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... 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 ...
... NON-FICTION The Battle of Verdun, described by Georges Blon in “Verdun” was the “hinge of fate” for the French Army, the prelude to the Battle of the Somme. It became as much a legend as Ypres was for the British. Joffre, Petain, Nivelle, Mangin, von ...
... the dire-t 'traits at the end ot alter the battle of the Somme Ludendorff ’ays so All the Germans who have written about that pint of the war av -o The one thing Ludendorff feared wa' an arly renewal of tho battle of the Scmmc M’e had to the danger” ho -ysr ...
... Queensland and came on o Wellington, New Zealand. One lad died some vears ago, and Harold, the voungest, was killed at the battle of the Somme, Robert worked in a timber vard, and took an active yart in the Tinber Workers' nion, being at one tine the General ...
... the Ist Battalion | Cameron’s life was his unfailing towards the end of 1915. At the|loyalty to St. Magnus Episcopal Battle of the Somme the following | Church, of which he was patron. year he was wounded by shrapnel |On the roughest Sunday mornings in ...
... music in Ravenscraig Park on Sunday at 3 p.m. Marches — Brown Haired Maiden, Barren Rocks of Aden, Highland l.addie, Battle of the Somme, Highland Dancing Display — Highland Fling, Sword Dance. March—79th’s Farewell to Gibraltar, Strathspey — Louden's Woods ...
... 15/6 0.8 LETTER FROM ULSTER. BELFAST, Monday Ulster Remembers. i The ninth anniversary of the Battle of the Somme was commemorated in Belfasy on Ist July. On that date in 1916 the Ulster Division ‘gained undying fame, and in the words of Marshal Foch ...
... Highlander in the 2% the foot of Burns Lane. (first World War, he was wounded When Mr Stove married the for'at the Battle of the Somme, but mer livhss Jesdsxfe CtithermetalSalndp |later saw i B son, he moved further up the lan: East. aw active service ...
... for France m July, o, He was woundand gassed at the battle of Loos in Septem. r. He spent several months in hospital, and his recovers «-* “~ lanw to th y, 1916, and was kiiled e battle of the Somme ust say that 1 have lost a most valuable soldier nd ...
... groomsman SOMME ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE OYWMMWMMaWMM aBBggPatg ''' Ex-members of the 17th HII (the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) paraded yesterday at the Cenotaph in George Square in connection with the anniversary of the opening of the Battle of the ...
... Private Burgess was drafted to France in 1916, and took part in the battle of the Somme angd also the Ancre. He contracted trench fever, after his re. covery from which be took part in the battle around Vimy Ridge, where he was wounded in one of his hands, Deing ...
... gently. “Yes. A tear ran down the girl's cheek. She wiped it away composedly, and continued : “It was at the Second Battle of the Somme —a machine gun. He was mentioned in dispatches, though. I'm glad he was mentioned n dispatches, ST There was a long ...