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... EYE BETTER THAN EAR. Captain lan Fraser, chairman of St. Dunstan's, who was blinded at the battle of the Somme in 1616, states in the Wifeless World and Radio Review that when calculating the development of a news service by wireless telephony , one very ...
... on the Western front iu a battle which after a short preliminary struggle would be decided one way or the other in forty-eight hours. This plan attracted Mr. Lloyd George as offering an alternative to another battle of the Somme. Nivelle was invited to ...
... Warwickshire, who played for the Players in 1914 a tine bowler, indeed. like Booth, of Yorkshire, fell in the first battle -if the. Somme. . . . There is no reason to cry over English cri.•ket, or to run it down, or to soy that our cricketers do not play ...
... manufacturer in 1903. Nerved in Belgium. France, and North-West Fron. tier of India during the War; wounded at the battle of the Somme 1916, and in. valided home from India 191i1. Omitted Major Mb, and placed in Army Reserve 1921. A keen sportsman , and ...
... desperate coup►, which brought America into the war. Falkenhayn was responsible for planning the battle of Verdun. and he resigned in the middle of the battle of the Somme, because of the failure of his plans. Naturally, therefore, he is on the defensive. and ...
... triumphed over the shortcomings of French Intelligence and Ministerial interferettee. I About the long-drawn-out Battle of the Somme, and the scepticism and despondency which affected impatient and ambitious individuals at the base, the authors have ...
... and 1916. In the Battles of the Somme it was engaged at Flers-Courcelettewhere the Tanks made their first appearance--and on the Transloy Ridges in 1916. In 1917 it fought at Messines and Ypres, and played a magnificent part in the Battle of Cambrai by its ...
... justify himself by showing that the conduct of the war had been a mistake. The necessary theory was that the great battles on the Somme in 1916 had proved a costly failure. We know now, by the testimony of the German commanders, as we could only conjecture ...