... His father and four brothers all made the supreme sacrifice on the same day—July 1, 1916 —in the first advance at the battle of the Somme, when they cam;? under the murderous machinegun fire of the enemy. They were all in the 7th Queen’s R.W.S. Regiment ...

... It wa.- regarded as one tho verv first fighting divisions in France. It was the battle of the Somme, whore it shared the glories and losses of Bullecourt, In tho firut battle Cambrai it made a great name for itself. Last year it was specially mentioned ...

... JVofes. THE anniversary of the Battle of the Somme will always be kept with pride and sorrow among the more poignant memories of the war, not in Sheffield only but over a wide area of these islands. It was the greatest battle in which the British Army had ...

... country’s service if their lives had been spared. To-day was the anniversary of the fateful attack on Serre at the battle of the Somme, when 700 braA’e men of the Sheffield City Battalion went over the top and only 37 of them returned unwounded. Of the ...

... CHARGED AND DEMOBILISED SAILORS AND SOLDIERS. (SHEFFIELD FEDERATED AREA.) SECOND ANNUAL UNITED CHURCH PARADE who fell the Battle ol the Somme, 1916. Federation Members are requested parade in Queen Street bottom Paradise Street, at 2.15 p.m. prompt *he Service ...

... SOLDIERS. tLD FEDERATED AREA) SECOND ANNUAL UNITED CHURCH PARADE SUNDAY. JULY 6th. of above Federation. who fell the Battle of the Somme, 1916. Federation Members are requested to parade Queen Street, bottom Paradise Street, 2.15 p.m. prompt. The Service ...

... 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 ...

... in France, he received shrapnel wounds in both hands, and three times in one day he was buried. On the occasion the Battle of the Somme he had also been wounded in the stomach. Cross-examined, witness said that if there had been a scuffle or a quarrel ...

... under assumed name. was promoted on the field during the second battle of Ypres, went to Gallipoli in 1915, and returned tight m the battle of the Somme. He won the V.C. after the Cambrai battle in 1917 his skill and gallantry in covering the passage o a ...

... von Falkcnhayn 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 ...

... Munitions Inventions Department design for Tank which would 15 miles an hour. The Chairman : This happened after the battle of the Somme, and has no relation to this m* Mr. Bousfield further stated that in 1915 Lieut. Mac Fie found people who were ready ...

... Division he passed that of the 4th Corps, and from that to the command of the Army. In 1916 multiple four) fought the battle of the Somme, while on the (another multiple) August last year it was who led the attack when the l»ig British offensive opened. ...