... The Battle of the Somme. On zero day the Sheffield batteries formed the Field Artillery in support of the 36th (Ulster Division). Left and right of them, the attacking divisions were held up. suffering huge losses. The Ulsters, however, got on well, ...

... ions, the report says, have taken into account not merely the precise class of tanks which weut into action at the battle of the Somme, but also any modified or improved classes of tanks which mav fairlv be considered to result from the normal development ...

... to 1916, referring to a personal queetion, said: was charged with the wanton waste of men entrusted command at the Battle of the Somme. I repudiate that charge with indignation. The measures taken which led this loss were either in opposition to repr ...

... After serving in Egypt and France Uie was wounded on the City Battalion’s great 'day, July Ist, 1916, in the first battle of the Somme. Since then he has been attached to the srd York and Lancaster Regiment. He is the •on of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ingold ...

... Lieutenant in March, 1915, and two months later became Captain and Adjutant. In 1916 went to France and took part in the Battle of the Somme, being with the same division the Sheffield City Battalion. Promoted major July. 1916, he was afterwards transferred ...

... things which ail politicians, though not the public, knew in that year of tra.gic disappointments. When 1917 dawns, the battle of the Somme, in which the British reported 420,000 casualties and the French about half that number, while the Germans suffered ...

... system is ceasirig to carry on its functions properly. The ,breakdown, indeed, is as had as that in 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, ,which Sir Eric Geddes was sent to France to remedy. We have stretched our resources to the limit to help the French ...

... alternately in and out of the line, until September 24th. They were thus engaged in the battle of the Somme for just under three months, the 49th Division being in this battle longer than other division and earning the warmest praise of Sir Douglas Haig, who ...

... soaring above the German lines in his seventeenth year. In 1916 he was decorated for brilliant patrol work during the battle of the Somme. The next year he returned to France with the squadron of Captain Ball, V.C., and accounted for many enemy machines ...

... the world. Perhaps no films have everywhere created a greater sensation. Until he took ” the opening, attack at the Battle of the Somme from just in front of Beaumont Hamel, and his pictures were shown in this country, there was the haziest possible idea ...

... von Falkenhayn describes at length the violence and terribly costly character of the struggle for this fortress. The battle of the Somme and the unprecedented scale on which artillery ammunition and men were used are also dealt with. The writer criticises ...

... contracting' frostbite, died from its effects. Lieut. Petrie lived at 21, Trafalgar Road. Penaleton. Ho was wounded in the battle of the Somme, and after his return to England was attached to the 3rd Battalion Manchester Regiment•. He was a bright, keen young ...