... fall of Bapaume is the culmination the battle of the Ancre, but that battle is only a final episode in the greater battle for the Somme, which in its turn is episode, though it may be decisive one. in the battle of the Western front It is, ...

... yean of age. He joined the Army in February, 1915; went to France in June, 1916; and was also wounded in July in the battle of the Somme. was the only son of Mr. and Mr*. Metcalf, of 265. West Derby-road. litverpocl. employed before tbr war by Me. -A. P ...

... just as far from a decision they are now, and indeed the position for them would be very much what it was before the battle of the Somme began. The Germans are, with the possible exception of the Chinese, the most imitative people earth, and at last they ...

... Fere, and Laon. That line the German* retreated from the Somme; has einoe become commonplace of but that cannot say at {meant. The journalism, and German are Germans have shirked the single-battle vaunting it. .election a. a masterpiece of iseue. knotong ...

... are being carried out wide ft front and auch epecd. The. Crowq, Prince of Bavaria, taught by experience gained at the battle of the Somme, longer antiou* fight defensive action,. and. therefore, by his withdrawal, escapee the artillery preparation and systematic ...

... Miraumont, and fries was being heavily bombarded. ft was like day in the old battles of the Somme, and brought back to me old memories frightfulnesa. Behind nie. were the Somme battlefields one vast landscape of the abomination of desolationj strewn still ...

... said. ‘We are lost!’ After the battles the Somme the men groaned and wept when they were sent off o the front. •God!' they cried, ‘tho horror the French and English gunfire! Oh, Christ, save us!’ During the battles of the Somme the vo.unded poured bock thousand ...