... at the midland Railway carriage and wagon department. Pte. A. W. Lowndes, who was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of the Somme on i July, is now reported by the War Office as believed dead on or about 2 September. He was previously employed at ...

... date from t August. He commenced in the Public Schools Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, in 1915, and was wounded at the battle of the Somme on t July of the following year. Prior to joining the Colours lie was the librarian of the Midland Railway Institute ...

... Holmwood, Surrey. Sec.-Lieut. Arthur Bertram Longbottom, who as a private in the Royal Fusiliers was wounded at the battle of the Somme, July, 1916, and had subsequently to undergo a critical surgical operation for an injury contracted during heavy fatigues ...

... Porters W. E. Garland (previously wounded in Gallipoli and France), A. V. Thorpe, and J. Sayer have been killed in the battle of the Somme; Parcels Porter Tyrell is a prisoner of war since Le Cateau, August, 1914; Parcels Porter Williams has been three times ...

... Coles, City of London R. 8., messenger, Whitecross Street.—Military Medal for carrying wounded men Out of action at the battle of the Somme. Carpi. P. E. Phillips, Queen Victoria's Rifles, clerk, Whitt-- cross Strect.—Military Medal for special night scouting ...

... Sergt.. Arthur D. Mortimer, Derby, D Company, 7th (Robin Hood) Battalion Sherwood Foresters, was wounded at the battle of the Somme—in the advance on Gommecourt Wood—on Saturday morning, Ist instant. His injury (bullet wounds in both legs) is not serious ...

... RAILWAYS AND THE CAMPAIGN. A dispatch from Sir Douglas Haig dated 31 May, relating to the concluding phases of the battles of the Somme and the beginning of the great retreat, as the consequence of victory in an acute engagement lasting for eight months ...