... jp| A NEW HUN-KILLER: FRANCE'S RAILWAY GUN This long range naval gun, used by the French for the first time at the battle of the Somme. is mounted on a railway truck, travelling on rails specially laid in an easy curve, so that by moving the truck up ...

... of Peronne. It lay just behind that part of the German lines which was opposed to General Fayolle's army during the Battle of the Somme, and suffered terribly in the fierce fighting which took place south of Peronne. In the spring of 1917, 1C retreating ...

... post the remains of our dearly beloved Decca,' killed in action on 5th May 1917. He accompanied us right through the Battle of the Somme and kept us happy and cheerful when there was nothing but mud and crumps for miles around. We have pushed once more ...

... the Ulster Volunteer Force before the war. One fell at Festubcrt in June last year the other two were killed in the Battle of the Somme on July I. They were great athletes, playing for the North of Ireland Rugby Football Club. Dr. Sawers Scott, of Withington ...

... quality, and the record this year is that the proportion of premature explosions is fifteen times less than it was in the Battle of the Somme, with the result that Sir Douglas Haig the other day paid a high tribute to the quality of the ammunition. We have ...

... resources of modern scientific warfare had been employed. This retreat was the result of the Allied success at the Battle of the Somme, which had driven so wide and deep a wedge into the German defensive system that it was endangered both to north and ...

... Windmill Country of North France and Belgium. The Nature of the Battle of the Somme near Albert in North France The above view was taken from the German lines during the fighting on the River Somme. The three villages mentioned Montauban, Thiepoal, and Maricourt ...

... of the fighting in which the Worcestershires and Wiltshires took part is from Mr. H. Perry Robinson's account of the Battle of the Somme, entitled The Turning Point (Heinemann). The fighting was then towards Thiepval:-- The ground was so torn and battered ...

... later on Director of the Tank Supply Department under the Ministry of Munitions. The Tanks made their debut at the Battle of the Somme in September, 1916, and on October 1, 1916, Colonel Stern became Director-General of the Mechanical Warfare Supply ...

... O'Connor gives a memorablepicture of the chateau in which the British Conunander-in-Chief was lodged cm the eve of the Battle of the Somme another study in contrasts. The General was at work in his room when they arrived And as we wait here, as one might ...

... the Germans. This superiority explains their success in the Battle of the Somme. The Germans understand this as well as the Allies. Mr. Philip Gibbs, in his recently-published Battles of the Somme, prints a technical report on these operations made by General ...

... comes from the Bodley Head. He was seventeen when the war broke, and nineteen when he passed to the Fuller Life in the Battle of the Somme, on 22nd September, 1916. Necessarily, then, we get a chronicle on the thought. the mother's boy what he became, and ...