... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 hack areas making roads and railways in preparation for the big offensive. The Somme, 1916. Then followed the misfortunes and disasters of the Battle of the Somme, with its heavy toll the battalion s effectives. On July Ist, 1916 they were in support ...

... was attached to the Bth Division. The First took part in the battle of Neuve Chapelle, fighting through the village and suffering heavy casualties. Though not actually taking part in the battle of Loos, they attacked on the flank, including the storming ...

... intermission r t!' weeks before the battle. However, on Serre did not succeed, the obtained in other parte of the area v, l portant that it was only a few wee* Gormans were tactically compelled e 1 The battle of the Somme came l November 18. In this, the ...

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

... 'eft , refitt and then the whole J or the south, where it wag engaged iq 5 preparing for the attack ,-A e Battle of the Somme. a ttle of the Somme. TN V ’ ' on P’ere placed in reserve to V ...

... Gommercourt Wood on the left of the Somme, and though they took part m the famous battle of the Somme their casualties were slight. They had a march five miles ‘‘rest’ camp, and on April 19th they returned to the battle front, and the Loos sector they saw ...

... relief of side-slipping north of Hebuterne, although no picnic, was appreciated. Beaumont Hamel and Serre ended the battles of the Somme, and 1916 passed out with normal activity on all parts of the front. At the end of November the (North Midland) Division ...

... regiment, which commanded by Incut.-General Sir Claud Jacob, K.C.8., remaining with that corps during the long and fierce battles on the Somme and Ancre until October, 1917. During those 18 terrible month# there was no opportunity for cavalry work, but the ...