... JOHN BUCHANS The BATTLE OF THE SOMME (Nelson’s History of the War. Vol. 16) DESCRIBES THE SUPERB ACHIEVEMENT OF OUR ARMIES IN SHATTERING THE GERMAN WESTERN LINE. Ready to-day. Cloth- Price 1/3 net ...

... SOMME RESULTS. I’OWEU THE EEW BRITISH ARMY. GERMAN FAILURES. semi official message trom Pans, dealing with the successes in Prance, and particularly with the Battle the Somme, points out that the pow er of the new British Army, whose strength is daily ...

... the Victoria Hall Fellowship, and is the Fart Surrey Regiment. Sergt. was one ee'lnnts who wont to the attack in the battle of the Somme dribbling football. The chaplain of the East Surrey Brigade writes to the Sergeant: I want to congratulate you very ...

... Pullin. of High Melton, Doncaster, who has been in hospital at Famborough recovering from serious wounds received in the Battle of the Somme, In July last, hae been discharged cured. way of celebrating his departure his comrades got up a concert, in which all ...

... Pauses in the Battle of the Somme were frequent and sometimes long; and during each of them the enemy Press declared, as it is deejaring now, that the British advance had beeti stopped. it was on the Somme, it may well be in this new battle. The ground ...

... British have often, but not always, had marked superiority- nn their front, especially during the Battle of the Somme. In all air activities, during that battle, the British had a most useful advantage; but the cnemv was never suppressed, was able to cause ...

... Gavrelle. The progress is of the slow determined kind with which we became familiar during the Battle of the Somme. The enemy is in greater force than on the Somme, his resistance is even fiercer, and yet our advance has been more rapid and our losses less ...

... Battle of Hell Wood. I hate not to mention them all. but must not because enemy would like know. There were Cheshire nu' n among them, and other country lads, who were blooded in battle* of the Somme, whereonce I watched them surging the high slopes, ...

... Somme drew to a close, the French troops who participated in the battle had taken 43,000 prisoners, 77 field guns, ,101 heavy guns, and hundreds of trench mortars and machine-guns. The winter arrested the battle at a most inopportune moment for us. Already ...

... interfered. In reply to Mr. Lang’s Question, defendant said he was wounded in the head just before last Christmas in the battle of the Somme, and was di-charged from the Y. and L. to work on munitions. Looking over his rgcord, Mr. Long said it was a very bad ...

... SOMME MEMORIAL SERVICES No effort is being spared to accommodate so far as is possible the large number of those anxious to attend the sendees at Sheffield Cathedral to-morrow commemoration of the battle of the Somme. The chief places of honour on the ...

... presents a flank to us. The £rcat German salient that used to extend from Arras to Albert has been diminished, by the Battle of the Somme and subsequent operations, to something like half its original width, and is not made any more comfortable by being ...