... very severe. It is interesting compare the results the recent the British and French fronts in the Somme area with those achieved lho first battle the Somme. From July Ito October 31. i 19115, that is to say. period of four months, the British won square ...

... Haig's dispatch on Tuesday for their bravery in re-capturing High Wood, ground which was first taken by them in the battle of the Somme in July, 1916, but lost in the subsequent retreat. One can imagine with what 7est the gallant men would enter in the ...

... with a shattered wheel out into No Man's Land and holding up the Germans whilst our other guns got away during the battle of the Somme. Proceeding, Mr. Games said Gunner Harris had always shown that he knew what his duty was. The primary thing was that ...

... stationed in a smashed. up •illage In front of the moo of Albert, wmting the big attach of July Ist, now known as the Battle of the Somme. My duties were to convey the wounded from our aid past to ear hospital • fen miles away, and to go as hit as a car ...

... of Mozambique, and i . j.,,, „ .‘f, ‘ the Inu ach near Namirrnv large hospital I I laila ...

... past tbroirith—rhereful one. were frofiliklen. Engliah prisoners were sent to It. front. Alany eaniured during the battle on the Somme were kept working !whimd the line. for 12 weeks. One prionter is to' have mnved in Germany 12 month, after esp. toeing ...

... He pluckily joined up some two and a half years ago, and landed in France on June Ist, 1917, and took part in the battles of the Somme' Ypres, Armentiers, Plocgstreet, and several smaller engagements. In the course of a converstaion our representative ...