... Machine Gun Corps, has won the Military Medal after being in France 12 months. This is the reward for services in the Battle of the Somme. He was employed at the Swift Works, and lodged at 14, Clarence Street, Coventry. Oakes is a native of Kidderminster ...

... Horn, 2/7 Royal Warwickshire Regiment, whose parents reside at 17, Bell Green, was wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of the Somme, on July 19th, 1916, and he has just sent home the accompanying picture. He spent his 918 t birthday in Germany last ...

... on Ist August, 1916, He was wounded in the battle of the Somme, and was in hospital in France for a few weeks. On recovering I‘;e again went to the fromt, and on 10th November, he was wounded at the battle of the Ancre. He was sent on to England and ...

... 27th. Pte. Macnamara enlisted in September, 1914, and went to France early in 1915. He was wounded, in June, in the battle of the Somme, by a machine-gun bullet through the left thigh, _ ) and sent back to England. . Upon his recovery, he again went to ...

... D . WOOD & CO . Land Agents : Me3srs. J AMES WOODHAMS & SON , High Street, Battle. THE ELMS. JOHN D. WOOD & CO., 6, MOUNT STREET, LONDON, W. l. STONELINK, High Street, Battle. THE ELMS. XIV. Supplement to COUNTR Y LIFE . ~GHT, FRANK & RUTLEY AND LONDON ...

... which U emerged the victors were those whose inventive genius gave birth to new engines of battle, and, when in the fulness of time we emerge triumphant from our battle against Prussian militarism, not the least part of our success will lie to the credit of ...

... and Boulogne and towns in that area. Such a reputation did these squadrc·ns \~in as air-scrapper;; that when the battle of the Somme began Sir Douglas Haig borrowed a couple of squadrons of them to help his own chaser squadrons, and the R.N.A.S. pilots ...

... impossible fo1· cavalry to get round the enemy's flanks, our Third Dimension Cavalry go over his head. It was in the battle of the Somme that our aeroplanes first took Now it is part of their regular seriously to the cavalry game. Now it is part of their ...

... leave;;. My boy went, he repeated, and again, straightening his bent back. fixed his blue eyes on mine. It was at the battle o' the Somme that he was missed. Months after they found him hangin' on the Jarmans' barbed wire-naught but a few pore fragments ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...