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SERVICE IN TWO NI ARS

... the Ist Battalion in France, as well as commanding the 152nd Brigade. He was Commander of troops in France and Flanders during the evacuation. Since the War he had held a number of staff appointments, being promoted to Major-General in 1932, and later ...

Published: Thursday 07 November 1935
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

IN FLANDERS

... IN FLANDERS Despite the bad weather in Flanders progress continues bo made. Brltisn attack on the Passchendaete ridges has greatly alarmed the enemy, who has made two desperate counter-attacks, both of wore repulsed by the Canadians- Freah ground has ...

Published: Monday 29 October 1917
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1396 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SIGNS OF EVACUATION

... SIGNS EVACUATION GERMANS REMOVE MATERIAL FROM BELGIUM (“Times” War T o lour am, per n.A.) The ITagrie, Friday. My correspondent in Limburg telegraphs:— Trains at intervals are running over the lines near the southern frontier conveying masses of material ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1918
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ON FLANDERS BATTLE FRONT

... ridge, but the Turks had evacuated it, and replied with counter bombardment a few minutes afterwards, expecting us to follow up the barrage with assault. We, however, as soon as it became clear that the Turks were evacuating Mushaid Ridge, changed our ...

Published: Monday 08 October 1917
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1847 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

II UN RETREAT IN FLANDERS

... wholly in onr posseesion, but we are still wes>t Plouvain aind Oppy. , The enemy still continues to retreat in Flanders, and has evacuated Bailleul and Noote Boom, three miles south of Bailleul. The Germans, however, still hold Monte-des-Lille, which ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1918
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 308 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BOURLON WOOD EVACUATED

... BOURLON WOOD EVACUATED. ?i«S* fC d ...

Published: Friday 07 December 1917
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1116 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Reported evacuation of lille and ostend by the Germans

... Reported evacuation of lille and ostend by the Germans. DRIVING BACK THE GERMANS. ENEMY RETREAT FROM THE YSER. BRITISH PROGRESS. SPLENDID WORK OUR TROOPS. (Press Association War Spscial.) Paris, Friday. The following official communique was issued at ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1914
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 872 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THERING SIGNS OF GERMAN DEFEAT IN THE BATTLE OF FLANDERS. tEIMU (TUCKS WEAKEKR ogress Round of ALLIES YPRES. ..

... THERING SIGNS OF GERMAN DEFEAT IN THE BATTLE OF FLANDERS. tEIMU (TUCKS WEAKEKR ogress Round of ALLIES YPRES. Houmous slaughter. bISH ACCOUNT FOR 50,000 GERMANS. attacks around Ypres are weakening, and the orces taking the offensive, are stated officially ...

Published: Friday 06 November 1914
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 804 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

“LIKE I LANDERS.”

... prepared to leave their homes and farmers evacuated their cattle. By order of the Catchment Board, all people living the hamlets of Welches Dam and Purls Bridge, on the old Bedford river, have been evacuated to the village of Manea, which is on higher ...

Published: Wednesday 17 March 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ADMISSIONS OF RETREAT

... COMMAND IN CANDID MOOD. (Admiralty, per Wireless Press.) Berlin, Friday Afternoon During the last few days • we have evacuated parts of Flanders and Northern France, including the towns of Ostend, Tourooing, Boubaix, Lille, and Douai, and have taken up our ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1918
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 242 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

EFFECT ON F-BOAT WAR

... EFFECT F-BOAT WAR. The Press Association learns reliably that signs of the inten ion of th Germans to abandon the Flanders coast are multiplying, and the retirement appears to imminent. The decision will not occasion very much surprise. The and Ostend ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1918
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 265 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Tho importance of “ Side-show*.*’

... action is a matter common knowledge. He understood the value.of the so-called sideshow's ’’; he was alive to the fact that to evacuate Salonika would to hand over the whole of tho Balkan Peninsula and Asia Minor to Germany—to make her a present of her war ...

Published: Saturday 14 December 1918
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 7 | Tags: none