... Just the battle of the Somme, just in the battles of the Ancre, Wytschaete, and Messines, the depth of the advance is being systematically limited on pre determined front. It is advance to the assault. Just as Verdun cleared the way lor the Somme and forced ...

... Officers *N.C..OO.’s and Private Soldiers of the Gloucester Regiment who fell or died of wounds at Longueval, in the Battle of the Somme, 1916. And that is the way we must look at these things. Every day in the last three yeams 1S an anniversary. O#ficial ...

... seconding the infantry with the courage which won the admiration of all. The 'planes came back from the battle riddled with bullets. “Since the battle of the Somme aeroplanes have engaged the enemy in liaison with our own infantry, but it is probable that they ...

... has been the biggest in history. Nothing like has ever been imagined. It beggared the biggest efforts at last year’s battle of the Somme. German messages were full of it—because Germans were getting it. But Field- Marshal Haig was as silent the Sphinx. ...

... Deuhoime, 1s in the General Hospital at Rouen, France_ euffering from dyeentery. Pie. Bolton was wounded in the first battle of the Somme. He went out again to France in April laet, and was again wounded in June. He had proviously seen service n kFgypt, ...

... such points as inverness Lopse and Glencorse Wood correspoud W the deaaly combats which occurred midway through the battle of the Somme. ‘l'ney are costly for us as weir as for the enemy, but we may be confident tat the end aimed at wil be attained. Broadly ...

... chronicle takes him across the sea to a Normandy training camp, then for a brief time to the Salient, and afterwards to the Battle of the Somme. The earlier chapters have a lightness of touch that seems to bring the book now and then into line with “The First ...

... the whole of the ground that Germany captured with so much labour and such tremendous losses has been recovered. The battle of the Somme had just been fought and won by the Allies a year ago. During the year the splendid fruits of that victory have been ...

... the head by a sniper on August lith, and succumbed to his Injuries on August 19th. He was previously wounded at the battle of the Somme, and returned to France in June this year. He formerly resided at 42, Glover Street, West Bowling. HOI.DSWORTH. Signaller ...

... Walter, 17, Parkwide serving hem dysentery. Pte. Bolton Rd.. and of the R.F.A., has been wounded %wended in the firs battle of the Somme. in both legs and his right arm. He was pre- :levant nut again to France in April last. employed at Fry's Cbemical Works ...

... admiration of all.” The Swunds b mna came baok from the baitle riddled with |of statements in the ta. i sy Snce the battle of the Somme the action of h‘]‘; resignation they . , ; S d he had resigned ) seroplanee engagmi the enemy with laison with | Conference ...

... at the finish, and as the outcome the great series of large and small battles that we call inclusively the Battle of the Somme, the enemy was forced to abandon a thousand square miles of French territory. But while the loss a thousand square miles of Picardy ...