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... Lasce•Corpl. J. 1. He out to France in Marsh, 191 d. Ani h.. heavy lightlug. He wounded In the battle a/ the Somme but wt. treated as a and did not corns home an leave tat (amber. boon after return to Tranee the dipoles/no area that hem miming, but bla ...
... third battle of Ypres July last. Sergeant Hunter's wife and three children live at 51, Lowestreet, St. Helens, and before the war he was employed at the Raven head Colliery. joined the Army in August, 1914, end was wounded at the battle of the Somme P. HnxTEF ...
... the battle of the Somme sounded not onlv a victory for British arms, but launched upon the world a new invention well, this country little realised how soon this new weapon of war was to play vet another part in the world conflict. From the Somme to other ...
... Bullough, Ltd., Accrington. Daring the 18 months he served in France he participated in much heavy fighting, including the battle o! the Somme, and was badlv wounded about the lege at Arras, on April last. Ha had undergone numerous operations Whalley, but, unhappily ...
... Nightshade. _ Looking-glass flower. .iariock, white and Hemp-nettle. Sow-thiatle. uoosetoo!. The ground, over which tho battle of the Somme was fought the late summer and autumn of 1916. was during the winter and spring 1917 a dreary waste of mud and water ...
... rith great skill those positions which eft them in possession of all the ommanding ground the front. The esult of the battle of the Somme and I -f tho operation* throughout the past! ear is that all that commanding ground laa now passed into the hands of ...
... of the unceasing pressure of the British forces during the Battles of the Somme, the Germans withdrew in March to the Hindenburg line. The British spring campaign began in April with the Battle of Arras, which gave us Vimy Ridge. and a series of brilliantly ...
... before the battle ilm British, had one strong defensive line, they have now four. INFANTRY CASUALTIES DECREASING. A gratifying feature our operations the Western front, has been the decrease in the percentage of infantry casualties. At the battles of the ...