... for bravery during the Battle of the Somme. For years Mr David Lumsden wore the ribbon of the decoration that he could not collect at the field ceremony because he was in hospital recovering from being gassed during the battle. ...

... Gardner The incredible casualty list resulting from the Battle of the Somme in 1916 won the battle the reputation of the worst catastophe in the history of the British Army. A vast, bloody folly, the battle decimated the ranks of the Army, destroying a whole ...

... daughter of the late Raymond Louis Binns, a second lieutenant in the Green Howsrds who had been killed in the first battle of the Somme. Lord Belhaven is succeeded by the son of his first marriage, Robert Anthony Carmichael Hamilton, Master of Belhaven ...

... kit of a Seaforth Highlander. He was among the first of Kitchener's troops to land in France, fighting in the gory battle of the Somme. In 1915 the Cumbernauld soldier was wounded. This, coupled with a shortage of manpower in the mines, led to Jimmy’'s ...

... That Terrible Day Fifty Years Ago AT 7.30 a.m., July 1, 1916, we began the Battle of the Somme. By nightfall, British troops had 50,000 casualties—the bloodiest day of both world wars. As I opened a box of ammunition, a chunk of German shell whizzed past ...

... year-old Harry Campbell, of Maxwelltown, Dumfries. As he sits in his wheelchair his mind will go back 50 yearsto the first Battle of the Somme. Harry was standing on parapet, scanning the battlescarred countryside, when there was a flash and an explosion. He ...

... shepherd who was wounded in the Battle of the Somme, and had only then successfully claimed a pension. When Mr Lorimer read the story, he thought he might be entitled to a pension, too. He also had been wounded at the Somme. The Germans had been pushed back ...

... At Last— The Man He's Been Looking For For 50 Years IT was the morning of St Patrick's Day, 1916, just before the battle of the Somme. Sergeant John McGuigan (29), of the Inniskilling Fusiliers, was in a trench when there was an explosion. A shell burst ...

... King's Own Scottish Borderers. He fought with the regiment through the early years of the war but in 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, he suffered a severe head wound when a high explosive shell burst near him, and was sent home to Cheltenham, England ...

... (don't be fooled by the name she really Jean Livingstone from Airdrie) is as attractive as her first record called ''Battle Of The Somme which might get over the top SPENCER NASA NEW IMAGE' boys from The Hague who make the most unusual (and most original ...

... when melted would occupy the same space a« it did when solid. 16—The number of miles the car has done. 17—The first battle of the Somme in 1916, with I' 4 million casualties. 18—A Border Collie, which uses a kind of eye-hypnotism. GROUP 4. 19—He didn't ...

... mother was a tower of strength he never talked the war or his injuries of the day he was blown up by a mine during the Battle of the Somme in 1915 We were married in 1918 four days before Armistice But a year later he was discharged from the Army and sent ...