... British advance immediately south of the Somme. At the beginning of the Sonune battle the French line ran from about Maricourt and crossed the Somme at Friss. We arc approaching this line so that south of the Somme we are just a little behind where we were ...

... Ancre has the effect of turning by the north all the old Somme battlefield, and, as was hoped, we are winning the third battle of the Somme without fighting over the old ground. The key to the Somme battlefield is north of the Ancre, not south, and it is ...

... 4th (Territorial) Battalion bad sailed to Suvla Bay, and at the Battle of Gaga many of men laid down their lives. Their Pioneer Battalion had done magnificently, and in the Battle of the Somme the 6th Battalion had heroically held out against superior forces ...

... the disputed area. At several points we are once more across the t front line which the Germans held before the 1916 battle of the Somme. The enemy apparently is trying to make a stand here and there in the three-year.old trenches, and our men have to negotiate ...

... under your command, their warmest congratulations on the great triumph achieved by the Allied arms in this the third battle of the Somme. . . . . . The British Empire sends its heartfelt thanks to you and your most gallant troops. 7 ...