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... efforts was in the way it used cannon-firing aircraft to combat the German tanks in the early stages of the Battle of the Somme. As I write, that battle still sways, and no one can tell the outcome but it has again shown the amazing powers of improvisation ...
... its mechanism is an open secret. It is known to the Germans, who, indeed, used some examples of it as early as in the Battle of the Somme. Its chief disadvantage is that it rapidly becomes heated, and if firing at high speed is to be maintained, a spare ...
... destroyed, guns disabled or blown up. And yet it is a fact that many parts of the Ger man trench tangles during the Battle of the Somme were found to be uninjured, gene rally because they had not been marked down. Consequently, as the Allied infantry ad ...
... Corps in the spring of 1916. Up the High Street of Flers On September 15, 1916, tanks had their baptism of fire in the battle of the Somme, and the record of their christening was well illustrated by the British aviator who sent the message back to General ...
... several fortified villages and 7,000 prisoners, while the French heavily repelled a German counter-attack. With this the Battle of the Somme practically ended. The German losses were calculated at about 700,000 men, including 84,000 prisoners. On the Carso ...
... Africans sailed from Egypt on April 12, reached Marseilles on April 27, and on July 14 (1916) were thrown into the battle of the Somme. How They Held Delville Wood The brigade formed part of the famous 9th Division the two other brigades of the division ...
... Irish divisions landed in France, the Ulster division arriving a short time before the other. On the first day of the battle of the Somme, July 1, the Ulstermen got a chance of showing their worth, and well they proved it, around Thiepval. The 16th Division ...
... our purse. I speak with knowledge as one who saw the whole slope from Trones Wood to the outskirts of Ginchy, in the Battle of the Somme, thickly strewn with the dead of the gallant Irish Division. a 2 CHUBBY FINGERS A POST-BAG FOR SANTA CLAUS Drawn bv ...
... 1918. Among the colour illustrations are Mr. W. B. Wollen's picture of the London Territorials at Pozieres during the battle of the Somme in 1916, and Mr. F. Roe's painting showing the Suffolks at Neuve Chapelle. 1919. THE MOST ACCEPTABLE PRESENT FOR HER-- ...
... our purse. I speak with knowledge as one who saw the whole slope from Trones Wood to the outskirts of Ginchy, in the Battle of the Somme, thickly strewn with the dead of the gallant Irish Division. a 2 CHUBBY FINGERS A POST-BAG FOR SANTA CLAUS Drawn bv ...
... folding away my scribblings, he was presently deep in what he had really come to talk about and evoke Amiens during the Battle of the Somme. And, by the way I presently filled in a pause, talking of the War, I saw a most extraordinary thing at the station ...
... folding away my scribblings, he was presently deep in what he had really come to talk about and evoke Amiens during the Battle of the Somme. And, by the way I presently filled in a pause, talking of the War, I saw a most extraordinary thing at the station ...