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Ten Years Ago: Battle of the SO-mme. To-day is tlw tenth anniversary of the opening of the Battle of the

... Ten Years Ago: Battle of the SO-mme. To-day is tlw tenth anniversary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme, one of the several occasions in the European War when the North Staffordshire Territorials suffered terrible losses, but won great and lasting ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1926
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
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The Somme in sculpture The Great War Battle of the Somme is commemorated in a sculpture exhibition which opened at

... The Somme in sculpture The Great War Battle of the Somme is commemorated in a sculpture exhibition which opened at the Old Gaol, Abingdon, this week. _ . The artist Steve Hunt, who works In a tithe barn at Church Hanborough, specialises in working in ...

Published: Friday 11 March 1977
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 79 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

FRIDAY. JULY 1, 1927. BATTLE OF THE SOMME ANNIVERSARY. Eleven Years Ago. The 46th Division's Losses. Today is ..

... FRIDAY. JULY 1, 1927. BATTLE OF THE SOMME ANNIVERSARY. Eleven Years Ago. The 46th Division's Losses. Today is the eleventh anniversary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme, one of the eeveral occasions in the European War when the North Staffordshire ...

Published: Friday 01 July 1927
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 1917 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Edwin, a bear necessity

... favourite of Lt Percy Kynnersloy-Baddeley, goes up for auction today. The young officer, who was killed during the Battle of the Somme in the 1914-18 war, kept Edwin the bear Inside his tunic as a reminder of home. ...

Published: Tuesday 20 September 1994
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
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DIVORCE FOR MAIMED WAR

... DIVORCE FOR MAIMED WAR HERO. Lost Both Legs and an Artn Battle of Somme. In the DiVOltil Court to-day, Mr. Justioe Rill and a common jury had before them the palllion of Mr. Nathan Bird. of Acacia-road, Dulwich, for the dissolution of his marriage with ...

Published: Wednesday 15 July 1925
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 151 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

serial 4.35 Dungeons and Dragons 4.55 John Craven's Newsround 5.05 Duncan Dares Peter Duncan becomes a stuntman ..

... of the law. Warren Mitchell and Dandy Nichols star 10.00 Wimbledon Tennis Match of the Day 11.00 Battle of the Somme The first day of the Battle of the Somme was the worst in British military history. In less than 24 hours 60,000 British soldiers became ...

Published: Thursday 26 June 1986
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
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noirwoon AND THE soNnal

... and other gentlemen interested at which arrange. mute were completed for the celebration of the anniversary Of the battle of the Somme on the lit July. The ceremony will take place at the War Remodel In Redburn Square and will begin at seven o'clock p ...

on the War has stated that the attack of the 46th Division was so fierce, that the Germans thought they

... n of Civilisation and Liberty in Europe. The War continued for two years after the Battle of the Somme, but the shaking given to the Germans in the Battle of the Somme was one of the elements in the ultimate Allied victory in the War. England and Europe ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1926
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 565 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

as medically unfit

... and served continually from 1914 to 1918 as a front-line soldier. He was decorated three times for his part in the Battle of the Somme. Later he fought the Communists as part of a British Army relief force in the freezing cold of Archangel, and buried ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1973
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 71 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THIS flashback picture takes William Pearce more than 50 years back in time, to when he fought in the trenches

... when he fought in the trenches along the Somme in the First World War. Then. he was a young lad of IN. fighting like an other man in France. Today. he is 72. and still vividly remembers the first battle of the Somme. At the tune the picture was taken. ...

Published: Thursday 04 September 1969
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 90 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MP renews battle to clear soldier's name

... poem MINIMMIIIMM*t THE BATTLE to win a pardon for a Sutton soldier executed during the First World War will be renewed on Friday. Private Bertie McCubbin who served with the Sherwood Foresters was executed as the Battle of the Somme raged in July 1916. He ...

Published: Thursday 30 June 1994
Newspaper: Mansfield & Sutton Recorder
County: Nottinghamshire, England
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