... IN BATTLE OF SOMME. He served in the Yeomanry for 2i years and then gained a commission in the 31st Home Counties (T.) Brigade, R.F'.A. He took part in the battle of the Somme and the heavy fighting at Passe he nd ale and was sei. o ly wounded about the ...

... were dying all round her. Her eldest son died in Birmingham Hospital at the age of 21, from wounds received in the Battle of the Somme. ...

... Turkish Army in the days of the great Saladin and the Crusades had been handed down.™ Freyberg won his V.C. during the battle of the Somme when, although four times wounded, he led his men against the village of Beaucourt, capturing it with 500 Germans. The ...

... mean any harm. He Wit.; right. I could Quote dozens of confirmatory examples from my own experience. Remember the Battle of the Somme In 1916? The first idea was a surprise attack—by far the best form. Information continuously leaked to the Germans. ...

... Delay Means Death. The battle of the Somme caused 30.000 casualties on the first day. Of these approximately 9.000 would require transfusion, which would call for the forward I provision of 7.500 pints of blood. Clearly. it would be impossible to obtain ...

... nothing that has so captured the imagination of the man In the street than the description of the work, during the great battle of the Somme, of the new armoured cars a well-kept secret, and a tribute to the inventive genius of someone—fantastic monsters which ...

... Potter, Inglenook,' Fernhill Road, New Milton. Brig. Boughton came over here in 1915, and after going through the Battle of the Somme, was sent home to take his commission. His C.O. later asked him to enter the Indian Army with him, where he has rentaitsed ...

... Purfleet in 1915 and was transferred tik die 7th Battalion The Buns on embarkation to Prance in 1015. He was in the battle of the Somme at a place called Heile. was wounded. and died o: wounds in 1916. Infortnatton is required as to what hospital he taken ...

... to the rank of major. Five times he was mentioned in dispatches and twice wounded. The official history of the 1916 Battle of the Somme states that Major Powell crept before dawn to a shell hole in close proximity to the German wire, where he lay for the ...

... F. A. QUICK Manager of the Metropolitan Police central canteen committee for 20 years, after being wounded in the Battle of the Somme in the last war, and recently an employee of Vickers-Armstrong. Ltd., Mr. Frederick Alexander Quick, second of the nine ...

... of Frederick Hogben, 2ud Lient., 3rd Bn, ‘ South Staffordshire Regt., killed in action near Le Transloy, during the Battle of the Somme, on October 23rd, 1916. Aged 22 years. “These are they which eame out of great tribulation.” —M. 874 Langley.—ln loving ...

... which had been built up by his fa,her several years previously. During World War I, he was severely wounded in the Battle of the Somme when serving in the Suffolk Regiment, having attained the rank of sergeant, and winning the MM. In the second World ...