... The Battle of the Somme To-Day's Anniversary Fourteen years have passed since the dawn of a particular July 1 heralded the breaking of a hot and cloudless morning. The past week had been dull and rainy, but this day the clouds that had swept the uplands ...

... increased selfrespect. Infested by Rats TX7HEN the battle of the Somme opened, we were still among the reed-reflecting waters and poppied fields of Givenchy. We knew we should soon be going down to the battle. There were the usual symptoms of excitement, premature ...

... at Edinburgh Academy, Mr Ross was the son of Captain Peter Ross, an Edinburgh school teacher, who was killed at th«e Battle of the Somme. The death of another volunteer fighting for the Spanish Government announced yesterday. He was Peter Robert Roy Alexander ...

... them a bequest of £20,000. Major Stocks was one of the original members of the Kirkcaldy company. He was killed at the battle of the Somme on Ist July 1916. On each anniversary the members and ex-members of the company parade at the War Memorial to take part ...

... Stratford He served in the k. Scots Fusiliers, and was twice wounded, first at Ypres and subsequently at Peronne, in the battle of the Somme. He afterwards served with the Cyclist Corps of the 15th Division. He holds the Mons Star, the Military Medal, the D ...

... in the £. You can make claim for repayment any time by showing receipts. Date. —Tanks were first used the war at the battle of the Somme on 15th September, 1916. Gib.—Gibraltar is 2| miles in length and of mile in breadth, and 1396 feet high at its greatest ...

... not take place. Mr Desmond Carew's father, the late Major Richard Carow, of Tallv-Ho Dublin was killed serving the 'battle of the Somme. Lady Cleveland and her daughter were out motoring yesterday, but confirmation of the cancelled wedding was given -« ...

... of the club paraded at the memorial. Major H. L. Stocks, the first captain of the company, was killed at the first battle of the Somme on Ist July 1916. He left £25.000 and the Victoria Hall, the compari) headquarters, to the 8.8. movement in Kirkcaldy ...

... Wilson, designer of the first tanks, and Captain W. J. Wakley, who took the tanks to France and lost leg in the fi tank battle on the Somme. Passengers at Presto Station were surprised to see the strange, almost silent, thost train running alongside the Royal ...

... Scottish troops in general and the men of the Black Watch, sons Angus, Perth, and Fife in particular stood out in the battle of the Somme. Mention Thiepval to any man of the 4/sth, 6th, or 7th Battalions. The Largest Memorial. Thiepval saw fighting that ...

... Australia in 1910. On the outbreak ot war he joined the forces, and gained a commission on the field for gallantry in the Battle of the Somme. In 1919 he received an appointment at Government House, Perth. One of his three sons, Mr Jack Alexander, was a member ...

... annual one, is in memory of the members of the Barnsley Pals Battalion the York and Lancaster Regiment who fell in the battle of the Somme. The invitation to attend was sent to them on behalf of the Mayor (Councillor IS. Sheerien), Socialist, who was a c ...