... 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 ...

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

... 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 ...

... whirls Col. I. V. Campbell relied the Coldstreams at the Somme. a feat for which he was awarded the V.C. The visitor can also see an ordinary gable which was used throughout the battle of the Somme by Sir Douglas Haig. and also by the King and Generals ...

... Battalion. Col. Jackson, who this week Home to Alnwick, includes in his experiences the 2nd Battle at Ypres, Battle of the Somme, Battle of Arras, and Battle of Paschendaele. ...

... 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 ...

... Regiment, has been awarded the Colonel Whitehead has seen much fightiog on the Westettl Front, was severely wounded at the Battle of des Somme. On the oittbreak of he rej 'toed al a trooper in bis old regiment, the Loyal Scouts, sabeequeetly received a coo. mission ...

... 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 percentage of infantry casualties. At the battles of the Somme they were very ...

... the battles in which the rew armies were engaged from the beginning of tha Arras offensive in April last to the close of tho struggle in Flanders in . November . They- successfully withstood severer tests than any imposed upon them at the Somme ; they ...

... iii .% mood, 1915, and rereised 'Ms commission in duly, 1916, being geaetted to the ltoyal West Kent. He was et the battle of the Somme. Bring transferred to tire M.0.t., be rime home for the trdiamg, and proeeeded tire rrinit again In February hot. ...

... finally defeated. At the beginning of the year the contending armies stood where they had been left when winter ended the Battle of the Somme and prevented the Allies from pressing home the victory they had won. The far-reaching nature of their success was seen ...

... which heralded the Battle of the Somme, a bombardment that ceased not day and night, till men were sick and dizzy from the noise which thrall between skull and brain and beat out thought. But for the description of the battle itself we have to wait ...