... r Cottage, who was on his -motor cycle. A leg that was severely injured during his service with the Gordons at the Battle of the Somme was ag-ain badly hurt, and also a hand. ...

... Regiment, when over half the officers and men of the l/4th Battalion were wiped out in their tragic attack in the Battle of the Somme, the Princess Royal on Saturday unveiled a memorial at Halifax Drill Hall to the dead of the First and Second Fourth ...

... imperishable fame. In Palestine, they were the spearhead numerous gallant attacks, and in France and Belgium, from the 1916 battle of the Somme to the end of the war, they were in the thick of the conflict. ...

... General Berthelot was Chief of the French General Staff under Marshal Joffre. Ho commanded the French Fifth Army the Battle of the Somme where co-Operated with the British Army. Later that year, ho was sent on military mission to Rumania, where he reorganised ...

... Anderson served in the ranks in the last war and had the distinction of being commissioned in the field during the Battle of the Somme to a Regular battalion of The Gordon Highlanders. Baillie Anderson. ...

... TALLY HO V.C. WED EPIC OF SOMME BATTLE RECALLED Brigadier-General John Vaughan Campbell, the Tally-Ho V.C., of the Guards Club, formerly of Broom Hall, Oswestry, was married on Saturday at St .John's Church, Bournemouth, to Miss Margaret Emily Robina ...

... rose from the rank of captain to that of major-general during the war on the Western Front, has said that the first Battle of the Somme, which dragged on for five weary months, was lost by three minutes. That striking judgment is quoted the historian of ...

... Chamber of Commerce) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, being slightly wounded and awarded the Military Medal in the Battle of the Somme. He has, therefore, a thorough understanding of the problem of the ex-serviceman. In returning to Aberdeen after twentytwo ...

... but for those who might wish to compare Franco's offensive with some of the battles of the Great War, the following figures are interesting. During the Battle of the Somme the artillery loosed off on the average 271.000 shells daily; 3,258,000 shells ...

... Anderson served in the ranks in the last war and had the distinction of being commissioned in the field during the Battle of the Somme to a Regular battalion of The Gordon Highlanders. ...

... battalion was raised 1914, and served with it throughout the greatef part of the war. his Military Cross during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Lieut.-Colonel Grainger Stewart is a member of the Faculty of Advocates, and secretary of the Educational ...

... tramcar at Edinburgh just over twenty-two years ago. My father, a captain in a Scottish regiment, had been killed in the battle of the Somme. he said. My mother. in deep mourning, was in a tramcar with myself and a younger brother. At one stop an Admiral ...