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... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME SIB , DOUGLAS HAIG'S DISPATCH FOR THE ' TROOPS IN FRANCE . The Secretary of the War Office announces that arrangements are being made for an early iraue of copies of Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig ' s dispatch on the Battle of the ...
... co-operating as they did on - the Sommo a year ago in what may prow to be a conflict as eventful as ¦ Battle of- tferf Somme . It is mainly a British . battle , and the battlefield is the old fighting ground between the Yser and the Lys , which so . much British ...
... vhea the German retreat bears witness to . the force of the smashing blows delivered by the British armies in . fee Battle of the Somme . The story , which liff ; Bachaa feBs as only lie can , ...
... other day that wo thought the capture of a few hundred yards of trench a matter for rejoicing . With the coining of the battle of the Somme the British public learned to expect the dail y gain of a French village as regularly as . the morning milk . Now such ...
... , d tflstanc © of about 150 mile Tho map marks tho changes in the line at , at July 1 , at March 12 th , dfter the battle of the Somme , and at Apul 27 th last and as the oalo i 1 men to 3 9 r mJes , minute detail of place mimes , heights , Lo , are clearly ...
... ' In proud and lorins memory oi W . CAECilix STUAST Mxofariaub , Argyll Mi Suthsrland Hishlandors , wio fell in the battle- oS the Somme , 27 th Ausnst 1916 . MOURNING . —All Degrees of Mourning Sequi . rites Promptly Supplied ; Costumes . Dresses . ^ ...
... and . the Battle oE the Sorame drew to a close , the French troops participating . 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 ...
... retreat . 1 The British drum fire , it is conceded ; was so tiolent tiiat '' - - _ its * rtillerj fire daring ihe Battle of the Somme ¦ • ¦ - ¦ - ' * - * iras inagnScaat by comparison . . Tha entire front . . Ens of fiie German-positiaas was cat off ...
... points out that the same trials of strength preceded the battle of the Somme from June 24 to July 1 , 1916 , when the British troops executed no fewer than seventy raids from Ypres to the Somme . , ' The'Allies recognise as clearly , says the critic ...
... who were asking them -what lessons should be drawn irom the Battle or the Somme . . . ¦ • * . According to a -report seized from the Germans , M . Barres says , at the beginning of the battle of the Soinine we placed the Germans in ; a position of extreme ...
... , . Captain George Henry Hall Scott , Queen ' s Royal West Surrey Regiment , who was killed on July 11916 . in the Battle of the Somme . In the church will shortly be placed by the colonel and remaining officers of the ^ original • 7 th Queen ' s , a ...
... armoured caterpillar traction engines , and a certain broad landscape quality attaches to such pictures as that of the Battle of . the Somme and the one eniitled Watching our Artillery Fire on Trones Woou from Montauban . Each drawing has its own value as ...