THE SOMME
... THE SOMME. p~evious volumes of the Michelin Guides hav • be~n noticed in these columns. The latest, which deals with the first battle of the Somme (I ...
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Country Life
through the cleared woodland, rabbits appear from everywhere, and shooting is
... it is as well to take q uite a minor part, as well out of range as you can manage. The bombardment may recall the Battle of the Somme and is likelv to be almost as dangerous. But these sh.oots are effective : bags of two to three hundred rabbits are ...
VETERA CHARGERS
... celebrated police horse Quicksilver, who has perhaps the most distinguished record of all. Quicksilver was wounded at the Battle of the Somme, lived through the perilous days of the Ypres salient, and finally entered Germany with the econd Army. Anotl er charger ...
Dec. 17th, 1921. COUNTRY LIFE. THE PORT SUNLIGHT WAR MEMORIAL A GENERAL VIEW OF THE MEMORIAL. S IR W. GOSCOMBE
... who, joining up early in the war, was blinded when fighting with his battalion of the Cheshire Regiment in the first Battle of the Somme. He was guided and assisted by ex-Private Cruikshank, V.C., who represented the Associated Companies of the firm. Erected ...
Feb. lOth, 19W.], 1 an entire lack of appreciation of the charm and interest of a remarkable building on a
... October 13th last Viscount Clive died of the wounds he received while leading his company of Ihe Welsh Guards at the battle of the Somme. Powis Castle is a home of mourning, but the name of its dead heir stands high on the Roll of Honour. H. AvRAY TIPPING ...
rearguard actions. But eYen then, and certainly under existing conditions, aeroplanes can do, and now do, many ..
... 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 ...
June 7th, 1919. J .COUNTRY LIFE. and then our own fresh Guards coming forward eager and new into the fray
... y little effect upon the enemy. These battles were in the autumn of rgrs, and with the winter lull the Guards went to Flanders and finally into the Ypres Salient, where they remained until the battle of the Somme late in rgr6. In a curious way they associated ...
LITERATURE
... the Times to the officers and men of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry who were killed at Fricourt in the ftrst battle of the Somme. praise can be too great for the passage of five words set below ? Gentlemen, when the barrage lifts. Cathedral. The ...
632 COUNTRY LIFE. letter, and the entry in the diary which might have stopped short abruptly as a life stopped
... For we were taught in our history books and the legends and stories of children's books, that in all battles one side was praying on the eve of battle, while the other was drinl'-ing and roystering. Those who prayed and were quiet won. In this war, even ...
HORN AND CORN
... Hon. Patrick Balfour Is 6 Hu TINC THE Fox A D THE l-lAHE - - 157 L IKELY H ORSES FOR THE GRAND rAT lONAL - 158 THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME; OTHER REVIEW - 159 THE D unLEY Rml c AND THAI 1 c Sc HOOL - 160 CORRESPONDENCE - 16 z Old Motor for Farm Use (B. L ...
One is disposed at this time of day--a minor detail, J?Crh~ps
... us. Of the maJOr operations the only battles in which the regiment took no part Second Battle of Ypres, the (offensive) Battle of Arras, The mass of elates and were the Second Battle of Ypres, the (offensive) Battle of Arras, and the capture ...
THE HIGH-PITCHED ROOF CLOTHED IN RUSSET BROWN THATCH
... 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 ...