... BATTLE ON THE SOMME WHOLE SYSTEM OF ENEMY'S TRENCHES TAKEN AT BETHUNE. HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRE SOUTH OF THE SOMME. ...

... ent of the “ Koelnische Zeitung ’ says that the battles now going on against the Austrian positions near Gorizia and on the Komen Plateau can only be compared in violence with the battle of the Somme and the last Russian offensive. ...

... Kuhl, his Chief of Staff, * for the exceilent manner which they checked the Franco-Britich attacks and thus gained the battle of the Somme.”’ ...

... under vour command. their warmest congratulations on the great triumph achieved by the Allied arms in this the third battle of the Somme. The British Empire sends its heartfelt thanks to yo and yvour most gallant troeps. ...

... France. - His father and four brothers were all hilled on the same day—July 15th, 1916—in the first advance at the battle of the Somme. The eldest son was only twenty-two. The youth's three sisters were all killed in air raids, while his mother was the ...

... PRIVATE PETER PETERSON. The above is a portrait of Peter Peterson, aged 26 years, who was killed in action at the battle of the Somme on 12th July, 1916. He was the third eon of Mr Laurence Peterson, Packin, Hillswick. Private Petersony says a correspondent ...

... France for 21 months, taking part in many imxorunt battles He was quickly promoted, and has now been raised to the rank of Coy.-Sergt.-Major. He was wounded in the back by shrapnel in the battle of the Somme last year. His promotion and decciation will be ...

... THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF BATTLE. GERMAN FUTILITY. PARIS, Saturday The thirty-first day of the battle in the Somme district brought no material modification on the whole of the front. North and south of the Somme the French organised the positions captured ...

... completing his training, was drafted to France, where he has taken part in much hard fighting, being wounded in the battle of the Somme. After a period in hospital in England, he paid a bricf visit to his friends in Mid-Yell, before againf returning to ...

... and Queant. Mecanwhile the losses of the en;m.v are in ex cess of anything that could bhave been imayz ined. 3 The battle of the Somme resulted in 730,000 men being placed hors de combat. . It is impossible to estimate those incurred in the bloody defeat ...

... GREAT BATTLE ON THE SOMME. RESULTS: 25 VILLAGES RETAKEN, 35,000 PRISONERS - CAPTURED, AND 150 GUNS TAKEN. General Jofire has an order of the day to the Armies of the North, expressing his profound satisfaction with the troops fighting on the Somme, For ...

... on Ist August, 1916, He was wounded in the battle of the Somme, and was in hospital in France for a few weeks. On recovering I‘;e again went to the fromt, and on 10th November, he was wounded at the battle of the Ancre. He was sent on to England and ...