... for France m July, o, He was woundand gassed at the battle of Loos in Septem. r. He spent several months in hospital, and his recovers «-* “~ lanw to th y, 1916, and was kiiled e battle of the Somme ust say that 1 have lost a most valuable soldier nd ...

... Hurope. We are told that the London houses were compelled almost to a sickly silence by the cinema pictures of the battle of the Somme. Why? Because they saw there in a sort of polite reality something of what it looks like to eee a man killed. T hope ...

... Private Burgess was drafted to France in 1916, and took part in the battle of the Somme angd also the Ancre. He contracted trench fever, after his re. covery from which be took part in the battle around Vimy Ridge, where he was wounded in one of his hands, Deing ...

... designed and constructed the new form of track, which was the track used on all the machines which took part in the Battle of the Somme. One of the difficulties they saw in connection with the Bullock track was it was not long enough; it was not turned ...

... Long years we learned and grew, and in this place XXXIV . LIEUTENANT WILLIAi\I OEL HODGSON fell in the battle of the Somme, July rst, 1916, at the early age of twenty-three. So far I have see,,, as it seems to me, no adequate notice of his little book ...

... d'Evncourt or someone on his behalt put the sponson into the description of it. Mr. Frank Russell: That was after the Battle of the Somme, Mr. Hunter Gray: [do not care wheif it was. (To the witness.) You base vour claim or your request for a reward upon ...

... Tanks were a bad design, and in practical ac tion a failure. He called in evidence Col. Johnson, who at the time of the Somme battle, was a second licutenant, and who told a harrowing storv of the failure of the Tanks owing to their defects in design. ...

... Wickham Gardens. In the first place it was one of the old original Mark 1 tanks. ‘which went through the defence at the Battle of the Somme in Sept., 1916, and cames to Lincoln with important historic tradition, .and in the second place it is one of Lincoln’s ...

... LT. G. \V. P. WYA'l'l'. L'l'. FI'I'ZROY SOMERSET, i\l.C. LT. H. CECIL SOMERSET. Died of dyselltry. K illed in the Battle of the Somme . Killed at La Boiscl!e. Dallgel'ous/y wouuded on Vim)· Ridge. March 3rd, 1917.]' COUNTRY LIFE. 211 WHAT SUSSEX THE ...

... Lincoln. Tt was quite satisfactory, and after further imbortant trials it was despatched for the critical work of the battle of the Somme, From this time the Tank beeame a Tecognised assot of the war, and since its first adhievement, in breaking German lines ...

... the middle of the after- ‘He went through the siege otP \lfl;rd?t?l:x& noon, when, without warning of any kiad, ' the battle of the Somme, and every time two torpedoes struck the food ship almost he got leave he came back to the hospital simultaneously on ...

... and handed over. Counsel did not say that they were all manufacturers at the time of the Battle of the Somme, but the Tanks that went into the Batin of the Somme were all machines o cither Messrs, Foster or the Metropolitan Carriage Company, and there ...