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Battle of the Somme

... Battle of the Somme It was revived in 1920 as the state of Northern Ireland was about to be established, and reborn in its present terrorist mode in 1966 under the leadership of Gusty Spence the man who read yesterday’s announcement that they were calling ...

Published: Friday 14 October 1994
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 282 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... BATTLE OF THE SOMME. GERMAN POINT OF VIEW. ALLIES' TERRIBLE GUNFIRE. TRENCH CARRIER PIGEONS (Special War Service.) New York, Sunday. The following cablegram from the Associated Press correspondent with the German Armies on the is published here: German ...

Published: Tuesday 12 September 1916
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 726 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... BATTLE OF THE SOMME. ABERDEEN CROWDING TO SEE FILMS. It is commonplace of the present day to assert that war is no longer spectacular. The statement is half tho truth, all who witness episodes such as are screened in the Picture House and Palace Theatre ...

Published: Tuesday 05 September 1916
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 709 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. IMPORTANT PHASE. SUSTAINED BLAZE OF CONFLICT. MR ASQUITH AT THE FROST (From a Special Correspondent.) British Headquarters in the field, France, Saturday. If intensity of gunfire counts for anything, a fierce battle is proceeding ...

Published: Monday 11 September 1916
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 773 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

VIOLENT BATTLE ON THE SOMME

... VIOLENT BATTLE ON THE SOMME. BRILLIANT SUCCESSES BY FRENCH. Paris, Monday. To-nights official communique says: North of the tho battle was renewed to-day with violence the Anglo-French front. French infantry simultaneously attacked the German positions ...

Published: Tuesday 26 September 1916
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Air Battle Over The Somme

... Air Battle Over The Somme A hundred British and German fighters —Spitfires against ME's and FW 190's —yesterday clashed in a terrific dog fight over the Somme, scene of one of the great land battles of the last war. Beneath the fighters was a formation ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1942
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BATTLE OF SOMME DISPATCH

... BATTLE OF SOMME DISPATCH. ALL OBJECTS ATTAINED. GRAND WORK NEW ARMIES. The dispatch General Sir Douglat. Haig, Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in France, the great Battle of the Somme was issued night. It describes the battle at> ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1916
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 607 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PART TWO of lain Carmichael’s powerful series on the Battle of the Somme continues with the hour-by-hour story ..

... PART TWO of lain Carmichael’s powerful series on the Battle of the Somme continues with the hour-by-hour story of the fortunes of war on that bloody first day seemed at first that nothing could halve the fury of their attack. Then the left hand companies ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1976
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 437 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Battle of the Somme SIR; As I write, it is exactly 80 years since my father was killed in Mametz

... Battle of the Somme SIR; As I write, it is exactly 80 years since my father was killed in Mametz Wood at the Battle of the Somme. In my long life, I remember nothing more clearly as I described' in my book From Arctic Snow to Dust of Normandy than the ...

Published: Monday 15 July 1996
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 373 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

EARLIER this month, we ran feature harking back to the fearsome World War 1 Battle of the Somme. It stirred

... EARLIER this month, we ran feature harking back to the fearsome World War 1 Battle of the Somme. It stirred memories for 77- year-old Mrs Jessie Dnncan (left). Forest Road, Aberdeen, who has this eerie tale to tell from her childhood. ...

Published: Friday 15 July 1983
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 41 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SATURDAY ANSWERS From Page One 1 Paul McCartney; 2 Battle of the Somme; 3 Power Gen; 4 The Warsaw Pact;

... SATURDAY ANSWERS From Page One 1 Paul McCartney; 2 Battle of the Somme; 3 Power Gen; 4 The Warsaw Pact; 5 Dundee; Inverurie; 7 30; 8 Rob Roy; Soviet Union: 10 The Bible; 11 Prince Harry; 12 Political asylum; 13 The pint; 14 Murrayfleld; Dolly Parton; ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1991
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 61 | Page: 14 | Tags: none