... PRISONERS’ MORALE EXCELLENT Pte. Hogg revealed that he was captured during the battle in the Somme area. He was then marched, along with the other prisoners, through Belgium, Holland, Germany and into Poland. When asK,efi if he had had an opportunity ...

... Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers from the outset of the last war, and was severly wounded and captured during the first battle of he Somme in 1916. He returned the colours at the outbreak of the present hostilities, and served with the rank of captain in ...

... A. and S.H., who has been a prisoner of war sipce Dunkirk. By a remarkable coincidence, deceased won his D.C.M. the Battle of the Somme in 1916 at the same time as his nephew, Donald Aitken, gained the Military Medal. Donald, whose father resided at Whins ...

... that the • ot lsable lent P sion for a soldier in 1914 was £2 per week. I was drawo a disablement pension after the Battle of the Somme at the backend ot 1916. and the amount I received was 20s. In the 1919 Royal Warrant, provision was made for an increased ...

... and S.H., who has been a prisoner of war since Dunkirk. By a remarkable coincidence, deceased won his D.C.M. at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 at the same time as his nephew, Donald Aitken, gained 'the Military Medal. Donald, whose father resided at Whins ...

... Balmorals now covers two wars. For the first performance given by them took place in France on Bth August, during the battle of the Somme. The stage, like so many which the concert party of the Highland Division has had to encounter, was an improvised one—the ...

... Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers from the outset of the last war, and was severly wounded and captured during the first battle of the Somme in 1916, He returned to the colours at the outbreak of the present hostilities, and served with the rank of captain ...

... family, Cromwell House, Cambusbarron. McLAREN. —In loving memory of my dear son, and our dear brother, Walter, died at Battle of the Somme, 29th October, 1916; also my dear daughter, and our dear sister, Christina, died 13th December, 1924; also my dear husband ...

... Future?” we in Scotland have to ask, when so much is talked about Dunkirk, what of the Somme? In a letter to a Scotsman in the Argentine I said that the battle of the Somme was the greatest disaster Scotland since Flodden. My letter was returned to me by the ...

... Pte. Gordon Black, The Battle of the Somme, 1940, saw many of our gallant lads fall into German hands as prisoners war. Among them was Pte. Gordon Black. A. & S.H.. youngest son of Mrs Black. Balkerach Street, Doune. Gordon returned home last week. During ...

... family, 2 Morris Terrace, Stirling. McLAREN.—In loving memory of my dear son, and our dear brother, Walter, died at Battle of the Somme, 29th October, 1916; also my dear daughter, and our dear sister, Christina, died 13th December, 1924; also my dear husband ...

... comment —“W9 could do with more of them.” On« of them, James Waters, of Barr* head, lost his right leg in the lastwar Battle of the Somme. Fred Brabley (221, of Greenock, who hat also lost his right leg, spent twa vears in the Royal Marines. Robert Carenduff ...