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Published: Friday 04 August 1972
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 395 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

BOATEL

... —From Wife and Children In loving memory of our dear and brother, Peter, fourth son of the above, who was killed in the Battle of the Somme. Sept. 26th, 1916, in his 22nd year. He gave his life that we might live. 'a —From Mother, Brothers and Sitters. TEMPLEMAN ...

Published: Friday 27 September 1918
Newspaper: Mansfield Reporter
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 336 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BBC-1

... t'Keep young and beautiful xquence. Fascinatinge 3.53 THE GREAT WAR. Part 13 The Devil is Coming. The Hre• month long battle of the Somme and Its terrible conselueoees.• THE BASIL BEVSH SHOW. Roy North assists the woodland world's answer to Sooty. Boom Boom' ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1974
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 417 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Nirths, jitarriants, Al /froths

... husband. Strawoon Lievesley Wilson, Lieutenant, 15th Sherwood Foresters, died 21st July, 1916. of wounds received iu the Battle of the Somme. —lnterred in Ls Neuville Cemetery. 4th BATTALION NOTTINGHAMSHIRE VOLUNTEER REGIMENT. (Affiliated to the sth (Reserve) ...

Published: Friday 20 July 1917
Newspaper: Mansfield Reporter
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 363 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TODAY

... time ago, I joined the Artillery at Woolwich, went to the Dardanelles then on to France where I was blown up in the Battle of the Somme July 1916, receiving eighteen wounds. When I was discharged with said wounds, my discharge papers stated I jomed up ...

Published: Monday 30 October 1978
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 470 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

SEE TELEPHONE MEMORY POE LOCAL AGENTS

... Ludendorff was forced to retreat The Ber man war machine was about In . break dawn atter four years of strain. In the third battle of the Somme the British Army and the rrench rushed forwsrd atter a four-minute , bombardment. supported by! SO(' light tank,. They ...

Published: Tuesday 07 April 1964
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 443 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE SKY

... THE SKY. COMING - THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. PRICES : 3d., 4d., 7d., 10d. (Including War Tax) VICTORIA ORCHESTRA Mirka Director: MR. T. W. RENSHAW , TELEPHONE 334. SEATS MAY BE BOOKED IN ADVANCE. 'Elution *alias. MANBYI7LD PA It I,IA 11 ENTA RY BY-ELBCTION ...

Published: Friday 08 September 1916
Newspaper: Mansfield Reporter
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 468 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LEEDS SERVICE

... LEEDS SERVICE. Memory of Comrades of the Somme. To commemorate the men of Leeds and district who made the supreme 1 sacrifice during the battle of the Somme in July, 1916, the Leeds Branch of the British Legion held a Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph ...

Enjoy a low level cuppa

... That is, that small • • piece of land where so many died sixty • • years ago at the Battle of the Somme. • • I would like all old soldiers who were in that • • battle to write to me, giving details of experi - • • ences, drawings of the landscape, trench ...

Published: Thursday 21 April 1977
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 662 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

Brussels

... Everybody had expected a major battle, with heavy casualties. Indeed, one Army officer said within the wading of Bomber Com. mud chief Sir Arthur Harris that he ed a con/lict tom le to that first battle of the 'Somme. when there were 70,000 casualties ...

Published: Friday 07 April 1978
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 515 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

XXXVI. OUR WOMEN MAYORS. Councillor Mrs. J. H. Davies, J.P., Mayor of Welshpool

... member of the Welsh:pool Borough Bench. Of their three sons who fought in the Great War, the youngest was killed in the battle of the Somme while commanding his Company in the Ist R.W. Fusiliers, and a second was awarded the Military Cross. As Mayor, Mrs. ...

Published: Friday 06 September 1929
Newspaper: Vote
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 539 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WARWICKSHI MAN'S DIARY

... triumph over adversity. For, after losing both legs while serving with the 2nd Battalion, the Rifle Brigade, in the battle of the Somme in 1916, Mr. Eaves came back and started work at the Morris Motors Engines factory in Coventry. invitation of the Birmingham ...

Published: Monday 21 April 1958
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 613 | Page: 8 | Tags: none