... it, siege hoary. His Sancee's eldest brother joined the Fusiheis formed in East Ham, and wag reporte4 missing in the battle of tbei Somme in 1916. ...

... seeing service in East Africa in 11914. He WAS wounied and gained the D. 8.0. at the Battle of the Somme, and WAS mentioned in despatches for the part he took luring the battle for Messinee Ridge. When Colonel C. A. Kemble, D. 8.0., was killed, Major Hargreaves ...

... under your command their warmest congratulations on the great triumph achieved by the' Allied arms in this, the third battle of the Somme. The British Empire sends its heartfelt thanks to you and your most gallant troops. KING ALBERT'S CONGRATULATIONS. ...

... F. Peters, 1 06 44. Regt., Ics, Dalmain Road, Forest Hill, who made the supreme sacrifice on Oct. 7th, 1916, at the battle of the Somme, leaving five children to his country's care. ...

... connected witi• Park Church, and was a diligent teacher in the Westbourne Park Sueday School. He was all through the battle of the 'Somme 11916) and in the fighting at Thiepval,. Anita. Albert, etc. being wounded three times. In April. 1918, he made the ...

... —Mr. Huntley Jenkinii said accused was well connected. He ga i ne d his commission from th 6 ranks and in the first battle of the Somme was we - united and buried by a shell. He was still suffering from shook. The defalcations, amounting to £77, had been ...

... iii .% mood, 1915, and rereised 'Ms commission in duly, 1916, being geaetted to the ltoyal West Kent. He was et the battle of the Somme. Bring transferred to tire M.0.t., be rime home for the trdiamg, and proeeeded tire rrinit again In February hot. ...

... Ancre has the effect of turning by the north all the old Somme battlefield, and, as was hoped, we are winning the third battle of the Somme without fighting over the old ground. The key to the Somme battlefield is north of the Ancre, not south, and it is ...

... period two years ago in the first battle of the Somme. In the north Hindenburg's old line of defence has been crossed. Farther south the New Zealanders in the Bapaume area and Australian and British troops each side of the Somme have made great progress. The ...

... THE WESTERN FRONT. It was in February that the result of the Battle of the Somme became manifest. Begun in the I?x‘ovious summer and continued until well into the autumn, with the capture of many strong positions which the enemy had heldv for two years ...

... He first commanded the the great advance this year his troops the Ist Army took part in the capture of Army at the Battle of the Somme 1914. Sis Julian Byng, bom 186 a. Cambrai. In November 1915 he accompanied Lord Kitchener to Gallipoli. He took over ...

... of the troopers, as it will be remembered, took part in the fighting round the Contalmaison district during the battle on the Somme the * through, wherever the ground in front of our attack offered possibilities for cavalry action. The hoped-for, and ardently ...