... and four children is Ma a week, and will be payable from Nov. 13th. • ILA.F.—Tanks were first used in action at the Battle of the Somme In Sep(tember. 1916. Wishful.-1t would be useless for a man to apply to purchase his discharge at the present time. ...

... DELAY MEANS DEATH. The battle of the Somme caused 30.000 casualties on the first day. Of these approximately 3,000 would require transfusion, which would call for the forward provision of 7,500 pints of blood. Clearly, it would be impossible to obtain ...

... that at Bunkers Hill in the American War of Independence, Inkermann in the Crimea. And, in the last war, we had the battle of the Somme, where frontal attacks achieved so little and caused such an enormous loss of life. We should have learned earlier that ...

... regiment embarked for France and landed at Marseilles, proceeding thence to the Somme, and on the Ist July, Coun. Burton was wounded in action at the first battle of the Somme. He was invalided home to recuperate and returned to France in November, 1916 ...

... Buccleuch Street. Barrow-in-Punaess, told how. when present at a seance, his deceased uncle. who was killed In the Battle of the Somme In the former war, spoke to his mother of the grief and anguish caused by war. He lapplicant) then ti. , wed not to ...

... Grange, but when war broke out he was one of the Old Gontemptibles; and went out to France. On :August 28th in the first battle of the Somme. he was wounded and captured by the Germans. and was held as a prisoner of war in Germany until 1919. Before the Great ...

... he served as a combatant with the Royal Fusiliers and the 'Marine Gun Corps. He was ,severely wounded in the first battle of the Somme in July 1916, as a result of which his arm was amputated in *llan Wield floapital He received his training at St. Aidan's ...

... those sent to Egypt at the end of 1915, but immediately back to France. It saw fighting in the battle of the Somme, the pursuit to the Hindenbnrg Line, the Battles of Arras, slid both the March and April, 1918. offensives. Weak Back and Headaches ...

... Bullough, Ltd., Accrington. Daring the 18 months he served in France he participated in much heavy fighting, including the battle o! the Somme, and was badlv wounded about the lege at Arras, on April last. Ha had undergone numerous operations Whalley, but, unhappily ...

... Bolton-by-Bowland Parish Church, on the 21st. Prior to the screening at King Lane Picture Hall of scenes from The Battle of the Somme. the financial proceeds being for the benefit of Barraclough Military Hospital, Dr. Orme tendered the thanks of the ...

... February, 1919. when he was demobilised with the rank of acting sergeant-major in the 46th Trench Mortar Battery. In the Battle of the Somme in 1916, Waddington won the D.C.M., and in August. 1918, in action at Soissons, he gained the Military Modal. After ...

... Fiower, : 1. Mary 2, Mary Whittaker. ceived one in the Bedfordshire Regiment. He again saw service took part .n the 1916 battle of the Somme and in Beaumont Ham«l. and then had to resign his commission for health reasons. Meanwhile his partner only stayed at ...