... ever been in the War? Moylan: Yes, 1 was at the front until I was taken prisoner. Where did you win the `'.C.?—At the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Alderman White: It is extraordinary. There is no record of it., V.C.'s are not given away with a pound of tea ...

... Wounded in the Somme Captain Parish served in the Great War in the artillery, and was wounded in the first battle of the Somme. He recovered, however, and was subsequently appointed Reconnaissance Officer of the 7th Corps Heavy Artillery, with whom again ...

... round the Ypres salient. including the first gas attack of the Germans, and suffered heavily. BATTLE OF THE SOMME The next great fighting was the battle of the Somme, in which the Ist Hants, with other troops, were given the task of forcing B-antoont Hamel ...

... the 41st Division, wrote I wish to express my greatest admiration for the work done by the 41st Division during the battle of the Somme and to congratulate all ranks on the brilliant manner in which they captured the village of Fiera on September 15. The ...

... France, and was wounded at the battle of Neuve Chapelle. In 1915 be was given command of a brigade in the Ypres salient, and a year later was placed in command of the 34th Division. He took part in the battle of the Somme, helped to oppose the German advance ...

... new armies. By this time he had been promoted to the rank of major. After training the battery they took part in the battle of the Somme. later Col. Barrel) was invalided home. and then followed a period as Chief Instructor of Gunnery at Preesheath in ...

... tutor at the Fairholme Collegiate School, Hunstanton, and at Cowplain. HAYLING MAN'S DEATH On 19th Anniversary of Battle In a battle on the Somme 19 years ago, Richard Harold Cole, then a private in the 15th Hants Regiment, was bhot in the back. Ever since ...

... He saw service in the Great War. In 1915 he joined the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders. and took part in the first battle of the Somme, winning his commission on the field. He was then drafted to the Ist Worvesters, and afterwards went to India, where ...

... DESPERATE FIGHTING In the sxond battle of the Somme, 1918, the Ist Hants were involved in the serious fighting at the visage of Roeux, ' and withstood all attempts of the enemy to drive them back. They were also in the desperate fighting on the Lys, when ...

... the cost of old and tried friendships. In our official history of the War it is recorded that on the first day of the Battle of the Somme opposite Moontauban, to the south of where we now stand, the lines of the French and British armies joined and the ...

... was a sad day when their eldest son contracted lung trouble and died in 1915. Still more sad was the death, in the battle of the Somme in 1916, of one of the five sons who volunteered for the Forces in the dark times of war. These bereavements hare left ...

... a short period of trench warfare it entered into its first serious battle on the Somme in September of that year. The Hampshire battalion was concerned in the Battle of Flera. a battle which is notable as the first occasion on which tanks were used. The ...