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BATTLE OF THE SOMME

... BATTLE OF THE SOMME WILL BE SHOWN AT THE PLAYHOUSE, Worcester Street, Bromsgrove, On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Nov. 13TR, 14TH, AND 15TH. There will be no advance in prices, but there will be THREE HOUSES NIGHTLY, To commence (at 6.0 p.m., 7.10 ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1916
Newspaper: Bromsgrove & Droitwich Messenger
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SUNDAY'S BATTLE ON THE SOMME

... SUNDAY'S BATTLE ON THE ALLIES' CO-OPERATION. The Franco-British attack on the line be. tween Delville Wood and the Somme, made on Sunday, says Mr. Warner Allen, was preceded by the usual heavy artillery preparation. At four o'clock in the morning nearry ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1916
Newspaper: Bromsgrove & Droitwich Messenger
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 421 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Tom will not forget Battle of the Somme

... Tom will not forget Battle of the Somme WARWICK war veteran Tom Shephard will never forget July 1, 1916. At 6 am he was one ol a thousand soldiers who climbed out of the trenches and into the front line of fighting. Ten hours later there were barely a ...

Published: Friday 04 July 1986
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 550 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SOMME VETERANS

... SOMME VETERANS When the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visit Northern Ireland on July 4 they will review 1,500 veterans of the battle of the Somme. The men—mainly from the former 36th Ulster Dlvision—; parade on the Balmoral showgrounds, Belfast. \ ...

Published: Wednesday 25 May 1966
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 42 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

XY

... LED BY DONKEYS: The Battle of the Somme. What did it feel like to go over the top on Ist July 1916 and to survive the greatest disaster in the history of the British Army? Some of the remaining survivors of the Battle of the Somme, now in their nineties ...

Published: Friday 08 November 1985
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 196 | Page: 64 | Tags: none

Leave memorial gates where they are

... Leave memorial gates where they are AS the 70th anniversary of the battle of the Somme is here, I would urge all ex-service men and women, together with all residents of Rugby, to write once more to their local councillors and to the MP, to ask them to ...

Published: Thursday 03 July 1986
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 246 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Swinford

... presented with a commemora uve medalhon for the 70th anniversary of the battle of the Somme. Mr Gordon Drake made the presentation. Mr Emmerson is one of the few survivors of this battle. Mrs J. Drewitt ...

Published: Thursday 26 February 1987
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 61 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

& Now he's been dead 50 years By Tony Raba A Wolverham‘aton man Is going to his local today, to

... 1916, at the battle of the Somme that Mr. George Stone, now living at 11 Greenwood-road, Oxley, was “killed” in action while his regiment, the Ist Battalion of the Rifle Brigade. were trying to take the village of Beaumont Hammel, on the Somme, said the ...

Published: Friday 01 July 1966
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 286 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, DECEMBER 4th. MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND WEDNESDAY ONLY. —T. McDermott has secured, at great ..

... AT THE PLAYHOUSE. WOUNDED SOMME HEROES AND HOW THEY ARE CARED FOR. You saw the Battle of the Somme. You saw our heroes wounded. Now come and see wounded Somme heroes and how they are cared for. Sequel to the Battle of the ...

Published: Saturday 02 December 1916
Newspaper: Bromsgrove & Droitwich Messenger
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 261 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Still blood on ground

... impersonal service round the Cenotaph. I we stopped and thought for a while, maybe it would not become a farce. The Battle of the Somme means that many gave their lives for a dream of peace and a better world to live in. Yet there is Vietnam, and Biafra—still ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1968
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ALLEN

... 1915, aged 26 years : buried near Loos. Also Private Alfred Allen, 6th Royal Warwicks, killed July Ist, 1916, in the battle of the Somme, aged 09 years. Death divides, but Memory clings. R.I.P. Never Forgotten by their Brother, Sapper 'l'. Allen. R.E., ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1917
Newspaper: Bromsgrove & Droitwich Messenger
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 70 | Page: 6 | Tags: none