... Mr. Masefield's detailed and poignant description of The Old Front Line --viewed as the base from which the Great Battle of the Somme proceeded-- without emotion. The book is mainly geographical, but the Spirit of Place palpitates through it. In every ...

... 50. In 1907 Dr. Gordon, accompanied by his brother, MacLaren Gordon, who fell fighting in the Canadian ranks in the Battle of the Somme, went overland in a canoe from the Yukon to the upper waters of the Kuskokwim, and down that great stream, being the ...

... made by a British signalling officer of American birth, has just come into our hands at the moment when the battle is once more raging on the Somme. It shows the ground held by the Germans up to 7.30 a.m. on July 1, 1916, when our advance began. From south ...

... its mechanism is an open secret. It is known to the Germans, who, indeed, used some examples of it as early as in the Battle of the Somme. Its chief disadvantage is that it rapidly becomes heated, and if firing at high speed is to be maintained, a spare ...

... 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 ...

... commissions together. Lieut. Ralph Brown has been missing since the first battle of the Somme in 1916 while Capt. Lindsay Brown, who was dangerously wounded in the same battle, is still serving, and has been awarded the M.C, A fourth brother, Mr. J. Hamilton ...