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... France. - His father and four brothers were all hilled on the same day—July 15th, 1916—in the first advance at the battle of the Somme. The eldest son was only twenty-two. The youth's three sisters were all killed in air raids, while his mother was the ...
... father and four brothera all made the supreme sacrifice on the same day--Jlnly 1. 1916 in the first advance at the battle of the somme, when they came under the murderous machinegun fire of the enemy. They were all in the 7th Queen’s R.W.S. Regiment, ...
... Private Burgess was drafted to France in 1916, and took part in the battle of the Somme angd also the Ancre. He contracted trench fever, after his re. covery from which be took part in the battle around Vimy Ridge, where he was wounded in one of his hands, Deing ...
... itable w«\ T ind hardly matter We now z‘lpproach i o niidence the fair hopes built on the military position after the Battle of the Somme. Unrestricted submarine warfare, while biinging®®u an ulthmately powerful Allv, produced also an minediate situnation ...
... the Boer War He was promoted on the field during the second battle of Ypres went to Gallipoli in 1915 and returned to fight in the battle of the Somme He won the VC after the Cambrai battle in 1917 by his skill and gallantry in covering the passage of ...
... mill-pond about two miles from his home JIow the boy got into the -water is a mystery Bis father was killed at the first battle of the Somme OBAN — Oban War Memorial Committee proposes to erect a memorial ou the Pulpit Hill in th form of an obelisk They also ...
... Increase ot 91 and an increase -of 46 a were GREAT HOPES ROM PROPOSALS 1 sa I have talked with all the British the Battle of the Somme The most im-j crowing here to consult Mr Barnes Germans and the liberation of Sir Malcolm Delevingne in reference toharge ...
... on 28th November, 1915. After that the histaor{ of the Gordons would be the story of the war. It was not until the battle of the Somme—where so many young Shetlanders fell—that Sergt.-Major Gray had {!il first real cx]}n]eriencc of flf:ating on a grand ...