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This is a newspaper called The Accrington Observer and Times and was printed during the Great War (World War One) in July 1916

For weeks many of the war journals and newspapers printed the names of the men killed and wounded during the battle of the Somme on July 1st 1916. These are examples of two of the lists.


 

Roll the mouse over the pictures to highlight articles about some of the men, then click on the highlighted images to read the reports.