... Westminster on Ada Burke (47), widow, of Mercer-st., Long Acre, who died suddenly, that her only son was killed in the Battle of the Somme 2 years ago, when he won the Military Medal, and that she had never held her Lead up since the bereavement. ...

... CHAPLAIN Drawn by ;VISITING HIS “PARISH.” LIBERATED BY THE GREAT ADVANCE ON THE SOMME: ,hmgS • aU 11,13 fiehfnc, T.ritts Mr. H. Perry Robinson, account of the new Battle of the Somme, is the way it thrills one with memories of ~16. W. come mto possessmn and ...

... regarded as of the highest importance. During the first battle of the Somme last year the enemy held us up at this point and caused us heavy casualties. Sailly-Saillisel is the highest ground on the Somme, and commands the valley of the Tortille river, along ...

... But what is moat wonderful is so many names of places taken with the greatest pains and bloodshed 2 yearee since in battles about the Somme, such as Thiepval, Contalmaison, Grandcourt, and doocow Farm; but now we do leap over them in a bound. I with Mr. ...