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... July, 1915, he passed into Sandhurst, and was granted a commission at the end.of the year. He took part in the first Battle of the Somme, where he was wounded. On recovery he rejoined his “home battalion, and was subsequently attached to the M.G.C., the ...
... little from shell-fire, and although the artificially flooded area south of the Scarpe and the southern fringe of the old Somme battle-ground are so bad as to be largely impas.sable, vet between these wide limits the going is still feasible, even though ...
... order to prepare for future inroads into the Hindenburg defensive quern. According to this journal, the methods of the battle of the Somme in 1916 may be effectively ►enewed, with the difference that infantry will not precede the march, but that the land ...
... Oldfield. and Mr arle, Miss Ann Welfitt, and Mr Has been on active Ceca G the siaff, and patrons of the vice in the third battle of the Somme. ov one of the front tanks. Sent to her with theatre. Mr. Tearle, in handing to Mr and Mes. Turner the.present, remarked ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 1914. obtaining the rank of sergeant. and : serving in Oallipoli. Egypt. and France, I 'gaining his commission after the Somme battles of 1916, being subsequently mitred to tbe Kensington Battalion, London Regiment. in December. 1916. Her has been twice ...
... us in prisoners. A long supplementary dispatch from General Headquarters received last night details the successful battles on the Somme which opened on August 8 last. The villages and positions taken by the different English, Scottish and' Welsh Divisions ...