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... experience of war.. Be serv ed in the Manchester-Regiment far two years, ant received so many as fourteen wounds in the Battle of the Somme. Re vial taken mhoner in July, 1911, but escaped at the cnd of August while on his way to Ituhliihin WINN The balance ...
... pony. Mr. Cairns has' served two years in the Manchester Regiment. He received 14 wounds and was taken prisoner in the Battle of the Somme. He effected his escape from the Germans at the end' of 'the following month whilst on his way to ../itubleben camp ...
... the launching of the Allied Somme offensive in Tilly last, exceeded anything that had ever been seen before on any battle front ' When the British and French Armies owed 'their ;Mot attacks on the German positions on the Somme the •nemy's smiths had brought ...
... pouted himself in the early months the war to fall into out blade. The Albert Ridge want in the Battle of tile Somme ; the Vimy Ridge on the drat day of the Battle of Arms: and now the-Messines Ridge has also The attack which was launched in the early hours ...
... maclane guns, which are much more effective than darts. In fact, the art of war has developed so rapidly since the battle of the Somme began that toe tactical references in this detailed] account of Gommecourt [Torn the enemy's side' already seem antiquated ...
... positions in the Ypres sector before the infantry attack. During the visit he Motored through the country where the Battle of: thi.Somme was fought last year. and studied 'with deep interest the ground over which the'.tilster Division made their historic ...
... the 60 mark.:: A -most instructive German olBcial Renort on the defence of Gommecourt•on July Ist, 1918, when •the battle of the Somme•began, is printed in the August issue of the Journal. of the Royal United r‘ervies Institution. It is the war diary ...
... energy and dash. We saw strings of prisoners who had escaped from the butchery. They told its they had taken part in the battles of the Somme and Arras, and had reached that day the height of lminan misery. The German officers were procder. Many paid a tribute ...
... that have an in ratable result The truth ix, end the Germans realise ft, , sere and now is therm& and the !nit of the battles of the Somme and the Amen. Our boys and our munition workers have wen those terrible eon. uicts. Yet only now dope the reward of ...