... went with his regiment to France and was in two engagements, being gassed at Ypres and wounded with shrapnel at the Battle of the Somme. When they discovered his age he was sent home and had been in a training camp since, and was now ready to be sent out ...

... Lieutenant-General Sir A. Hunter Weston, whose name will be familiar to many in Sheffield. lie had in his command at the battle of the Somme a local Battalion which suffered heavily on the left of his advance. .The speech he made last night was, as he described ...

... of captain. Since May, 1916. 'lie has been adjutant of his battalion. In July. 1916, he was seriously wounded in the battle of the Somme, but recovered sufficiently to return to the front early in 1917, and has taken an active part in many operations in ...

... an irreproachable life. He held a commission in His Majesty's Army, went out and served in France, went through the battle of the Somme, was wounded in the leg. and he suffered from shell shock. Ho came back and had a bad attack of •inflammation of the ...

... of the campaign. By following its most leftward course we see where it stood in 1916 before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme,, and, forking away near to its extremity, live get the alignment at the close of that year aftr the capture of Thiepval ...

... returned to France in June, 1916, after- wards commanding a battery thr'oughoUt the battles of the Somme, Arras, Messines, and the third battle of Ypres, when he was again wounded within 100 yards of the spot where he was wounded in 1915. He was awarded ...

... whereas before the battle. the British had one strong defensive line, they have now four. A gratifying feature of our operations on the Western front has been the decrease in the per centage of infantry casualties. At the battles of the Somme they were very ...