... BATTLE ON THE SOMME The Allied Offensive ...

... FRIDAY, 4 AUGUST, 1916. BATTLE OF THE SOMME. ALLIES' NEW TACTICS. The following' dispatch dated Monday has been received from Mr. H. Warnel Allen; the representative of the British Press with the French Army It is highly impcniant that the meaning of ...

... WOUNDED IN SOMME BATTLE. Mrs. Taylor, 18, Stewart Street. Nuneaton. has received news that her son. Pte. H. liniOtt, has heen mounded with shrapnel. Pte. KniOit e nlisted in the Scottish Riflea soon after the onthreak of the war, and has hen in Franee ...

... was unmarried and worked as miner with Carton Company at Xo. Pit. had been 1o months in Fra-cj and took part in the battle of the Somme, meeting his death on I util July. was attached one the Divisional Machine Gun Corps. ' ...

... nts which had been made review v.- ; c cancelled. Tho capture logically regarded as concluding second phase of the Battle of the Somme. are now well established on the line which our &eeond main push—that which began July —was directed. ground now won ...

... serving his country, while two weer members are in hospital suffering from wounds. Private Mercer was engaged in the battle of the Somme when be was struck by a piece of 'a bursting shell on July 4th. His funeral et Aston was attended by about 50 wounded ...

... 1., whose people reside at Crossford, Cliryston, was firmerly a fireman a't Auc'icngeich. was killed on July 1, the Battle of the Somme. Private James Murray, Highland Light Infantry, has been wounded in action. He formerly resiled at Muirhead Cottage ...

... letter received by his parents in Chestnut-street, from Rifleman D. N Wain, of 'he King's Royal Rifles, refers to the battle of the Somme, in which he took part. He says that he does not remember much of the rush across the half-mile of. open ground but ...

... the flesh cooking, so to speak, and acquired the taste for war. On the other hand, the Russian advance and the great battle on the Somme are producing their effect. A letter from the front has gone the round of the German papers, in which an excited appeal ...

... EASTERN COUNTIES. BRITISH AIRMEN BUSY. CONTINUED RUSSIAN ADVANCE. - Wednesday. 734 day of the war. 34th day of the battle of the Somme. German airships made a visit to the East Coast on Thursday morning. They crossed the coast in the Hastern Counties ...

... Merit for - gal entry, and enemies,' under heavy fire during •he action of July let. 1916. the semmeneement of the' battle of the Somme, in the Colinearam teeter.•• lb, promotion wan granted at the same time. Bombardier J. W. Ryan. of the R.F. A.. and ...

... Dsit! News at Rotterdam wired under Sunday's. date ae follows: From the point of view of German re• sistance the battle of the Somme has reached a most critical phase, for there ta ground for the belief that unless within a very short period they d ...