... SECOND BATTLE OF THE SOMME. SECOND EDITION cou MAGNIFICENT STAND BY OUR TROOPS. With the British Armies, Monday Night. The second battle of the Somme is being fought by armies the open. Along the flaming front from the wilderness above Bapaume across ...

... . Miles j On tie ^ nap are shown the Allies' line before the Battle of the Somme , and the positions to which advance was made when the enemy were forced back to the Hindenburg Line in the spring of last year . Tho area between tie two lines is the region ...

... us lie sixth day of what may be called tne second Battle of the Somme , tie enemy lias further advanced tne bead of Ms attacking columns in ihe direction of Paris , and at the same time has narrowed his driving front . West of the Sonime , in the region ...

... 60 MILES BATTLE GROUND. The Biack Line shows the British front before the present battle. The portion ! shaded with sloping lines is roughly territory the Germans have retaken. The) Dotted Line shows our front before the battle of the Somme in July, 1916 ...

... Glasgow Police Force previous to enlisting. This is the second time he has been wounded, the first oocssion being in the Battle of the Somme. ...

... AXD FLAXDERS , . Vol . III ., 1916 , in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gives the first detailed account of the gigantic Battle of the Somme . Uniform ¦ with above— The British Campaign in France and Flanders , Vol . I ., 1914 ( Third edition}— The British ...

... was at first thought to be heavy guns in action at Nieuport. THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE SOMME. TREMENDOUS MEMY PRESSURE. The enemy continues his tremendous pressure on the western battle front, and at some pinata has compelled our troops to fall back. Wherever ...

... Stirling. Sergeant Aitken joined the colours in September, 1914, and was sent to France in January. 1915. took part in the battle of the Somme in August, 1916, and on •oeing his officers killed he took charge of the Gordons u der him, nad fearlessly leading them ...

... Bapaume and Alliert, and was the scene of hotly contested fighting in the first battle of the Somme. This communication also reported slight enemy progress across the Somme south of Peronne, and, further south, the capture the Germans of and Guiscard, ...

... existence. After eighteen days in the trenches here, the battalion enjoyed spell of eight days out. week later memorable Battle of the Somme opened with “ every gun a front of twenty-five miles speaking, and speaking without pause.” This battalion of the Gordon* ...

... ON THE SOMME AGAIN. Magnificent Stand by our; Troops, With the British Armiee, Monday night. The battle of the Somme fought bv armies the open. Along the flaming front from the wilderness oonvulsed by nearly three years trench warfare into the kills and ...

... Campaign in France and Flanders, 1916. It contains the first detailed account of the gigantic Battle of the Somme. The author calculates that in this battle, taking conservative figures, the total combatants of the three armies were not less than three ...