... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...