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Brabham leads for world title

... House, Hillsborough, and attend a review of ex-Servicemen and a service in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. EDITORIAL COMMENT —Page 6 Motor Sport Page 9. Riot in Omaha Talks resume British and Rhodesian officials will resume ...

Published: Monday 04 July 1966
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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Brabham leads for world title

... Houser Hillsborough. and attend a review of ex-Servicemen and a service in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. broke his left forearm. Derek Woodman on a Metisse. broke his L.high and J. Wales. riding a Norton. suffered broken ...

Published: Monday 04 July 1966
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 546 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

FROM THE FRONT LINE

... which provide ordinary newspaper copy in peace-time. There is a brave disparagement and ridicule of frightfulness • The Battle of the Somme is not phase of Armageddon, but a firework display or football match. The civilian reader, as well the service man,' ...

Published: Friday 14 December 1917
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1387 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Ready for Attack

... four or five miles of St. Valery. Most of the soldiers rescued were those who had put to sea in rowing-boats. UNEQUAL BATTLE ON THE SOMME THIN BRITISH LINE ON 24-MILE FRONT When the German advance drove southwest and cut off the main British Expeditionary ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
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*THE SOMME BATTLE

... *THE SOMME BATTLE. century hence may able to say whether the full story of the battle the Somme has been written and how many historians and volumes it has taken tell it. Meanwhile, though the full narrative cannot be attempted yet by any single writer ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1917
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1452 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Croce or Isconclusivk Peace

... prolonged, which God forbid, our armies would be stronger than ever. They would be better supplied than ever. In the great Battle of the Somme in 1916 the British artillery fire was utterly unprecedented and unexampled in the history of war. During the twenty-three ...

Published: Thursday 04 October 1917
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1527 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CLAIM TO BIG BALANCE IN JUNE

... aerial battle. The results of the aerial battles in June are: German losses In aerial battles, 2 aeroplanes By being shot down from the earth, 1 aeroplane. Missing, 4 aeroplanes. Total, 7 aeroplanes. The French and British lost In aerial battles, 23 aeroplanes ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1916
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 600 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NO LIMIT TO THE AMOUNT

... loan last night, said there was a time when battles were called by the names of places, like the Battle of Hastings or the Battle of Waterloo. In the last war they had to be names like the Battle of the Somme. Now, so great was the scale of ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 676 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, one of the loveliest medieval houses in Engl%nd. It was from Haddon Hall that Dorothy ..

... ersergeant. Mr. Pritchard says: I reported Fred dead after seeing him lying badly wounded and unconscious in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He then caused a row by turning up alive in a Yorkshire hospital a few weeks later. We have joked about it ...

Published: Monday 11 November 1957
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 591 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Hazel Lewis wearing her privately-styled spectacles, left, and a pair of NH S glasses, right. Men don't make ..

... steel frames, some of which are round and look like the kind of specs a really butch Hun general might have worn in the Battle of the Somme. Most of the criticism levelled at N HS glasses is based on appearance. A spokesman for the British Optical Association ...

Published: Monday 30 June 1975
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 600 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

BEFORE THE FALL

... the machinery of leadership would have to be changed. Mqually. whilst Mr. McCormick is correct to point out that the battle of the Somme was a victory. Lloyd George (and others) were also correct in saying that it was a disaster. It was, in fact, both. ...

Published: Tuesday 24 September 1963
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 654 | Page: 4 | Tags: none