... pois'(mmn matter which alone is the tro o GERMAN REPORT OF SOMME FIGHTING. German evening papers* publish the first part of a long report from Headquarters concerning the battle of the Somme in July. It is stated that in the middle of May the German forces ...

... the memorial by former member of the Battalion It was on July that the I7th HLI went into action at Thlcpxal in the Battle of the Somme A general view of the game in progress at Willowbank CluS Green in which the Canadian bowlers engaged yesteraay GUARDSMAN'S ...

... tractor and trailer became an infallible symbol of rain to come. And the garden looks like something left over from the battle of the Somme. We are credibly informed that the contemplation If a garden is a restful, soothing occupation. They haven’t seen our ...

... of national conflicts. ‘Pozieres 1916’ by Peter Charlton (Leo Cooper: Secker & Warburg £14.95) is a study of a key battle of the Somme, in which the Australian troops suffered more than 23,000 casualties. It is a story of strategic and tactical blunders ...

... memoirs of Captain Stormont Gibbs, MC, who survived the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and then took part in Arras in 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres and the retreat in 1918. These recollections by a battle-hardened veteran are set in their context by the editor ...

... boy turned to the schoolmaster in some dismay: ‘‘Goad, Mr Borland — they’re aal drinking Brasso”’. ““The Last Great Battle of the Somme”’, by G. Y Cheyne, published by John Donald, price £6.95. ‘““Piobaireachd and its Interpretations’’, by Seumas Mac Neill ...

... of Earn to join the battalion and was in the cook-house for a while before returning to France.” SOMME BATTLE Mr Sim was wounded at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and although it was not too serious, he was again sent home. In 1917 he was sent to Egypt ...

... Strip the Willow (Drops of Brandy — sometimes as a six/eights jig) and Scottish Lilt (danced to the World War | tune, Battle of the Somme)? Some noticed that many of the performers, although they spent much time, and appropriately so, describing the items ...

... Park and still have room for the ball boys. In the eighties, the monthly jobless totals read like returns from the Battle of the Somme — and there’s the rub. The music biz knows where the bucks are and they aren’t with the kids on YTS. Pop is now a m ...

... my attention engaged. The first I picked up was the last to arrive: it was still top of the heap. ““The Last Great Battle of the Somme’’. Did I really want to read another grim book about the First World War? I thumbed through the index and my eyes lighted ...

... after the First World War, and where was the victory there? No victory at all. On July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the bloodiest day in the entire history of the British Army, in a little over an hour 67,470 casualties had been sustained ...

... Gordon Mac- Lauchlan, whose numbers included “Uist Tramping Song,” “Mairi’s Wedding’, “Last Farewell to Stirling”, “Battle of the Somme”, and “The Fiery Cross”, among others. Later, Miss Mary Maclean joined them to sing “Last Thing opn My Mind”. Miss Maclean ...