... Mr. and Mrs. Stones have another son who, after serving colours, is now discharged through wounds he received at the battle of the Somme of last year. ...

... Both joined the Army in 19 16, and were trained at Gosport. They ' both volunteered for France in July, and in the battle of the Somme. In the fighting J. H. Bradshaw was wounded. Returning to the line to his brother George he was buried. and George had ...

... He enlisted in 1914 as a private obtaining a commission .in 1915. The de. ceased captain received the M.O. in the battle of the Somme of the saute yecr. On March 21st of this year Capt. Sheard was severely wounded at St. Quentin, and was later taken ...

... Messrs. Willmer Bros. and Co., Ltd., Victoria-street, Liverpool, he Joined up in February, 1916, and was wounded at the battle of the Somme. Ile was taken prisoner on March 24th of this year. O Mrs. Worrall and family,. to whom the deepest sympathy will be ...

... was granced a corn- I missior, and gazetted to the Manchester Regt He was severely Ivounded en the first day of the battle of the Somme. July Ist; 1916, on which , lay one of his Mothers, Lieut. S. R. Allen. of the Manelicsters, was killed. After about ...

... wounds received the same day, May 16. He joined the army in January, 1915. and had been on service just three rears. the battle of the Somme. July, 1916, be was wounded. Be' was 25 years of age. The Officer Commanding his regiment has written to say be was ...

... 1918. It will be remembered that Pte. Gardner, who joined the Cheshire Regiment in January, 1915, was wounded in the Battle of the Somme. in July of the following year. After recovery, he was sent out to France again, in January Of this year, Be was a ...

... of names as those of Sir A. Conan Doyle (who writes the third instalment of his thrilling and vivid narrative of the Battle of the Somme in 1916), W.W. Jacobs E. Ashmead-Bartlett, Bartimeus, Alexander Hull, Melville D. Post, G. R. Sims (with another of ...

... viatoil. the Germans having been compelled to act on the defensive by the great British attack on the Somme. Another greater effict of the battle of the Somme was the German retreat from Arras to the Aisne in February, 1917, and whilst the British were reclaiming ...

... and he /Jaw considerable service in France, being out for about nineteen months, and taking part in the principal battles of the Somme. He gained his commission last year, and after returning to France as an officer he was badly wounded in the left hand ...

... his th Pala, and fought through ell the return from England. Company-Sergeantrank of Q.M.S he was recommended for battles of the Som.me. After holding the - Major Hurley, writing to the bereaved a wile, ri ! • • The sa d news of the death. commission ...

... Inland Watt-- ways and Docks Seetion of the R.E. Second- Lieut. Henry Slater entered the in June, 1915. was th.rough the battles on the Somme, after receiving hie commission pr, , - ceeded to Egypt, and is now on duty somewhere in the Near East. A turt!icr ...