... The Battle of the Somme. On zero day the Sheffield batteries formed the Field Artillery in support of the 36th (Ulster Division). Left and right of them, the attacking divisions were held up. suffering huge losses. The Ulsters, however, got on well, ...

... THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE BATTLE OF TIIE SOMME. TO-MORROW (SUNDAY). NATIONAL FEDERATION of oux-i-ut_ncEi!,N_ F- . • And DEMOBILWq SOLDIERS IN HE /.74L1), -- 11 - C, T,:it S.U. S :FANIFORTH ROAD RECREATION GROUND al 10 a.m. and then MARCH to the ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... SOMME ANNIVERSARY. IMPRESSIVE SERVICE SHEFFIELD CATHEDRAL. A service was held at the Sheffield Cathedral last night in memory of the men of the Sheffield battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, who fell in the battle of the Somme, July Ist, 1916. This ...

... Also, it is no violation of the censorship to announce that the American Government fully realises that the second battle of the Somme may continue for some time, and that American forces may possibly be the means of tipping the scale. Every officer of ...

... ions, the report says, have taken into account not merely the precise class of tanks which weut into action at the battle of the Somme, but also any modified or improved classes of tanks which mav fairlv be considered to result from the normal development ...

... to 1916, referring to a personal queetion, said: was charged with the wanton waste of men entrusted command at the Battle of the Somme. I repudiate that charge with indignation. The measures taken which led this loss were either in opposition to repr ...

... After serving in Egypt and France Uie was wounded on the City Battalion’s great 'day, July Ist, 1916, in the first battle of the Somme. Since then he has been attached to the srd York and Lancaster Regiment. He is the •on of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ingold ...

... the Kaiser’sn” peace offer” with contempt. The military position had sharply contrasted bright and dark sides. The Battle of (he Somme had shown that the strongest enemy positions could captured by our troops, but had not revealed a quick way driving ...