... SOMME ANNIVERSARY, The Attercliffe Branch of the British Legion yesterday celebrated the anniversary of the battle of the Somme. A procession of ex-Servicemen, headed by St. Margaret's Band, paraded the principal thoroughfares under the command of Lieutenant ...

... during the war Bavaria engaged in separate pourparlers with France. The pourparlers, it is declared, began after the Battle of the Somme in 1916. and were 90 advanced 'en the eve of the Armistice that liing Ludwig vAaiii ready ftu a wparate, poaLe. ...

... Ulsters Fallen Brave. Yesterday being the second anniversary of the charge of the Ulster Division at the opening battle of the Somme, wreaths were placed in front of Belfast City Hall by the Mayoress and other ladies in memory of the men who lost their ...

... Mrs. Wills, of Thornby Hall, Northampton, in memory of Major Edward Lyon, who died of wounds received at the second battle of the Somme, while conin►anding the 7th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry. In the windows the four national figures, St. George ...

... TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SOMME. This year being the tenth anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, a suggestion has been put forward by members of the “Twelfth Club” (representing the old members of the Battalion York and Lancs. Regiment (Sheffield City ...

... Michael O’Rourke, who during the war served with the 7th Battalion of Canadians, and stole his Victoria Cross, won at the Battle of the Somme, as well his Distinguished Conduct Mtedal and 1914 Star, says Reuter from Vancouver. Yesterday morning Holmesfield Church ...

... battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment. He was wounded in France in April, 1916, and again on Ist July, 1916, in the battle of the Somme. It is now reported that Captain Woodhouse led a raiding party into the German trenches on sth June, but failed to return ...

... ROTHERHAM’S TANK. Likely to be Broken Up and Sold as Scrap. The tank, one of the machines used at the Battle of the Somme, which was presented to the Rotherham Corporation at the conclusion of the war, is likely to be broken up and sold scrap and the ...

... SOMME BATTLE. Regarding reference in Current Topics to the City* , liattalion; - 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says 'only the Colonel 'arid six orderlies of the 12th Y. and L. could•be mustered next morning. What about the privateA? - I believe there were ...

... SOMME ANNIVERSARY. To-day is the anniversary of the opening day the Battle of the Somme in 1916, when the Sheffield City Battalion, as a unit of the York and Lancs. Regiment, suffered very heavy losses, and as a consequence Sheffield was plunged into ...

... latter school won a scholarship for Oxford (New College). Ho joined in January, 1915, the 0.T.C., and was wounded in the battle of the Somme in 1916. His last lea e was in March of this year, on the death of his father. He was a grandson of Mr. Fothergill Watson ...

... first entered the banking profession, but after tho war could not return to his old job. He wa« seriously injured the battle of the Somme, and had suffered from nervous debility. was given a good character and the Chairman (Mr. W. Scott), in binding him ...