... served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers during the last war. Mr Dorward served in the Royal Scots, and was wounded in the Battle of the Somme. He is an air raid warden, and will be a member of the Tribunal at the hearing of Civil Defence appeals. = There will ...

... Pages) and the best and fastest fighters (Sopwith Camels and 13-Strutters), which it was able to lend to the Army at the Battle of the Somme and sustain the morale of the R.F.C. ...

... killed in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, when he was 31 years of age. His rhapsody, written in 1913, and the many fine songs to his credit, stamyed Butterworth as a creative artiste of outstanding merit, and his death on the field of battle was a blow ...

... torpedoed by a U-boat , had been Unionist M . P . for the Wrekin Division of Shropshire since 1931 . He fought in the Battle of the Somme , served on the staff ' of the 3 rd and 4 th Armies in the Great War , and attained the rank of Major . Alter the war ...

... Army So Far Intact But then our Army had suffered huge losses. During the first week of the Battle of the Somme in July-1916 we lost 200,000 men killed and wounded, and by the Armistice we had lost about a million dead, which included almost all the old ...

... last war , having learned to fly at Brooklands , and won the D . S . O . for leading his fighter squadron into the Battle of the Somme . Last year he was in a Sunderland hit by j \ ak during an attack on a U-boat . The first U-boat sunk by an Azores-based ...

... 'Planes Shot Down on Wednesday The following communique was issued bj the French Air Ministry yesterday : — When the Battle of the Somme began yesterday , our attacking squadrons went into action in the small hours and did not cease to harass enemy marching ...

... material to conduct an offensive campaign are unpromising. “The air campaign in the Ruhr is not unlike the Battle of the Somme in th. last war. On the Somme we aimed at exhausting by attrition the man-power of the German armies—in the Ruhr the aim is exhaustion ...

... Butterworth’s rhapsody, “A Shropshire Lad,” was another reminder of the waste of world wars —he was killed in the Battle of the Somme. Kathleen Long gave a fine musicianly performance in the Schumann Pianoforte Concerto; Mendelssohn’s *ltalian’ Symphony ...

... advanced that the German losses sustained in the pbattle were less than those in the battle of the Somme in 1915. This statement is remarkable, because the Somme battle went on for more than five months. Its cost to the Germans in dead and wounded was more ...

... Stirling . Pipe-Major Aitken took part in the operations at Suakin , 1884 , the Battle of Telel-Kebir . the Battle of El-Teb-Tamari , the operations of the Nile , 1884-5 , and the Battle of Kirbekan . He went to Stirling Castle in 1886 to be pipe-major to the ...

... fi concluded with casualties whic were small compared with those suffered in the last war. “On the first day of the Battle of the Somme the British Army sustained 60,000 casualties, so we can imagine what it would have cost the Allies to force the Axis ...