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Such is Life

... Such is Life Journey's End.-- Last Sunday, near Peronne, the scene of fierce fighting during the Battle of the Somme, a Birmingham woman wearing the war medals of a Red Cross nurse scattered the ashes of her husband over the ground where he had fought ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1931
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 490 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

CASUALTIES TO AEROPLANES: Four Thousand Aviators Engaged on Each Side

... the Germans. This superiority explains their success in the Battle of the Somme. The Germans understand this as well as the Allies. Mr. Philip Gibbs, in his recently-published Battles of the Somme, prints a technical report on these operations made by General ...

Published: Saturday 13 October 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 689 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

The Regiment of St. George

... themselves. Of the Tyneside Scottish and Irish Territorial battalions, when they made their debut in the war at the first battle of the Somme, July 16, their advance through the German curtain of fire was described as simply wonderful. They be haved like veterans ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1921
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 788 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

The LEAVES OF YESTERDAY: A Book Page for Tomorrow

... comes from the Bodley Head. He was seventeen when the war broke, and nineteen when he passed to the Fuller Life in the Battle of the Somme, on 22nd September, 1916. Necessarily, then, we get a chronicle on the thought. the mother's boy what he became, and ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1919
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1329 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

Other

... edition of the official history of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and covers the ground between the second battle of Ypres to the battle of the Somme. Canada in War-Paint. By Captain Ralph W. Bell. (Dent.) 2s. 6d. This volume is a series of vignettes of ...

Published: Saturday 10 March 1917
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 810 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

FASHION'S FANCIES: Tempting Tweeds

... latest volume of the Michelin Guide to the Battlefields of France has just reached me. This volume deals with the First Battle of the Somme, and is one of the most interesting of this admirable series. It is, of course, beautifully got-up and finely illustrated ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1920
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 801 | Page: 64 | Tags: Photographs 

A DARING FLYING MAN A BRAVE SCOTTISH SOLDIER

... commissions together. Lieut. Ralph Brown has been missing since the first battle of the Somme in 1916 while Capt. Lindsay Brown, who was dangerously wounded in the same battle, is still serving, and has been awarded the M.C, A fourth brother, Mr. J. Hamilton ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1918
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 814 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTORING & AVIATION

... recent vindication of the R.F.C. The Times man stated that we have a mastery in the air hardly less complete than in the Battle of the Somme. Nobody will accuse the Times of being anxious to cover up any aerial short comings of the War Office, so that the ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1917
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 816 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

The War as Seen by British Eyes: THE GOLDEN GIRL OF GUNNERY

... O'Connor gives a memorablepicture of the chateau in which the British Conunander-in-Chief was lodged cm the eve of the Battle of the Somme another study in contrasts. The General was at work in his room when they arrived And as we wait here, as one might ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1917
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1514 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

RAIDS UPON GERMAN TOWNS AND BRIDGES: The New Government Air Policy

... wrong to think that we have hitherto had no means at all of carrying aerial warfare into their country. Ever since the Battle of the Somme we have had a clear military supremacy in the air, and in a small way could have followed them up, but we felt that ...

Published: Saturday 13 October 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 885 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs