... e strategic retreat was a surprise. - The weather favoured the secrecy of the withdrawl, which was a result of the Battle of the Somme, and a precaution against an Allied offensive. The enemy withdrew hoping to return again, and, indeed, e did return ...

... BACK TO THE OLD LINE. VIOLENT BATTLE IN FORMER SOMME DEFENCES. BRITISH CLEARING THE GERMANS FROM HAVRINCOURT WOOD. The Allied troops continue to make satis-' factory progress. The British have gained possession of practically the whole of Havrincourt ...

... lor* fiotlantial war bonus. She stated that her husband been unable work for six months, one her sww was killed the battle of tho Somme, while ® ,n J[ son was seriously wounded that bad eye. and tho other was affected. The pensions anti' not give her ...

... importreport on the battle-front south of the river SCARPE. the LYS front our patrols have made slight progress north-east 1 CHAPELLE and west of ARMENTIERES. torniy weather continues. NIGHT OFFICIAL. Paris, Tuesday. between tlie SOMME and the OISE out troops ...

... supreme com!nand have been gained,not by frontal attacks and patient methods such as those which characterised the battle of the Somme, but by dashing and brilliant strategical strokes of which the ultimate results have been vastly more important than ...

... Mounted Rifles, late ol Toronto and Sheffield, was killed doing his best the morning of September Xsth, 1916, in the Battle of the Somme; aged years. —Deeply mourned Mother, Father, Brothers, and Auntie. SLADE.—In proud and loring memory Lieut. Robert Gordon ...

... to Vancouver in 1909. With the Canadians, Lieut. Harvie had been through numerous engagements, including the first battle of the Somme. At the end of July of this year the gallant young officer was slightly .gassed (his first casualty), and left the hospital ...

... 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 a s to be largely impassable, yet between these wide limits, going is feasible, even though uncomfortably ...

... north of the Somme, and captured y- In five days sever© fighting the Division tured many prisoners and guns, and performed vm gallant services the left flank our attack . of the Somme. On the August again -i tacked in the sector north of the Somme, and on* ...

... —ln loving memory of dear hnsband, Private Alex. Gregory. K-O.V.L.L, presumed killed September loth. 1916. in the battle of the Somme. Until the day breaks. —From his loving Wifa GREEN.—In loving memory our dear wife mother, Dorothea Eyre, who died Sept ...

... volunteered with the Ulster Division for active service. He took nart in the battle of the Somme in the year *916 in w'hich the Ulster Division was engaged, and came through the many battles unhurt. Whilst with the Ulster Division he was serving an officer. Some ...

... 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 ...