... 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 ...

... Sheffield University. Shortly afterwards the war broke out. he enlisied as • private soldier. and met his death at the Battle of the Somme. Two vc..iiroes of his poems were published and •ttracted some •ttentioa. This Life of fur Robert Moray is the result ...

... 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 ...

... France, and was awarded the Military Medal for conspicuous bravery in carrying bombs across No Man s Land during the battle of the Somme. was wounded on that occasion, and shortly afterwards nearly in the same vicinity. He was sent to hospital in England ...

... preparations for the great offensive operations known in British military history for all time as the Battle of the Somme.” According to the battle scheme, drawn up by the High Command. the Division was to attack astride the Ancre. The action on the north ...

... the* , Education Committee's offices, where lie was a junior clerk, tojoin the Army in 1918. He went through the last Battle of. the Somme and was badly gassed. He received treatment in no less than eleven hospitals, and the position at the Northampton Workhouse ...

... were at the battle of be 25th- 2 8th August. They formed the left flank of the Brit lift army, and greatly distinguished themselves in the rearguard action. fhe battalion took part in the advance to the crossing of the Marne, and in the battle ot the Aisne ...

... advance to the crossing of the Marne and in the battle of the Aisne. Next year they were engaged at Festubert, where they lost 19 officers and over 650 other ranks. 1916 they fought at the battle of the Somme. Eventually the 2nd Inniskillings became part ...

... outbreak of war, when as an old soldier he joined tip again. After considerable active service, including the first battle of the Somme, he was invalided out in 1917. In January, 1919, be left the town upon medical advice and Ins seat thus became vacant ...

... left the Education Committee’s offices, where he was a junior clerk, to join Army in 1918. lie went through the ast Battle of the Somme and was badly gassed. He received treatment in no less than eleven hospitals, and the position at the Northampton Workhouse ...

... 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 ...

... period of illness necessitated a stay in a Marseilles hospital, but he was able to rejoin his comrades on the eve of the Battle of the Somme. In company with so many glorious souls he laid down his life on that fatal July first, 191 b, in the redoubtable Scrre ...