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... under your command their warmest con-I gratulationa on the great triumph ach.eved 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.. The followmg telegrams have ...
... not brought home. In the meantime he was awarded the Military Medal, gaining the distinction for gallantry .at the battle of the Somme. Last October he was home. and took his commission, being gazetted to the Sherwood Foresters He went out to - France ...
... fighting, the French surmounted all the difficulties of the ground and took the Moat height. A COMPARISON. In the firer battle of the Somme, whieb lasted from July Ist, 1816, for four months. I we 44 square at territory, whereas 'in the four ending Sunder ...
... sorrowing father, mother, and family. WOODS.—In ever-loving memory of Gunner R. S. Woods, R.G.A., who was killed in the Battle of the Somme Aug. 30th, 19X6, in his 19th year. Days of sadness still come o’er ns. Tears of sorrow often flow; Memory keeps onr ...
... Haig continued urin the day. Our troops are now fighting Santerre, the which the French country over fought during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and of which every ruined villag eis familiar to many of the \ The line reached this afternoon runs. through ...
... his death arrived. One brother, Ralph, well known as an amateur forward of the Grimsby Town F.C. was killed in the Battle of the Somme; another, Sidmey, was wounded in the same fight, and is now discharged; while yet another, Albert, is a P.O. in the ...
... recent'fighting on the. British and French fronts in the Somme area with those achieved-in the first battle of the Somme. In the four months from July to 31 October, 1916, the British won sguare miles territory. In the present fight-' ing, between 21 August ...
... metal bands, which are attached to ihe wider of the cylinders, As an example of the value of pigeons in action, the battle of the Somme, in 1916, may be quoted. Between July lst and October Ist, about 4,500 operation messages were brought in by carrier ...
... for the wisdom it has shown in seein, at the Western front is the de. isive fi e cid. We may rejeice too that in tls battle of the Somme British Genc Is and British treops are wiping out the stain of the spring retreat, and are giving the at least as good ...
... Floor Beck FRANK FENTON TIC RTRANoMR.- Leicester Daily Post MONDAY. 'AUGUST 12. 1918. THE SOMME VICTORY. Marshall and Rose Superb Pianos. The third battle of the Somme, antler the direction of IrSeld4lass4l Sir Douglas liai s e. is deseknoing into a antics ...
... across the Somme to the vicinity of Albert, a continuous Latile front of a good fifty miles giving as the crow flies, The greater part of the line is in front of that occupied by the British and French at the opening of the first battle of the Somme on July ...