... and was for a year and tialf in France and through the battle of the Somme with the Ulster Division. Having obtained his oommiasion, was attached to the Irish Division, and was through the battle of Cambrai. Subsequently he volunteered for the Royal Air ...

... British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1916” (London; Hodder & Stoughton; net). It is almost entirely taken up with the battle of the Somme and its pendant the Ancre operations. The special feature this work, as have noticed in reviewing the earlier volumes ...

... Dovle’s history of the war is resumed with the first connected and detailed account of the battle 01 the Somme in 1916, which he describes as the greatest one-day battle ever known in. history.’* have already quoted fine description of the glorious gallantry ...

... sjecond-Lleutenant. 7th Koval Dublin Fusiliers (attached 2nd Royal Irish Rlfles . Killed action, 9th October, 1916. the Battle of the Somme, fna. Interred near Poeteres. France. Aged 22 years. Faithful unto death.’ The unveiling ceremony was performed the ...