... compan j over twelve months. has fortunately escaped Injury far. though had several very narrow escapes during the battle of the Somme. Th 6 election for 25 children to the Royal Orphanage, Wolverhampton, takes places on Tuesday morning. Poll opens at ...

... crossed the channel fcr France on July 26th the following year. He was severely wounded in the arms by shrapnel in the battle of the Somme on July lith of last year, but failed to reach Enzland with his wounds. However he wes granted a leave in February of ...

... section) two years ago, when barely 18 years of age, and went into action in a tank when they were first used at the battle of the Somme. Ile was first employed in Mr. Eagle's office, but later was on engineering work with Mr. Eykyn, gaining knowledge which ...

... 27th. Pte. Macnamara enlisted in September, 1914, and went to France early in 1915. He was wounded, in June, in the battle of the Somme, by a machine-gun bullet through the left thigh, _ ) and sent back to England. . Upon his recovery, he again went to ...

... still are, simply enormous. The deduction which Haig draws is exactly the same that of our own High Command during the battle of the Somme. But now that the English are doing the same thing is. of course, something quite new and grand which has never been ...

... , most persistently h umpered the military operations of our armies on the Western front. Last year it brought the battle of the Somme to a standil and on almost all occasions a wet spell has set in just as our great offensives huve developed. It is ...

... prolonged, which God forbid, our armies would be stronger than ever. They would be better supplied than ever. In the great Battle of the Somme in 1916 the British artillery fire was utterly unprecedented and unexampled in the history of war. During the twenty-three ...

... went to France in November, 19i14. has taken pan many of the important engagements in the West, was wounded in the battle of the Somme Jay 3, 1016. When his platoon officer had been wonnVi, Sergeant Mason led the platoon under heavy shell lir*. his action ...

... the carved oak tablp * from shelled Arras used by Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig at his headquarters throughout the battle of the Somme. Upon this table ey?ry Army Order was signed, every report examined, and upon it the Commander-in-Ohief wrote those ...

... still are, simply enormous. The deduction which Haig draws is exactly the same as that our own High Command during the battle of the Somme. But now that the English are doing the same thing is, of course, something quite now and grand which has never been ...

... • TWO SOLDIER-POLITICIANS. When the German Emperor pressed the button the late Thomas M. Kettle, who fell at the ■ battle th© Somme last year, was in Belgium buying rifles for the Nationalist Volunteers. plainer proee was engaged making civil war in Ireland ...

... had 17 months’ pretty stiff fighting at the front. The biggest fights I took part in were the battles of the Somme last year and this year at the Ancre Battle. Our job is [maintaining the cables, which we often repair under the most severe fire —quite ...