... in 1818 Warren Hastings died Baily astronomer died 1848 First meeting Huddersfield Improvement Commissioners- 1918 Battle of the Somme PUCK and Mr Lloyd George by with the sunlight making halo of abundant hair with which blessed both those statesmen They ...

... bloodpoisoning developed. ’!nd'ot Snodgrass, who was forty-three, leaves a widow and two young children. He served at the Battle of the Somme, was wounded, and was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry. He served, throughout ‘the course of the war, in France ...

... eight. He served with the 6th Division Treneh Mortar Battery during the War, and was severely wounded and gassed at the Battle of the Somme. In 1929 he unguccessfully fought the Rother Valley Division of Yorkshire, and at the last general election wiped out ...

... started In 1915, when he received a commission in the Bth Battalion. He was wounded in the open-11’6%' stages of the battle of the Somme, in July, thefif but Jater rejoined the battalion, and in Agaioulowmg year he was wounded and gassed. Witlinth]e »vas ...

... another three fields away. o The Battle of the Somme MEMORIES may be short, but I faney that some will be stirreq to-morrow by the date, July 1. For the first day of July brings again the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme eighteen years ago, when the ...

... never dissociate the poppy's scarlet from grim days similar to those their sons are facing the tortured France When the Battle of the Somme began in early July the flaming of popples was seen along many a communication trench and across shell-pitted flatland ...

... for parents of the young soldiers who are serving abroad: I Don't worry about your son Jungle warfare not like the battle of the Somme It’s mainly hard work slogging and sweat! Casualties are low in proportion to the amount of work put in Nor there constant ...

... doubt The Battle Of The Somme DID many veteran of the Great War feel his years as listened last night to the BBC’s moving feature on the Battle of the Somme? It was forty years on and very few those who survived the greatest and longest ...

... under charge were in laying field telephone wires almost continually for a fortnight under heavy shellfire during the Battle of the Somme FOR TWENTY-THREE twenty-three years until he retired at the age of sixty-five an electrical maintenance worker at Delghton ...

... movements of the five full-time sterilisers It looks like plan of troop movements during the more hectic stages of the battle of the Somme GEORGE MACRAE By rearranging old equipment and designing some new machines he managed to cut the total number of operations ...

... line The to France in April 1915 part of Infantry Division took part in heavy battles Fleur Baix Somme 1916 Ypres and Armentieres The 2'Tth went to France In took part in the Somme Cambrai 1917 and 1918 in the Champagne district in 1918 Strength Built Up ...

... Slaughter on the Somme 'THE Battle of the Somme began in the full gloiy of summer’s day July I 1916 It was to continue succession of limited engagements until the mud of winter brought operations to standstill but the crucial day in the battle remained July ...