... July, 1915, he passed into bandhurst, and was granted commission in the following December. took part in the first Battle of the Somme in July, 1916, when he was wounded. On recovery he rejoined his home battalion, and was subsequently attached to the ...

... fighting, including the battle Loos, he was given a commission the field for general good work, and became 'attached to the Ist Warwicks. With that regiment he took part in many hard struggles up to and including the battle of the Somme of the Ist July, 1916 ...

... any l ar ge proportion of troops which could be counted on to fight with the stubbornness which they showed in the battle of the Somme. We have every ground for confidence that we could in due time go through any defence which Ithe enemy erects, and it ...

... 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 ...

... march from Kabul to Kandahar and the battle of Sept. 1, being mentioned in despatches and promoted to Brevet Major. In 1882 he served with the Indian contingent in the Egyptian Expedition, and was present at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir. During the Burma ...

... on '1914-1918—A Contrast. Maseliekl lectured to 25.000 American soldiers on the last four day. of the week on The Battle of the Somme and After. Things like this should have been done siz months ago. The definite statement of the Prime Minister that ...

... armies on the :front) commanded by an artillery officer. This was General Sir Henry Home, who two years ago, in the battle of the Somme, introduced :the creeping barrage. But the heaviest burden fell, as always, on !the infantry ; and nobly did they ...

... similar plight if Germany had her way. Such was the plight of the Children of invaded France from August 1914 until the -battle of the Somme in 1911; rescued a tew of these animated little skeletons, living like gnomes underground. and few with either lungs ...

... for France with a draft. to bring the 1 / 1 4th up to its full complement. lie served from the hatt!e of Loos to the battle of the Somme, subsequently returning to England to take up a emumission. He was gazetted to the Flying Corps some twelve months ago ...

... commission. He was in the H.F.A., in which he rose to the rank of Corporal. He took part in many big battles, including the second battle of Ypres, Somme. and Cam. brai, and he was twice wounded and once gassed. hat had recovered from thesis when he was ...

... Regiment, but was soon afterwards appointed to command a 'battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment. He was wounded at the battle of the Somme in 1916, and again this year. He was awarded the D.S.O. last year. The gunners have lost Lieut.-Colonel P. P. Budge ...

... 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. ...