... ring, which sometimes came on the very stroke. He used to reproach me for refusing to write with enthusiasm about the battle of the Somme, of which he had gained an exaggerated conception during one of his visits to the front. It took the long agony of ...

... s have commenced, but delay is being caused (by the bad weather. To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the opening battle of the Somme, the 'Singapore Branch of the Ex-Services Association held a successful dinner and smoking concert, at which the Ge ...

... Kilmarnock for the last seven years. He was ',president of the Oxford Union. During the war, he served throughout the battle of the Somme with the Royal Marine Artillery, and was also Parliamentary private secretary to Sir John Simon when he was at the Home ...

... place, t • bluff the ee • '• rtto belief Of artillery steength Oleic welded, on thu'ugh the stiuggle the l y res th e battles Of the Somme, the retreat and final march to Mowry. As h aw progremes through the book, one to ',lncome one of the battery. esperien ...

... in France, The New Zealanders in France, by Colonel H. Stewart (Whitcomb and Tombs), where it took part in the great battles of the Somme, Messines, Ypres, and the German offensive of 1918. In their first arrival in France the New Zealanders were struck ...