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Bedminster Hippodrome the great attraction during the week will The Battle of *he Ancre and tbe Advance --.f the

... Hippodrome the great attraction during the week will The Battle of *he Ancre and tbe Advance --.f the Ttnks. The ntered shown the first series of pictures i'lken during the Battle of the Somme seems only have served to whet the public appetite for still ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1917
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BUILT HIS OWN MAUSOLEUM

... of Cinematography to the intelligence department of the British War Office and producer the actual war film of the Battle of the Somme- His mausoleum was started about ten years ago and was to his own design. It is nearly 40 feet high and nearly every ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1939
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

200 RAIDS CHEAPER THAN DAY'S BATTLE

... one day on the Somme were suffered. We could afford to have nearly 200 air battles on the scale of a major raid on Berlin before we lose as many valuable lives as we did in one day on the Somme. The results obtained from 200 such battles would be ctf ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1943
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 149 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TRAGIC WAR RECORD. ONLY ONE LEII OF FAMILY OF TEN

... Franee. His father end four brothers were all ki;led on the .ante flay—July Lith. 1916—in the first athance at the battle of the Somme. The etilest POO was only twenty two. The youth's three sisters were all killed in air raids. while his mother was the ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 1919
Newspaper: South Gloucestershire Gazette
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WIDOW OF FORMER SOMERSET RECTOR

... curate Thornbury, and now vicar Lower Cam, cne son, Mr Guy Crossman, officer in the Welch Regiment, being killed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The funeral service was conducted bv the Rev. Basil Hughes, rector of High Ha,m, assisted by Preb. Ross and ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1934
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Views on Time her Stay? PREMIER IS VISITING B.E.F

... conferences at French towns away from the battle area. On the eve of the battle of Polyglon Wood, in September 1918, Mr. Lloyd George, with Sir William Robertson, arrived at headquarters and went up to the battle area. It is recorded that a shell fell near ...

Published: Friday 15 December 1939
Newspaper: Bristol Evening Post
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 158 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

M.P.'S DEATH. ANNIVERSARY OF SON'S SOMME FATE. A. Willey, Unionist M.P. for Central i-eeos, died early ..

... apparently in his normal state of health on Saturday, but on Sunday, which was the anniversary of his son's death in the battle of the Somme in 1016, had a seizure, and was criticaily ill throughout the day. ji e( j yesterday without having fully regained ...

Published: Tuesday 03 July 1923
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NEW FRENCH OFFENSIVE

... caught under the French barrage fire, and were unable to do anything at all. would seem that the battle of the Somme is about become the battle of the Somme and the Aisne. SUPER-ZEPPELIN'S TRIALS. TIMES' TELEGRAM, PER PRESS (COPYRIGHT.) LAUSANNE, Tuesday ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1916
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 541 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE BRITISH ARMY

... Fourth German Corps, thinks of the British Army is revealed in the course of a voluminous document dealing with the battle of the Somme, and its lessons, which was captured by our troops. It begins by paying a tribute to our infantry. The English infantry ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1916
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1266 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OLD COMRADES' ASSOCIATION

... lieutenancy. Appointed machine gun officer, he was in Belgium and France with the 6th Gloucesters, being wounded the first battle of the Somme. In 1917 he was sent to Egypt, where he took charge of the Dock Defence Troops in Alexandria. Subsequently he went through ...

Published: Tuesday 13 May 1924
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 215 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MAINLY PERSONAL

... 's regiment, when over half the officers and men of the 1/4 Battalion were wiped out in their tragic attack in the Battle of the Somme, the Princess Royal, on Saturday, unveiled a memorial at Halifax Drill Hall to the dead of the first and second fourth ...

Published: Monday 06 September 1937
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OUR SOMME OFFENSIVE

... OUR SOMME OFFENSIVE SLOW BUT SURE METHODS. (PRESS ASSOCIATION WAR SPECIAL.) PARIS, Wednesday. Reviewing yesterday's fighting, an expert French commentator wrote last night:— The Somme offensive continues vith a regularity of success which must disconcerting ...

Published: Thursday 07 September 1916
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 414 | Page: 5 | Tags: none