shore, the home of Mr. Hobson's daughter. It will be conducted ...

Published: Thursday 13 December 1979
Newspaper: North Wales Weekly News
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 105 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

IN CONFERENCE AT BANGOR

... Mauritius. and the Middle East. During the war he saw action in the Dardanelles and France. and was severely wounded at the battle of the Somme in 1916. Following his discharge from Northampton General Hospital in 1917. he married Miss Helen Gordon Roberts, who ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1974
Newspaper: North Wales Weekly News
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 273 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

Golden anniversary

... where Mr. Parry served in France and Bellived and where Mrs. Parry glum. and fought at the had moved to live from her Battle of the Somme. Keenly interested in choirs. native town of GamlingaY. he is a non-singing member Bedfordshire. of the Maelgwn Male ...

Published: Thursday 04 July 1974
Newspaper: North Wales Weekly News
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 271 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

MR. J. LL HUGHES

... the outbreak of the 1914-18 war he entisted in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. and was commissioned. Wounded in the first Battle of the Somme. he host his left arm. Foblowing his wound, Mr. Rughes spent some time in the censors' department at Calais and was ...

Published: Thursday 21 November 1974
Newspaper: North Wales Weekly News
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 343 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

a golden for happiness

... and two nephews, he said. Mr. Hughes served hi the floral Welch Fusiliers during the first world war, and was In the Battle of the Somme. Mr. Hughes is Hoare In Conwi, -P a i lt and his wife. Ann, on Tuesday received cars. Gifts included bouquets. Mr. and ...

Published: Thursday 21 September 1978
Newspaper: North Wales Weekly News
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 436 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

DID NOT RETURN

... Swinderby, near Lincoln. At the age of 18 he joined the 54th Lincolnshire Regiment, an d when he was 17 he took part in the Battle of the Somme. He was wounded at Lens, and Gardening enthusiast Vivian Spendlove was delighted when his wile. Maria. presented him ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1970
Newspaper: North Wales Weekly News
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 555 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Farmers The boys in the band give a girl a chance to call the tune

... Williams, aged 82. He won the Military Medal for gallantry in 1916, while serving with the Ist Battalion RWF in the Battle of the Somme. • See Page 21 SWALLOW FALLS MAY BE FLOODLIT AFTER scrapping a controversial floodlighting scheme at Pont-y-Pair waterfalls ...

Published: Thursday 04 October 1979
Newspaper: North Wales Weekly News
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 587 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Port Friday 21 ' Adapted from The First Day on the Somme Martin Middlebrook 1971 To be published by Allen

... casualties suffered the British on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme stand comparison not with battles but with complete wars The British Army’s loss on that one easily exceeds battle casualties in the Crimean War the Boer War the Korean combined ...

TO THE SELF EMPLOYED AND SMALL BUSINESSES

... n io n g Y. in the snow .r. over the _aro_ gifts. Be a n d became suspicious and as a Why KW Alfred Burnt the the Battle of the Somme. Mr. wh i ch i s l an d Wigan's Ovation. Kit c h en spoke Roberts' result, called cakes. Underwood's Records. lyrics ...

Published: Thursday 17 April 1975
Newspaper: North Wales Weekly News
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 777 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Man short of money stole from flat meters PLEADING guilty at Abergele Court on Friday to charges of stealing £52.40

... the publicity coin- the publicity committee to home and overseas markets, form a sub-committee to ex- he said. Calling Somme battle comrades . . A FASCINATING privately rare and valuable of the published 175-page book first world war. has conabout the ...

Published: Thursday 03 May 1973
Newspaper: North Wales Weekly News
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 1008 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

THE SOMME ON THE OTHER side No Man’s Land the attack had come as surprise to the Germans One of

... German observers at the front had noticed the increased activity the Somme as the British there prepared for the battle When Rawlinson’s bombardment opened on June 24 the Germans the Somme could even more certain that they about to be attacked The intense ...