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... After eighteen days in the trenches here, the battalion enjoved a spell of eight days out. A week later the memorable Battle of the Somme opened, with every gun on a front of twenty-five miles speaking, and speaking without pause. This battalion of the ...

... Gallipoli before going to France. Three gold stripes tell their own tale wounds—at the Hard noil es, 7th June, 1915; Battle of the Somm«i, Ist July, 1916; and Menin Road. 30ih September, 1917. The last was first Blighty,’ added with Emile, Ijears hie honours ...

... rains -of Beaumont Hamel, with an officer who, before he had received staff distinction, had fought all through the battle of the ,Somm# with his regiment, the same subject cropped in the conversation. It's all very well, the offioer said, to take ...