... Army in 1916 at the age of 18, joining what subsequently became the Royal Tank Corps, but was wounded in the second battle of the Somme in September, 1918, and was invalided home. n 1919 he founded the firm of D. Byford and Co., making socks in one room ...

... Wireless For The Blind WHEN I was a young soldier in a battle on the Somme a sniper's bullet struck me across the eyes and I did not see again, but I can visualise. That is to say, X can make pictures in my mind from the things I hear, and when an i ...

... forces in the Second World War. He won the DSO at Gallipoli and the Victoria Cross for his part in the operations in the Battle of the Somme in World War I t (v(( Independence Day at Sea Members ot the comple ment of the U.S. nuclear- powered aircraft carrier ...

... organising a meeting at the Machine Gun Corps Memorial, Hyde Park Corner, on 1 July to mark the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. London Transport are having metal bars screwed across Underground ticket-windows to frustrate snatch thieves. Poor ...

... rt, Gamaches, Daours, Carnoy Valley. But the task appals me. I have brought you only to the beginning of the first battle of the Somme. As the years passed the names of these little hamlets recur and pile up a list of far more than a hundred names, labelling ...