... ’ SOMME HEROES. . | - BALLYMENA'S TRIBUTE. SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THIEPVAL That the memory of the Lrave boys from Ballymena who fell gallantly fighting for the Empire at the Battle of the Somme is still held green in their native town- was fittingly testified ...

... coastructed prior to the retreat a jear ago. W N Y @ N BACK TO THE SOMME. STIRRING NARRATIVE. \ (HARGE OF THE TANKS. WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES, Monday Nigiit.—The second battle of the Somme is being fought by armies in the open. Along the tlaming frout from ...

... could be retained. The re battalions further south, in of La Beselle and Owvillers, in action also, the first we the Battle of the Somme equally well upheld the ment’s honour. Then n tember they shared in the Division’s triumph at Gu leading the way in ...

... Lieutenant Bonsfield was received by the King on his arrival in London and awarded the M.C. for his bravery in the battle of the Somme, 1916. . INTERNMENT CAMP VISITORS. HER GERMAN SWEETHEART. Pauline Bock, single woman, a Russian by Birth, was charged ...

... wreath bore the fcllowing inscrifptiou:—h: memory of our brave men who fell fighting gallantly and victoriously at the Battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916.” The New Memorial Park, at which the tribute was laid, and which is now progressg towards completion ...

... their teolonrs flving and with the (rv of “ No surrender on their lips. Some people were intelingd ta look upon the Battle of the Somme | as a defeat, but he for one looked upon it s me of the sreatest division ppianse)—and he wa proud of the fact that ...

... Anderson, who was aleo examined, stated that on-the outhreak of war he joined the 12th Battalion R.L.R., and at the battle of the Somme lost the use of his right arm. He didn’t know M'Donald. Witness lived in May Cottage, qaite convenient to the railway ...

... of ~ Private James Lennox, RLR.. who died on 22ud August, 1916, of wounds received in a-tion on I=t Juiy, 1916, at Battle of the Somme. Two vears have passed Still T remember my loving son, He was so bright and fair. p; He has gone to dwell among the ...

... Ballynena, WALLACE—Iu affectionate rememberance of our dear son, Rifleman Alexander Wallace, R.LR.. killed in action at the battle of the Somme, Ist July, 1916, aged 26 years. “He hath finished the work which Thou gavest him to do.” Inserted by bis l-‘in_(hé!-_ ...

... been admitted to hos ital suffering from wounds. !(lfleman Alex, {.‘uke. a third son, was killed in July, 1916, at the battle of the Somme. Archie was gassed twice and Wililam was previously waunded. Rifieman Win. Mack, Roval Irish Rifles, eldest son of Sergeant ...

... war in Germany. He enlisted in 1915, and went to the front with the Ulster Division, with which he took part in the Battle of the Somme. Prior to %oininx the colours he was employed in the Braidwater Mill. His brother, Private Charles Watson, AS.C,, has ...

... Ballymena. He icined un on the for‘mation of the Ulster Division, and was wounded on Ist July of last year at the battle of the Somme. Belore enlisting he was in the employment of Mossr«. Smith & Co., Ballymena. His brother, Private Robert Thompson, ...