... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... organised the Sheffield branch of the Comrades the Great War and is in special 0 memoration of “Comrades” killed in in the battle of the Somme on that First of July, 1(516, which plunged Sheffield families into mourning, special form of service has been prepa ...