... Ballymena. He icined un on the for‘mation of the Ulster Division, and was wounded on Ist July of last year at the battle of the Somme. Belore enlisting he was in the employment of Mossr«. Smith & Co., Ballymena. His brother, Private Robert Thompson, ...

... evacuated when he left the Somme 1 vear ago. To-day there was some fighting on the east of the High Wood. Germav guus were shelling Fricoort Wood and village, :nd Marmetz, their old Jine at the heginning of the first battle of the Somme. It was rot a particalarly ...

... its duty as one man. They had done so, and the Ulster Division had covered themselves with glory in the Battle of the Somme and in all the other battles in which they were engaged right down until the last ten days. The Ulster Division had proved that the ...

... from above the !Scnrpe to below the Somme, pressure ranging I:'mm the guiet prodding of Australian patrols (e savage fighting in the outskirts of Llhpauma and fresh attacks of British lu.(:n-‘ lions across the old Somme battletield, he must l.t the samo ...

... and country. Continuing, he told how he and the great Ulster leader, Sir Edward Carson, had visited the field of the battle of the Somme, where the Ulster Division had won| such undying fame on that glorious Ist of | July, 1916, and of the great feeling ...

... Ireland, and N tarily danttihe oF i ” s‘o's; Roval | msideration -89, & soldier, who 1n this Instane Poudded in the battls of the Somms Clare. Captain and District-Inspector A. H. R. Richmond has rejoined the force from the army, and received the honorary ...

... Home Ruie. They were prond of the part that Orangemen were playing in this war, and they re-- membered greatly the battls of the Somme on Ist July, 1916, and the great deeds of valoar that had beer done since that. He thaunked them for taeir patient hearing ...