... OPEN TUESDAY 10 TO 3 P M. Registered Custotners Oily. Major George Onions, 62. who won the V.C.during the second battle of the Somme. has died in a SMUldnitham hospital k_ ...

... DELAY MEANS DEATH. The battle of the Somme caused 30.000 casualties on the first day. Of these approximately 3,000 would require transfusion, which would call for the forward provision of 7,500 pints of blood. Clearly, it would be impossible to obtain ...

... neck and attached to the bedpost.. s The inquest was on Mr. Alfred Briggs, a hosiery worker, who lost a leg at the Battle of the Somme. The Coroner recorded a verdict of Suicide whilst the balance of his mind was temporarily disturbed. Dr. George Alfred ...

... served during the Ihl4-111 war in the Coldstream Guards,. was woundid at Loos in 1915 and again in 1917. During the Battle of the Somme he wai, awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field. At that time he was wring under fir late Col. Campbell ...

... that at Bunkers Hill in the American War of Independence, Inkermann in the Crimea. And, in the last war, we had the battle of the Somme, where frontal attacks achieved so little and caused such an enormous loss of life. We should have learned earlier that ...

... the doctor was it practice for many years. They had two sons, the elder of whom was killed in the Great War in the Battle of the Somme. Their second son is a captain in Home Army, serving in the present war, and their grandson. also in the Army, Is a ...

... Buccleuch Street. Barrow-in-Punaess, told how. when present at a seance, his deceased uncle. who was killed In the Battle of the Somme In the former war, spoke to his mother of the grief and anguish caused by war. He lapplicant) then ti. , wed not to ...

... Grange, but when war broke out he was one of the Old Gontemptibles; and went out to France. On :August 28th in the first battle of the Somme. he was wounded and captured by the Germans. and was held as a prisoner of war in Germany until 1919. Before the Great ...

... he served as a combatant with the Royal Fusiliers and the 'Marine Gun Corps. He was ,severely wounded in the first battle of the Somme in July 1916, as a result of which his arm was amputated in *llan Wield floapital He received his training at St. Aidan's ...

... of life, and making them lose their appreciation of the finer arts. He quoted Studdert Kennecly'3 reference to the Battle of the Somme as being a fitting climax to the whole tragedy of murder by machinery. He asked them to contemplate the world as they ...

... brother was originally in the Bth Hussars, and in the last war he was in command of a trench mortar battery. At the Battle of the Somme in 1918 he received a wound in the right arm. Witness said that she last saw her brother alive on July le, and she thought ...

... Bolton-by-Bowland Parish Church, on the 21st. Prior to the screening at King Lane Picture Hall of scenes from The Battle of the Somme. the financial proceeds being for the benefit of Barraclough Military Hospital, Dr. Orme tendered the thanks of the ...