... deficient in inches, but has remark able pluck. I am sure that his athletic training stood him in good stead in the recent battle of the Somme, and it is to be hoped that the famous Irish hockey exponent will soon recover convalescence, and once more be fit to ...

... stood second to none for several years in the hockey world. Lt. R. Gerard Garvin, who was killed a fortnight ago in the battle of the Somme, was the son of Mrs. J. L. Garvin and of the editor of The Observer. The young officer had acquired his father's taste ...

... soon made sergeant; he then obtained a commission in the Manchester Regt., and was wounded on July 7tli, 1916, in the battle of the Somme, being made temporary Captain. Sec.-Lt. T. M. Mathieson MacBeth was born in Leith in 1896, and educated partly at Trinity ...

... the School, and an ever-to-be-remembered name at Tonbridge as the glorious subaltern of sixty-eight who died in the battle of the Somme, was in the Tonbridge XI. in the 'sixties. The 'seventies produced W. B. Pattisson in the XI., '69, '70, '71, and captain ...