... that have captured 110 square miles of ground in the first four days of tlio battle, as against 44 square miles which took in the first four months of the battle of the Somme in 1916. ...

... Mr Clark has ether two sons presently serving with, the Colours, Bomb. John Clark, E.CLA. ,wlio was wounded at the battle of the Somme in 1916, and Bombardier Robert Clark, E.P.A., who is at present home leave recovering from attack malarial fever after ...

... went to France in February, 1915, and was in heavy fighting. He was slightly wounded at the battle of Loos, and later he was severely wounded the battle of the Somme. On recovering from his wounds, and once more being fit tor service, he was appointed a bomb ...

... remembered that his younger brother, Lieut T. Menzies, lost leg in the battle of the Somme in 1916, and that his eldest brother, Pte George Menzies, Gordons, was killed in the same battle. Still another son of Mr and Mrs Menzies, Jnd Lieut. Vinian Menzies ...

... the E.E. as pioneer. He was promoted a sapper, and received his M.M. for repairing the wires under heavy fire at the battle of the Somme, October 6. 1916. After seeing much hard fighting in France he went to Italy, November, 1917, and there, as stated above ...

... Pastor enhardt why our men were deliberately starved, and they explained that it was a punishment, because during the battle of the Somme the British kept German prisoners three days in the front line without food. Evidently they believed this,” Singer, ...

... has died wounds on October 3+tii. The late officer went France in March, 1917, and was invalided hospital during the battle of the Somme. After convalesence he was sent back to La Bassee sector, where he took active part, and latterly has been in the recent ...

... disaster's which •vertook the Austro-Hungarian armies in Serbia aud Galicia ; in Germany it has been ebbing since the Battle of the Somme and since December’ 1916 when the Kaiser himself inaugurated chatter about peace” with his letter to Chancellor von ...

... Mr dark lias other two sons t.x.v sentiy serving with the colouxsr—Bomb. J »hn Clark, R.0.A., who was wounded at the battle of the Somme in 1915; and Bombr Robert Clark, H.F.A., who at present home on leave recovering fvom an malarial fever after being ...

... his ha ta’idh from threatened destruction the Baltic Loos. He lost his onlv brother, who was viiiitv student, the battle of the Somme, Major Strang wf(s invalided home some time o, and has been discharging important home d-dies in the interval. meanrime ...

... Conan Doyle’s History the War is resumed with the first connected and detailed account the Battle of the Somme 1916, which decribee “thegreatest one-day battle ever known in the world’s history.” WAITIKG FOB THE TRAIN. CORNER FRANCE. (Bj Cicelt Hamilton ...

... gratefully received by Mrs Dunlopifdl. Howard Place.--.ld' 7 . THE NEW BATTLE OF THE SOMME. (By Mia* H. 8. CHEETHAM.I It is yood hiding the fact that this check south of the Somme, in view of the numbers of prisoners and gum taken, hits hard.” —Koclnische ...