... for bravery and good work in the field. He has been on active service since September, 1914, and was wounded at the Battle of the Somme. The death occurred on Saturday of Wm. Haire (40), pipe fitter’s lahourer, of 2, Edgecumbe- He went out to work yesterday ...

... They knew what winter meant in waterlogged trenches St. Eloi and the bluff vp there be yond Ypres, and in the first battles of the Somme they lay outside Longueval and Bazintin under the storms fire, but drove the enemy down to Guillemont and made him ...