... a conunission as lieutenant in the Canadian Field Artillery, and was promoted captain at the front in 1916. At the battle of the Somme he web wounded, and received the Military for conspicuoua gallantry. Last September he became major, and in October ...

... advertisement mlumn in pnn of The Times to-day contains an offer (nun an to sell • Cremona violin which he hria played in battles of the Somme. Arras. and Simsine. At licieester yesterday Thomas Canadian aoldier. was sentenced to death for t, munler of wife ...

... begun en Christmas night, tete, when the whole of the French battle line on the Somme, and something more, was incorporated in our front. In the fighting which followed the Battle of the Somme, the British line was brought up to within one mile north-west ...

... inscription:— In Memory of the Officers and Men of tlw First South African Mande, who fell in Action In 1016. in the Battle of the Somme. Before this cross the drumhead service was held yesterday on a spot where the trees stand but a couple of feet or so ...

... original defensive forti fi cations on had been the scenes of bloody struggles, were 0, per iv CIS W. Ci this front. The battle of the Somme not wrested from the enemy with, by contrast, cornonly demonstrated that the three lines of parative ease and once more ...

... The Development of the Battle. I There is no disguising the fart that the Germans have broken clean through the defensive line which we held in France when the great battle began on Thursday. Stil Ham was the first to say se, and he has indicated the ...

... small tributary of the Somme. Vermand is situated on this etrease. , a village on the west bank of the Sonune, eig i rti, oath of Pesonne, taken by the French in the previous &Somme lighting. . Pneasa, an ancient town on the Somme. evacuated hy the Gennem ...

... IN THE BATTLE MAP. Abort. a small town on the ;eels of the Anew stream, a mile or two above its junction with the Somme. It to 11 miles south-west of Bapainne. In the retreat of the Germans after the battle of the llarne the enemy lines were drawn two ...

... both & road and railway north of the Somme. and 14 miles north by east of St. Georges, • village two miles west of centre. The German lines were up to March. 1917, Peronne. As the result of the battle of the Somme. 3fontdidier. or the main road to B re ...

... an intermediate operation before the enemy has gathered his full strength for the next hammer blow. In the Battle of the Somme and in the Battle of Arras a period of about 14 days passed after our first attack before we made the second great general advance ...

... FRENCH LINE. With the exception. however. of these isolated bodies of our troops. practically the whole of the battle area south of the Somme is now in the French zone. The approximate line of the French early this morning—unless changes took place late ...

... the the Somme. Strong French counter-attacks roads and communiestion trenches are turning failed on the western bank of the AVM. into sloughs of d which unpleasantly There was lively firing activity before Verdun. the old battle of the Somme. . —Adnaralfy ...