... Marshall in a simple attitude. It is expected that it wdl be inaugurated on July 4th, the tenth anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. ...

... (Councillor Sheerien) to take part in the annual Locke Park service on Sunday in memory of the Barnsley men who fell in the battle of the Somme. Mr Sheerien, a Socialist, was a conscientious objector during the war, and has at various times denounced militarism ...

... was not allowed to go tq France until 1916. He reached France just before the Battle of the Somme, and in his first engagement won the Military Cross. Later, at the Battle of Arras, he earned bar. After the war he went in for medicine, and from Aberdeen ...

... BEVERLEY ROAD MONDAY, TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY NEXT OCTOBER 16, 17 and 18 The most talked of Picture of the year “THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME,” In Five Parts CONTINUOUS FROM 2.20 to 10.30 ...

... their cffectives were iv The Germans yester- and vee they day be gan a furious battle on the Somme, and it is our soldiers who have gained a yvrear vietory. North of the Somme some hestile alte a brisk hovse-to-house figh regained a footing in tae elun ...

... Britain's postwar fight for economic and social recovery. The Battle of the Somme, which tested the tenacity, the grit, and the dogged courage of our Army, is comparable with the battle for the pound which was won by the banks, the industrial leaders ...

... when Mr Clayton and Major Carver met in hospital at Boulogne, where MajorCarverwas nursing his wounds received at'the battle of the Somme. This was the beginning of a close friendship. The other recipient of one of these triptychs was Lord Salisbury. —London ...

... capacity of chief officer. Private Ernest King's lioyal Rifljs, 1.0 wa« reported missing since last September after the battle of the Somme, is now reported kiiloij action. the nephew of .nd Mrs Bellamy. Kirkella, and grandson of S. f- ole, and before enlisting ...

... In August 1914 he enlisted with 12 senior members of that company in the Green Howards and went to France before the Battle of the Somme as captain and adjutant of the 19th London Regiment He fought in the Balkans and Palestine and was awarded the Military ...

... Have you ever been in the war?— Yes, I was at the front until I was taken prisoner. Where did you win the V.C.?—At the Battle of the Somme 1916. Alderman White: It is extraordinary. There no record of it. V.C.s are not given away with pound of tea. . Mr A ...

... has been informed by Hie Imperial War Graves Commission thot the body of her son, who was reported missing r.fter the battle Qf the Somme on September 191G, has been found near Les Boeufs, in France, and has been reburied the London Cemetery extension, Highwood ...

... Milner). In making the presentation, the Lord Mayor stated that Private Galbraith was in one the support trenches in the battle of the Somme, after being seven months in the firing line, when he was struck shrapnel, which necessitated the amputation of both ...