... 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 ...