... OPEN TUESDAY 10 TO 3 P M. Registered Custotners Oily. Major George Onions, 62. who won the V.C.during the second battle of the Somme. has died in a SMUldnitham hospital k_ ...

... ROOK The annissrsary of the battle of the Somme (1M), in which the Ulster Division figured prominently, was celebrated in Belfast on Friday, when mesaages were receired from Marshal Foch, Earl Haig, Earl Jelliooe, and Lord Carson. ...

... neck and attached to the bedpost.. s The inquest was on Mr. Alfred Briggs, a hosiery worker, who lost a leg at the Battle of the Somme. The Coroner recorded a verdict of Suicide whilst the balance of his mind was temporarily disturbed. Dr. George Alfred ...

... of Ringers. Touches; of Single Court and Plain Bob were conducted by H. T Churchill. who lost his right arm in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. ...

... of captain when demobilised, after three months with the Army of Occupation in Germany. His M.C. he won in the last battle of the Somme in March, Ink at Peranne, and wee then attached to the Bth East Surreys. A Lancashire man—he was born at Prestoshe joined ...

... heavy casualties at Neuve Chapelle Later it took a prominent part in the Battle of the Somme, and in other outstanding engagements, and in July. 1917. took part in the third battle of Ypres. where Capt. Colyer Pcrgusson was awarded the V.C. In the following ...

... to his dear ones had not been able to see him during the whole of the long war. and in 1916 he was wound ed in the Battle of the Somme. Wc were very pleased to hear that he was in Eng land, where he was looked after so well.’* Speaking of Christmas she ...