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... DELAY MEANS DEATH. The battle of the Somme caused 30.000 casualties on the first day. Of these approximately 3,000 would require transfusion, which would call for the forward provision of 7,500 pints of blood. Clearly, it would be impossible to obtain ...
... that at Bunkers Hill in the American War of Independence, Inkermann in the Crimea. And, in the last war, we had the battle of the Somme, where frontal attacks achieved so little and caused such an enormous loss of life. We should have learned earlier that ...
... of 16, he joined the Manchester Regiment and saw active service In France. Belgium and Italy, being wounded in the battle of the Somme. It was three years after the end of the war —on January 12 th, 1921. that Sergeant Turner entered the police service ...
... those sent to Egypt at the end of 1915, but immediately back to France. It saw fighting in the battle of the Somme, the pursuit to the Hindenbnrg Line, the Battles of Arras, slid both the March and April, 1918. offensives. Weak Back and Headaches ...
... Bullough, Ltd., Accrington. Daring the 18 months he served in France he participated in much heavy fighting, including the battle o! the Somme, and was badlv wounded about the lege at Arras, on April last. Ha had undergone numerous operations Whalley, but, unhappily ...
... Bolton-by-Bowland Parish Church, on the 21st. Prior to the screening at King Lane Picture Hall of scenes from The Battle of the Somme. the financial proceeds being for the benefit of Barraclough Military Hospital, Dr. Orme tendered the thanks of the ...
... February, 1919. when he was demobilised with the rank of acting sergeant-major in the 46th Trench Mortar Battery. In the Battle of the Somme in 1916, Waddington won the D.C.M., and in August. 1918, in action at Soissons, he gained the Military Modal. After ...
... aged 18 inow you will know how old I am!), private soldier—an infantryman I was severely wounded during the first battle of the Somme, but I was only one among hundreds of thousands of others who died or suflered. Receiving thirteen severe wounds all ...
... Fiower, : 1. Mary 2, Mary Whittaker. ceived one in the Bedfordshire Regiment. He again saw service took part .n the 1916 battle of the Somme and in Beaumont Ham«l. and then had to resign his commission for health reasons. Meanwhile his partner only stayed at ...