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... obtained his commission from the Cambridge O.T.C. in March, 1915. He has been at the front since last July, was in the battle of the Somme, and was wounded February 8 last, but soon relumed duty Hi* brother, Captain G. Gerard Wilson, R. War. R.,,4a also serving ...
... counter-attack which the Germans yesterday managed secure posses&ion of Freenoy is, I believe, the first instance in the battle either the Somme or Arras that any village after being firmly in our hands the Owenty-fonr honra has been won back again the Germans ...
... all. Had he been spareAl am sure he would have made a great name for ihanself as a soldier. did awfully well in the battle on the Somme last year.” ...
... last despatch. This is the second time Captain Shewring has been thus honoured, the first being on the occasion of the battle of the Somme Captain Shewring, who was articled the engineer at the Wp..t Bromwich Corporation Gasworks, enlisted the Birmingham ...
... VILLAGE. The counter-attack by which the German* yesterday managed to secure is, 1 beliove, tne first instance in the battle either the .Somme or Arras that any village after being Hrmlv in our hands for 21 hours has been won back again the Germane (says the ...
... therein an entire battalion of reserves, including a staff major. Steel-clad monitors, which were so effective in the battle of the Somme last autumn, took part in the bombardment. These monitors, with their power suddenly disappearing, possess all the ...
... *THE SOMME BATTLE. century hence may able to say whether the full story of the battle the Somme has been written and how many historians and volumes it has taken tell it. Meanwhile, though the full narrative cannot be attempted yet by any single writer ...
... possession of some curious evidence regarding the longrange guns which I have lately written. Immediately after the battle of the Somme the Gcmran Higher Command decided that long-range flat trajectory guns were necessary for confusing the enemy’s organisation ...
... masters. HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. HISTORY OF SERBIA. Captain H. W. V. Tempcrley. IDs. 6d. net. Bell. THE TURNING POINT: The Battle of the Somme. H. Perry Robinson. 6s. net. Heinemann. ARTHUR STANTON: Memoir. the Bight Hon George W.‘ E. Russell IDs. 6d, net, Longmans ...
... British front says;—lt becomes banal speak the enemy losses- They exceed anythin# that can reasonably imagined. The battle of Ac Somme cost the enemy 730,000 men hors de combat according to exact statistics; what will this bloody defeat of Arras cost ...
... I’hance. Mnndny. The heavy thnmbrstonne oi the summer helps to brinx out the grim likeness tin- Iruttle ot Arras to the battle of tUe Somme field hose ugliness now smothered the golden suns innumerable dandelions. are suffering the handicap necessary all advances ...
... and the work our stretcher-bearer* i* described not heavy. Indeed, cannot be too much dwelt upon that, taking the battle* of the Somme standard the cost groat offensive, the operations, which began April 9 last, have been carried with low casualty lists ...