... returned from the Great War of 1914-18 My father driver Ishmael Hill No 252440 served in the Royal Field Artillery in the Battle of the Somme He was badly disabled in that conflict He enlisted at 15 years of age pretending to be 18 years old He was fined two ...

... providing us with the following chapters from the First World War adventures of his maternal grandfather who survived the Battle of The Somme - and the entire war - sometimes by the very ‘skin of his teeth’ A photograph of John Thomas Welsh pictured with a quartette ...

... of it at the time It was during that battle on the Somme when he won his VC that the first-ever use of tanks had been made Tanks made at the Wednesbury Waggon and Carriage Company were used in the battles on the Somme in 1916 Did he ever see one I wonder ...

... women’s 100m (C) (S) 820 What the Papers Say A leaf through the week’s stories (C) (S) 830 Western Front Why was the Battle of the Somme such a disaster? (R) (C) (S) 900 World Athletics ’99 Sue Barker introduces track and field action from the first day ...