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... NEWS OF OUR SOLDIERS. SELBY MAN KILLED AT THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. A COMPANY’'S TRIBUTE. Mr. and Mrs. H. Wain, of 15, George Street, Selby, received the sad intelligence on Wednesday morning that their eldest son, Sergt. Ernest Wain, of the West Yorkshizes ...
... Writing to our representative he says :— 1 write youn just a bit of news from the front. I have been in unother M; battle—the battle of the Somme. We were called np at 2 a.m., the 20th July, and as we reached Moutalian Wood the Germans started -helllnf us ...
... the best the commissariat can run to is to m}ypl\' the men with eeltzer water, a poor refreshment in the midst of a battle like the Somme. X But there &till scems to be any quantity of marmalade, which is not the same article we eat in England, but a kind ...
... SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S DISPATCH. The story of the Battle of the Somme, which lasted from July 1 to November 18, is told in Sir Douglas Ihig'n dispatch, which fills sixteen pages of the “Lonann Gazette.” SirdDouglu; concludes his story in these words .— “The ...
... effect. It came from an imprnved variety of a flame projector machine recommended by General von Arnim during the battle of the Somme. Then he saw the projection of burning oil bursting ent in great waves of liquid fire. A battalion of men would he charred ...
... call this show a battle, still less a victory.” He was a St. Paul's School boy, so he told me. I heard that he died t{ut evening at Puchvilliers, unthanked by Parliament.” The Battle of the Somme has been one of the greatest battles in the history of ...
... in the Battle of the Somme was forced upon them only by actual defeat on the ground. This is a strategical retreat, revealing a new phase of weakness in their defensive conditions. It has not come to our generals as a surprise. After the Battle of Boom ...
... the country and getting on with the war. They may console themselves with the reflection that the film ehowing the Battle of the Somme is vastly more interesting. Tt is, indeed, a wonderful production. Tt enables the ordinary person to see war as it really ...
... steadily and surely from day to ay, is more significant than any separate incursion through the German Front. “The battle of the Somme has emphatically demonstrated British organisation to be markedly superior, in one very important respect, to that of ...
... with the dramatic pictare ‘* Zaza,” while the latter portion was occupied with the popular war illustration of *‘ The battle on the Somme.’”” Both these were an entertainment in themselves, but in addition there were sach pictures as ‘' Peg o' the Ring'' ...
... each other .inln. 1 lbonghl A. was looking uite fit and well, though muddy and dirty, lfke everyone ?l who comes into the Somme battle now, in this fifth month of the offensive. Yon wouldu't recognise me at the present moment, I don’t think. I've neither ...
... FEach of these advances is not so much a bhattle as a part of one tremendous battle which the best judfi'ea are confident will have greater results than the Battle of the Somme. Germany, as General Smuts said the other day, is heaten, and knows it. She ...