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‘lt looks like the Battle of the Somme in some places’

... ‘lt looks like the Battle of the Somme in some places’ ABOVE: The desolation near The Range after the blaze INSET: Firefighters in action ife as a firefighter in Whitby's Blue Watch has been eventful to say the __dleast over the past few days. They were ...

Published: Tuesday 23 September 2003
Newspaper: Whitby Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1178 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

TODAY marks the oot anniversary ol the opening of the Battle of the Somme in the 1914-18 war. It was

... TODAY marks the oot anniversary ol the opening of the Battle of the Somme in the 1914-18 war. It was a day described as “fateful and fatal” in the history of the 1/4th Battn. the Duke of Wellington's Regt., the Halifax Territorial unit. “No one who was ...

Published: Friday 01 July 1966
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 2576 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

BRITISH THRUST. WITH THE VICTORS. How the Hun was Beaten. Second Battle of the Somme. Press Association War Special

... BRITISH THRUST. WITH THE VICTORS. How the Hun was Beaten. Second Battle of the Somme. Press Association War Special From the Press Association’s special war correspondent, Headquarters, British Army. ¥ | £ France, Friday, Last night passed cemparatively ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1918
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 761 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

... ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1916 The first battle of the Somme ended. 1928 The first Mickey Mouse cartoon, Steamboat Willie, was shown. 1987 The worst fire in the history of the London Underground killed 31 people at King’s Cross. ...

Published: Monday 18 November 2002
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 40 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Wetherby Film Theatre

... Wetherby Film Theatre Set in the closing hours before the Battle of the Somme, The Trench (15) is showing at 7.30 pm daily with an exclusive screening of the new air traffic control thriller Pushing Tin (15) at 7.30 pm on Sunday. IF YOU HAVE DIFFICULTY ...

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... O\ Rl6al= 2N Reg Glonr[, left, as he is today, and, right, as a young man in 1916. He and other survivors of the Battle of the Somme talk about what it was like to go over the top in the documentary ‘‘Lions Led By Donkeys,’’ which is repeated on Channel ...

Published: Wednesday 25 June 1986
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 60 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Somme tribute

... Somme tribute SOLDIERS who fell at the Battle of the Somme were remembered in Boroughbridge when a wreath and crosses were laid on the town's war memorial by the mayor, Coun Mrs Freda Cooper, and members of the Royal British Legion. The ceremony was held ...

Published: Friday 05 July 1996
Newspaper: Ripon Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 65 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The Thrust on Bapaume

... stirred the experts far more than 14> general public. The interest of Bapaume is that it was the main object of the Battle of the Somme in 1916. We now seem, as a result of four days’ comparatively easy fizhting, to be within reach of the same results ...

Published: Monday 26 August 1918
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 73 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Somme Remembered THE Royal British Legion’s Boroughbridge branch will hold a brief act of remembrance at ..

... The Somme Remembered THE Royal British Legion’s Boroughbridge branch will hold a brief act of remembrance at the Garden of Remembrance on Horsefair, at 7.20 am on Thursday, July 1, to honour the soldiers who died on the first day of the battle of the ...

Published: Friday 25 June 1999
Newspaper: Ripon Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 80 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Waiting for the Reply

... British Army, as they were involved up tv ‘the neck in their attempt at Verdun to destroy the French army in 1916. The battle of the Somme was the British relief of Verdun. We await the parallel. ...

Published: Thursday 18 April 1918
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TODAY—JUST 50 YEARS AFTER ..

... Then ‘thousands upon thousands of khakiclad men rose from their trenches. The deafening drumfire opened up again. The Battle of the Somme had begun. It was July Ist, 1916. By nightfall, some 60,000 men lay dead and wounded — a casualty toll never equalled ...

Published: Friday 08 July 1966
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 78 | Page: 3 | Tags: none