... enrolled. The battalion landed in France on Bth January, 1916, and their first important engagement was at the great Battle of the Somme in July of that year, when they took a leading part in the attack, and so impetuous was their valour that they outstripped ...

... God was sinful men and women. My regiment. the Tyneside Scottish, went over the top one bright summer morning in the Battle of the Somme. We took 828 men and 28 officers over the top, and left dead on the field 714 men and 23 officers, and there crawled ...

... Subsequent engagements taken part in by tho b , attalioii included the great and successful Battle of Arras , the Battle , of Hargincourt , and the Battle of Lja , whore they fougfit' a series of . desperate rearguard actions at the- time that-Sir Douglas ...

... the battlefield. My regiment, he says. The Tyneside Scottish, went over the top one bright summer morning in the Battle of the Somme. We took men and officers over the top, and we left dead and wounded on the field 711 men and 23 officers, and there ...