... the age, experience and training of the i partcular bird. _ . . As an example of the value of pigeons in action the Battle of the Somme in may be quoted. Between July lit and October let about 4,500 operation messages were brought in by carrier pigeons ...

... 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 ...