... BATTLE OF SOMME IN FIREWORKS WHAT will the harvest be ? That is what the officials of the Walsall Carnival and Fete are now busy ascertaining, following upon Saturday's revelries. The Carnival Committee, officials, Town Council and all sections the public ...

... memory of Major Cecil Wedgwood, first Mayor of the Federated Borough of Stoke-on-Trent, who was killed in action in the Battle of the Somme on 3 July, 1916. Before leaving Stoke the Princess paid a visit to the Pageant. ...

... Battl• of th• Somme. Of the battle of the Somme, M. l'ierrateu writes that it was because it was persisted in for nearly tour months without any other apparent result than slight daily advances that the whole, chain of German positions on a front of ...

... his father's home yesterday. Joining the Army from Sandhurst, he served in France, and was seriously wounded in the battle of the Somme. Deceased, who was acting-captain to the Nigeria Regiment, West Africa, had been in Kidderminster for five weeks. On ...

... GALLANT WARWICKS. TERRITORIAL CHURCH P.% RAMS FOR NEXT SUNDAY. Next Saturday is the anniversary of the opening of the battle of the Somme, and the day on which the Warwickehire Territorial battalions won renown for the part the. ) , played. On Sunday next ...

... merchant, bat at the outbreak of war he joined up and eventually became sergeant-bomber of the Soots Goa rd.'s. At the battle of the Somme lie was gassed and badly wounded in the liec.d, which still caused him a grout deal of suffering. His Army character ...

... winter for important duties, but after two months insisted on re)oining his battalion, and was killed during the first battle of the Somme. The second son served with the Royal Marine Artillery in Flanders in 1915, and was inelided in August of that year ...

... CHURCH PARADE OF 6th ROYAL WARWICKS. The annual commemoration service, held to wark the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. was held yesterday by the 6th liattalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. The men assembled at Thormitreet, and, headed ...

... IsT ON THE SOMME. Warwicks' Move To Sure Death. GENERAL'S 'WHY ?' 17 SURVIVORS OUT OF 600. By BRIGADIER-GENERAL W. R. LUDLOW, C.B. (Honorary Colonel Bth Batt. Royal Warwiekbhire Regiment (bt 1 July. 1916, eight years to-day, commenced tho Battle of the Somme ...

... nearest convenient Sunday to 1 July, the day upon which the battalion fought so magnificently at the opening of the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and in so doing lost over 92 per cent. of its effective strength. The service, which is an annual memorial ...

... parade to St. Martin's yester- mingham University Degree Congregation. Left day to commemorate the anniversary of the battle of the Somme.. The Chaplain• General, Rev. G. to right: Sir Gilbert Darling, the Principal E. C. Jarvis, preached an eloquent sermon ...

... Mrs. Herduian, he founded a ('hair of Geology, at a cost of £lO.OOO, in memory of their eon, who was killed in the battle of the Somme, and on Mrs. Herdman'a death in 1922 he gave £20,000 for a memorial building for the department of geology. Sir William ...