... service at the front, where his gallantry and efficiency won for him his present rani re . lber lg was wounded in the battle of the Somme. After serving his time in the firm of Messrs. Robinson & Cleaver, Belfast. be enlisted in the Y.C.V.'s, and weal So ...

... THE WESTERN FRONT. It was in February that the result of the Battle of the Somme became manifest. Begun in the previous summer and continued until well into the autumn, with the .pture of many strong positions which the enemy had hold for two years, it ...

... vacated, He served at the front with the Westi Belfast &Battalion for a considerable time, and won the D.S.O. at the ‘Battle off the Somme. : | - ...

... the Derry Battalion of the Ulster Division. He was mentioned in despatches by Sir Douglas Haig in connection with the battle of the Somme. Captain F. Hcylnnd Smyth. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, son of Major Arthur Smyth, Ballintemple, Garvagh. Captain John ...

... Belfast. He now the Second General Western Hospital, Manchester, suffering from trench fever. He was severely wounded the Battle of the Somme July. 1916, whilst serving as sergeant the .C.\. s. BARK AND FILE CASUALTIES. Baiter, Rim. R-LB.. a). LUlipnt Street ...

... Charles C. Craig. i 3 the represen| tative of South Anirim He was wonun| ded and taken prisomer at the opening of the Battle of the Somme wiile ser| ving with The Ulster Division, and is the honour of knighthood has been conferred, is now s'rving his third ...

... of ‘Mr. Toole’s sons joined the Canadians at the outbreak of the war, one of whom, Lieut. E. T. Toole, fell at the battle of the Somme in ’Segtcmber. 1916. Another,son, Lieut. Jack Toole, was awarded the Mthry Cross for devotion to duty at_the sal!e‘battlc ...

... Clictolat • Hill. For the two rears Captain t haltners has been attached to a division another front. 1. was wounded at the battle of the Somme. elder brother, riee,ond-Lieutenant W. }famish Chalmem of the Didion Army. Y.-its killed is oction in captain a brother ...

... years. The attack see where it stood in 1916 before the commence- was then turned upon the ascheudaele Ridge, ment the battle of the Somme, and. forking encompassing the British position upon the east near its extremity, get tho alignment and north-east, ...

... of a large force of artillery during Eve months at the Battle of the Somme. BRILLIANT GENERAL. General Grossetti, the hero of the greaD drive planned by Foch at Fere-Champeumbe during the Battle of the Marne, had also played a brilliant part at the head ...

... enlisted in .the Ulster • Division. His younger brother. Sergeant Richard Thornton, Middlesex Regiment, was wounded at th© battle of the Somme. FLYING OFFICER KILLER News has been received at Newcastle (Counts Down) that Lieutenant John V. Knox, 8.F.C., eldest ...

... if the battle of the Somme, which, after six months' arduous fighting, ended in the capture of the Somme Ridge and the forcing the. Germans from the Bapaurae Ridge. Yet that was only break a few miles across the ridge from tho valley the Somme to the ...