... PILGRIMAGE TO THE SOMME More. than 200 First World War veterans will this week make their official pilgrimage from Britain to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. The ranks of survivors of one of the bloodiest battles in history are ...

... Premiére. A platoon of soldiers i huddle in the mud of France i awaiting the big push that will : signal the onset of the Battle :of the Somme. Drama starring : Paul Nicholls. 292117 11:40 { ‘Beloved. 11322136 2:30 Le : Diner De Cons. 3949808 3:55 * Hurricane ...

... Timewatch Eighty years after the Battle Of The Somme, history finds Field Marshal Earl Haig may not merit the tag of blundering butcher. BBC 2, 9.30-10.30 pm The Naked Truth Tabloid journalist Tea Leoni strays from the moral high ground to earn a fast ...

... 1916 was a day that those who lived through it will never forget . Great hopes were placed in the launching of the Battle of ihe Somme not only by ihe leaders of the British Army , but also by tho civilian population at home . But as the casualty lists ...

... REMEMBER THE SOMME | Twenty serving members of the 51st Highland Division, and ten men who fought with it when it attacked Béaumont Hamel in 51916. will attend the commemoration in France of the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. | The divisional ...

... each. AT THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. After a period of I;aining in England, the battalion went overseas. The men had not long to wait for their first taste of the horrors of modern warfare, their first engagement being the Battle of the Somme, in July, 1916 ...

... battalion , which was originally composed of business and commercial men in Glasgow , suffered heavy losses in tne Battle of the Somme of 1916 , and yesterday marked Ihe anniversary of that dark day . The parade w as headed by Colonel D . S . Morton ...

... ALLIES' DOUBLE / AIM Pabib , September 26 . , Tie correspondent of , the Liberty writing of yesterday's battle on the Somme , says : — . Our . troops and ' . thn valknt British contingent ? acting in co-oporation have brought off a very great success ...

... SOMME ANNIVERSARY. The anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, where, in 1916, the Ulster Division displayed great gallantry and suffered heavy casualties, was celebrated yesterday in Belfast. where the City Corporation passed a resolution reaffirming ...

... outside Amiens of a pantheon as a memorial to soldiers of the Allied nations who fell at the Battle of the Somme . To-day M . Briandin receiving tho executive of the Somme Memorial Committeoheaded by M . Klotz , declared that the Government approved the aims ...

... other day that wo thought the capture of a few hundred yards of trench a matter for rejoicing . With the coining of the battle of the Somme the British public learned to expect the dail y gain of a French village as regularly as . the morning milk . Now such ...

... clock and 6 . 30 on . the morning of September 15 , 1916 , Hubert Cedrio Jopson first went over the top during , tho Battle of the Somme .. Exactly sixteen years Jatcr , betweon 6 and 6 . 30 on the morning 1 of September 151932 Hubert Jopson killed his ...