... THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE BATTLE OF TIIE SOMME. TO-MORROW (SUNDAY). NATIONAL FEDERATION of oux-i-ut_ncEi!,N_ F- . • And DEMOBILWq SOLDIERS IN HE /.74L1), -- 11 - C, T,:it S.U. S :FANIFORTH ROAD RECREATION GROUND al 10 a.m. and then MARCH to the ...

... battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment. He was wounded in France in April, 1916, and again on Ist July, 1916, in the battle of the Somme. It is now reported that Captain Woodhouse led a raiding party into the German trenches on sth June, but failed to return ...

... SOMME BATTLE. Regarding reference in Current Topics to the City* , liattalion; - 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says 'only the Colonel 'arid six orderlies of the 12th Y. and L. could•be mustered next morning. What about the privateA? - I believe there were ...

... latter school won a scholarship for Oxford (New College). Ho joined in January, 1915, the 0.T.C., and was wounded in the battle of the Somme in 1916. His last lea e was in March of this year, on the death of his father. He was a grandson of Mr. Fothergill Watson ...

... SOMME ANNIVERSARY, The anniversary of the Battle of the Somme is again to be marked at Sheffield Cathedral by a series of special memorial services. To-morrow morning a Parade Service will be held, when the 17th, and 18th West Riding Volunteers will be ...

... the late Rev. George Shaw. Deceased enlisted in a local battalion up I, ti, ~,itbreak of war. He was wounded in the Battle of the Somme, and subsequently given a commission in the Lincolns. He was killed by a direct hit from a shell which did not explode ...

... collaboration of the British air force in the great battle says : There is a spirit of emulation among the Allies to take part in battles in which they are not directly engaged. Durino- the battles in Picardy General Pershing placed under the orders ...

... conies to be made When Germany is beaten• she should be made to pay! The Somme Battle. In the May issue of the Strand, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle deals with the battle of the Somme in July, 1916. Here is one paragraph that will have a tragic as well as a ...

... Next Monday will be the second anniversary of the first great battle of the war in which all Sheffield units in the Army played an important part. At the opening of the Battle of the Somme, Artillery, Engineers, Hallamshires, City Battalion, and the men ...

... ANNIVERSARY OF THE SOMME. Sheffield is to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of the Somme--that memorable attack or the Ist July, 1916, when the men of a local battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment went over the top. Many of our sons gave ...