... (450,000 men) were called up between the months of March and November, 1916. In November of the same year, after the battle of the Somme, the class of 1918 was called. March, 1917, it was fully incorporated. Three' hundred thousand additional men from the ...

... attack on Verdun. The third and last phase, in which the Allies have taken and kept the initiative, began with the Battle of the Somme. are, the author contends, carrying on our initiative to complete and unmistakable triumph. “If we will trust and have ...

... presenting Colour-Sergeant Ralph with the Hritonous Medal. This was won for devotion duty in the battle ®f the Somme, in March. at the time of the Yerdun battle, when British were extending their line and the feneh withdrew. Colour-Sergeant Ralph has won ...

... and therefore during those months there were casualties Dominion troops that front. Figures in the. four series of battles on the Somme, around Arras and and at Messines speak for themselves. They are follows; Numbers and Losses. Sommo: Five Motherland ...

... During the battles of the Somme last year we had the assured mastery of the air, and yet now in the fourth year of the war we are struggling desperately to regain it. And not only are the German airmen able to put a big fight on the battle front, but ...

... were engaged on the Western front. The figures in the four series of battles on the Somme, around -Arras and Ypres, and at Messines, speak for themselves. They are as follow: Somme. —Five Motherland divisions engaged one Dominion. Casualties per division; ...

... and his brothers often played in local cricket. The deceased served at Gallipoli and went to France, taking part tho battles of the Somme. Vimy Ridge, Messmes, was educated at Eton and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and obtained his commission in ...