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... hill above tho Ancre , where they are now encamped again . No Gorman division suffered more in the final phaso of the Battle of the Somme , and this . may explain why tho naval contingent was assured on going into action this iime that it would not bo called ...
... the First Battle of the Somme , but only oas nursing sister was killed and one wounded . Doctors and nurses alike had to work eontinucosly three and fonr days and nishts . I met more than on » s'ir ...
... BATTLES OF THE SOMME AND GALLIPOLI . COMMEMORATION SERVICE IN EDINBURGH . . It was estimated that between ten and fifteen thousand people assembled yesterday afternoon in West Princes Street Gardens , Edinburgh , to participate in the drum-head service ...
... day of the battle of the Sommo the Germans employed 64 divisions—a number considerably exceeding , the entire British Army in France . Sir Douglas Haig , in summing up the results of both battles , says that at no time either on the Somme or the Lys was ...
... Flanders n ! the New Zealanders on the Western , front mat the book main ^ deals , and it follows them through the battles o £ the Somme , Measures and Passchendae ' ebesloes living pWHUUl poUirBS Of 1118 at AldeTshot and in hospital . . The writer comments ...
... a French General they cheered from their hearts one felt that they were thinking of . their own new happiness . The Battle of trie Somme—one of tLe ruiest clnoma records of tho war—showed them the British Army at its best , and they cheered again withrcal ...
... and heroism—is set out in the dispatch b y Sir Douglas Haig which is summarised in another column . It describes the battles of the Somme and the Lys in March and April , when the Germans achieved the first two stages of their great advance , and threatened ...
... which ne acted as staff-captain , and was present at the evacuations of Suvla and Helles , and in France at Both the battles of the Somme . He received the Military Cross in 1917 , and waa with his old battalion of tbe ' Worcesters , of the famous 29 tn ...