... THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE BATTLE OF TIIE SOMME. TO-MORROW (SUNDAY). NATIONAL FEDERATION of oux-i-ut_ncEi!,N_ F- . • And DEMOBILWq SOLDIERS IN HE /.74L1), -- 11 - C, T,:it S.U. S :FANIFORTH ROAD RECREATION GROUND al 10 a.m. and then MARCH to the ...

... Ulsters Fallen Brave. Yesterday being the second anniversary of the charge of the Ulster Division at the opening battle of the Somme, wreaths were placed in front of Belfast City Hall by the Mayoress and other ladies in memory of the men who lost their ...

... battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment. He was wounded in France in April, 1916, and again on Ist July, 1916, in the battle of the Somme. It is now reported that Captain Woodhouse led a raiding party into the German trenches on sth June, but failed to return ...

... SOMME BATTLE. Regarding reference in Current Topics to the City* , liattalion; - 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says 'only the Colonel 'arid six orderlies of the 12th Y. and L. could•be mustered next morning. What about the privateA? - I believe there were ...

... latter school won a scholarship for Oxford (New College). Ho joined in January, 1915, the 0.T.C., and was wounded in the battle of the Somme in 1916. His last lea e was in March of this year, on the death of his father. He was a grandson of Mr. Fothergill Watson ...

... SOMME ANNIVERSARY. IMPRESSIVE SERVICE SHEFFIELD CATHEDRAL. A service was held at the Sheffield Cathedral last night in memory of the men of the Sheffield battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, who fell in the battle of the Somme, July Ist, 1916. This ...

... Also, it is no violation of the censorship to announce that the American Government fully realises that the second battle of the Somme may continue for some time, and that American forces may possibly be the means of tipping the scale. Every officer of ...

... the Kaiser’sn” peace offer” with contempt. The military position had sharply contrasted bright and dark sides. The Battle of (he Somme had shown that the strongest enemy positions could captured by our troops, but had not revealed a quick way driving ...

... advance by the British both north and south of the Somme seems likely to sweep past both sides of the famous ridge between Albert and the Somme, which we attacked frontr ally in the 1916 battle of the Somme. Little news reached London last evening from the ...

... ground that has been taken from it during an offensive that in prtigress. These distinctions arc not hard and fast- Our Battle of the Somme, for example, was in a sense a counter-offensive, for one its main purposes was to relieve the pressure on Verdun. Again ...

... Burning Towns. There is confirmation of the report that Peronne, on the Somme, 11 miles behind the German battle-front, burning. The town hastwice been wrecked already, but the Germans have probably erected there temporary and consequently inflammable ...

... 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 ...