... silken flag worked Princt.-! Patricia herself—were captured the mans in silent midnight raid in the ear'K days of the battle of the Somme, but retak.-a a tew hours later after sacrifice reconnaissance in which twenty Canadians laid down their lives*that ...

... will bo tor ever associated with the glorious, though ec.stly, effort of the Ulster Division the opening of the first battle of the Somme -July Ist, Ifllfi, and there was interested speculation in ray club last night as to whether the division or any of ...

... enlisted in .the Ulster • Division. His younger brother. Sergeant Richard Thornton, Middlesex Regiment, was wounded at th© battle of the Somme. FLYING OFFICER KILLER News has been received at Newcastle (Counts Down) that Lieutenant John V. Knox, 8.F.C., eldest ...

... GREAT BATTLE RAGES AIL DAT. -CAUSE FOR PRIDE & THANKFULNESS.” Fifty German Divisions Attack. UNPRECEDENTED mass of QUNS. righting continued till late Thursday night and all day yesterday t'.oag ihe whole battle front. The enemy has made progress at certain ...

... matter should secure him the favour with British readers. . Sir A. Copan Doyle concludes his detailed account of the battle of the Somme in 1916, and emphasises its decisive importance by the statement that it was the greatest day*s work ilk the war.” Two ...

... and was for a year and tialf in France and through the battle of the Somme with the Ulster Division. Having obtained his oommiasion, was attached to the Irish Division, and was through the battle of Cambrai. Subsequently he volunteered for the Royal Air ...

... British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1916” (London; Hodder & Stoughton; net). It is almost entirely taken up with the battle of the Somme and its pendant the Ancre operations. The special feature this work, as have noticed in reviewing the earlier volumes ...

... Dovle’s history of the war is resumed with the first connected and detailed account of the battle 01 the Somme in 1916, which he describes as the greatest one-day battle ever known in. history.’* have already quoted fine description of the glorious gallantry ...

... 1918—1916. The Two ■ Battles of the Somme. The Press Association says;—lt interesting to compare the results of the recent fighting on the British and French fronts in the Somme area with those achieved in th’e first battle the Somme. From ...

... trench. also assisted carrying oat the last man of the party when returning to the trenches He was twice wounded the battle of the Somme on July I, 1916. When recovered from hie wound* returned Franoe, having obtained commission the regular army, and was ...

... it is outrage insult to onr dead that the Sinn Feiners who shot our soldiers in the back only few weeks before the battle of the Somme should now be coming here preach their disloyalty and to ask the mothers and fathers and the brothers of . those who ...

... Some figures as to tho losses earlier battles have recently appeared in the German journal Das Neue Europa.” From these learn that great Verdun, battle cost the enemy 368,700 men, and the first battle of the Somme 440,000 men. These figures are almost ...