TATTERSHALL,

... a beautitul marble clock, in recognition of hig splendid service 1o hie country. M. Roase lost his left arm in the battle of the Somme on July Ist, 191¢, ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1917
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AWARDED THE STAR OF MONS

... big engagements, the most important of whick were :—Mons, Le Chateau, Marne, first and second battles of Ypres, Aisne, first and second battles of the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Messines, and Arras. It is to be hoped that a continuance of Sergt. Peterson’s good ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1918
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SERGT. CHARLES H. LESLIE, MM

... completing his training, was drafted to France, where he has taken part in much hard fighting, being wounded in the battle of the Somme. After a period in hospital in England, he paid a bricf visit to his friends in Mid-Yell, before againf returning to ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1918
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 244 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Dr. Gordon Joins R.A.M.C,

... Lincolnshire Regiment. He joined the Army B (toyal Fusiliers Bankers Batt.) in Novem ' her, 1915, and was wounded at the battle on the Somme on September 15th, 1916. Awarded Belgian Medal. We offer our hearty congratulations to Sergt.-Major C. Collison, R.F ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1918
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 145 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE BANFFSHIRE HERALD SOUK BOOK MOTU. One of the important literary events of the year is the publication, by ..

... Campaign in France and Flanders, 1916. It contains the first detailed account of the gigantic Battle of the Somme. The author calculates that in this battle, taking conservative figures, the total combatants of the three armies were not less than three ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1918
Newspaper: Banffshire Herald
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 595 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

OUT TO SMOTHER US BY SHEER WEIGHT

... OUT TO SMOTHER US BY SHEER WEIGHT. The second battle of the Somme is being fought by armies in the open. Along the flaming front from the wilderness above Bapaume, ucross the dead country convulsed by nearly three years of trench warfare, into the hills ...

Published: Tuesday 26 March 1918
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE BANFF S:

... their youngest son, LiCpl. Wm. Ilcßobuie, Cordons. ho was 22 years of age, and fell in action on tae opening day of the battle of the Somme. he enlisted shortly atter the outbreak of war, and was wounded three times. He was home on furlough quite recandy. ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1918
Newspaper: Banffshire Herald
County: Moray, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 976 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The Bucdget

... endurance is provided by the case of 2 member of the Royal Sussex Regiment who is now in hospital. During one of the great battles on the Somme a high explosive shell shattered one of his legs Nothing daunted, he obtained a couple of rifles, and, using them ag ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1918
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DECORATION FOR SHETLAND SOLDIER

... France for 21 months, taking part in many imxorunt battles He was quickly promoted, and has now been raised to the rank of Coy.-Sergt.-Major. He was wounded in the back by shrapnel in the battle of the Somme last year. His promotion and decciation will be ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1918
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 4 | 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

Private A, L. Dyer

... in the trenches, having enlisted in September, 1914, and had seen service m Gallipoli, Egypt, and Trance. During the battle of the Somme last July he was invalided home, suffering from gas poisoning and trench fever, and was sent to St. Luke’'s Hospital ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1918
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 458 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

M AT TYY ,T. T Q n GLORY, THAT WILL NEVER FADE «Mr. J. J. Fisher has contrived to find

... family archives.”—* YorksHiks OBSERVER.” How the Duke’s saved a Divison in FRANCE: oYouKnow = cuw s fought at the Battles of the SOMME and CAMBRAL These and other hattles are descrited by men who were there. C€ne2 of the most Thrilling Stories ever told ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1918
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 179 | Page: 3 | Tags: none