... The Empire. A very fine series of pictures depicting scenes in the Battle of the Somme have been screened at the Empire Theatre, Coventry, this week. Apart from the entertaining character of the pictures, they are serving a useful purpose in bringing ...

... Machine Gun Corps, has won the Military Medal after being in France 12 months. This is the reward for services in the Battle of the Somme. He was employed at the Swift Works, and lodged at 14, Clarence Street, Coventry. Oakes is a native of Kidderminster ...

... and Queant. Mecanwhile the losses of the en;m.v are in ex cess of anything that could bhave been imayz ined. 3 The battle of the Somme resulted in 730,000 men being placed hors de combat. . It is impossible to estimate those incurred in the bloody defeat ...

... October 13th last Viscount Clive died of the wounds he received while leading his company of Ihe Welsh Guards at the battle of the Somme. Powis Castle is a home of mourning, but the name of its dead heir stands high on the Roll of Honour. H. AvRAY TIPPING ...

... Horn, 2/7 Royal Warwickshire Regiment, whose parents reside at 17, Bell Green, was wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of the Somme, on July 19th, 1916, and he has just sent home the accompanying picture. He spent his 918 t birthday in Germany last ...

... impossible fo1· cavalry to get round the enemy's flanks, our Third Dimension Cavalry go over his head. It was in the battle of the Somme that our aeroplanes first took Now it is part of their regular seriously to the cavalry game. Now it is part of their ...

... on Ist August, 1916, He was wounded in the battle of the Somme, and was in hospital in France for a few weeks. On recovering I‘;e again went to the fromt, and on 10th November, he was wounded at the battle of the Ancre. He was sent on to England and ...

... 27th. Pte. Macnamara enlisted in September, 1914, and went to France early in 1915. He was wounded, in June, in the battle of the Somme, by a machine-gun bullet through the left thigh, _ ) and sent back to England. . Upon his recovery, he again went to ...

... leave;;. My boy went, he repeated, and again, straightening his bent back. fixed his blue eyes on mine. It was at the battle o' the Somme that he was missed. Months after they found him hangin' on the Jarmans' barbed wire-naught but a few pore fragments ...

... Sussex Yeomanry; while his third son, Lieutenant Geoffrey W. P. Wyatt of the 3rd Buffs, was killed in action in the Battle of the Somme on September 15th. Mr. Hugh Wyatt's second son, Captain Richard Wyatt of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, is now serving ...

... and Boulogne and towns in that area. Such a reputation did these squadrc·ns \~in as air-scrapper;; that when the battle of the Somme began Sir Douglas Haig borrowed a couple of squadrons of them to help his own chaser squadrons, and the R.N.A.S. pilots ...

... is what Artemus Ward called a literary cuss, and perhaps there was poetic exaggeration in his suggestion that the Battle of the Somme must be fought out on the potato fi elds of England ; but in any case I thought it devolved on a plain citizen to ascertain ...