... 325 days. Enlisted May 12, t9ts, promoted to Corporal June 24, and proceeded to France, fought at the Somme, Vimy Ridge, and other battles. At the battle of Butte de Warrencourt he was so badly wounded that amputation of the left arm became necessary, was ...

... saying am well.' That was Just three weeks from the date that he arrived the Base from leave. He went all through the battle of the Somme. He is the youngest of four brothers serving. His brother, Lieut. Humphreys, left for France on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs ...

... Military Medal for ltr leading his platoon in an attack Ixo enemy in the autumn of last year. He 'fid °unded in the battle of the Somme in Before enlisting Lance-Corporal was an apprentice fitter in the Looofv lVe Department of the Caledonian Railway and ...

... thfe Germans, now that they are on the offensive, are very fairly consistent in their treatment of units. During the battle of the Somme in many cases divisions were allowed to bleed to death. We know that several lost 8000 men —their total complement— ...

... peve into which the guile of the German delude us all to our undoing. THE OT D FRONT LINE. Or the Beginning of the Battle of the Somme By John Masetield. Autoor of et,7. Rs 2-03. Di.DUCTIONS FROM THE WORLD WAR By Ligt.r.-Gisc. Bam Vus. aerraa-Lokixesovat ...

... posted mimaing, and believed killed, since 28th April. Private Gibb went to France in 1915, and, was wounded at the battle of the Somme. He returned to France on 2nd April last. He emigrated to Canada seven years ago, prior to which he was working on the ...

... proceeded to England and obtained oxrnnission in the Royal Field Artillery. He slightly wounded (shell shock) at the Battle p. the Somme, and again severely at His brother, 2nd Lieut. Cowan Annprong, Royal Flying Corps, served for short , ,Ue the South ...

... April. He joined H.C.B. at the outbreak of war, and was Mterwards transferred to the Warwickshires. e wounded in the battle of the Somme, 1916, and was again transferred to the , Watch, with which he had eleven months’ ard fighting. He was engaged in the ...

... much truth in the jest, for the particular ma chines which gave us such marked superiority over the Germans during the Battle of the Somme in the autumn of 1916 actually made their first appearance as experimental samples in the summer of 1915, and were not ...

... 6 railwa ys at Metz which were 0n '' 'iesday night doubtless play a v.,th ,' n Ludendorfi's plan of campaign. great battle of the Somme, s olrilll enced on March 21 ? the Ger- : ' one genuine surprise on the v wester ° front. It was that Was really responsible ...

... MORE OPEN WARFARE, One of the correspondents at the British front writes :—The second battle of the Somme is lAng f.rught by armies in the ()pen. Along the fl 'ming front, from the wildecness &blot Bapsume across the dead country convulsed by nearly three ...

... great divisions of what was in reality one attack, will probably be known, in the future, as the second battle of the Somme and the fourth battle of Ypres In holding up this attack, which had been planned in what the German High Command calculated to ...