... was a well-known member of the London Stock Exchange and a Freeman of the City of London), was killed at the first battle of the Somme in 1916 whilst leading his regiment, the 6th Roval Berkshire, in which he wias a captain. Mrs. Litten’s daughters have ...

... ing narrates the events connected with the retreat from Mauberge, the preparations of the R.F.C. for the battle of the Somme, leading up to the battles of Arras, Messines, Passchendaele and Cambrai, the bombing of Germany by the Independent Air Force, and ...

... a commission in the Durham Light Infantry, took part in a great many engagements, and was ultimately wounded at the Battle of the Somme and sent home. Afterwards he joined the R.A.F., and undertook what was perhaps the most perilous task of the war—the ...