... PRIVATE PETER PETERSON. The above is a portrait of Peter Peterson, aged 26 years, who was killed in action at the battle of the Somme on 12th July, 1916. He was the third eon of Mr Laurence Peterson, Packin, Hillswick. Private Petersony says a correspondent ...

... Sun. New series our nearest neighbours in — the planets. 8.00 LIONS LED BY DONKEYS. The Battle of the Somume. Some of the remaining survivors of the Battle of the Somme, now in their nineties, tell their remarkable stories. 9.00 UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS.| 10 ...

... Reel — Baumont Hamel: Dornie Ferrie: Rejected Suitor. 3/4 Marches—Green Hills; 1 See Mull; Battle is o’er. 9/3 Marches—Hills of Darrgii; Battle of the Somme. AT RAVENSCRAIG PARK. 6/8 Marches—O’er the Charlie; Hot Punch landers: Up in the Early: Queen ...

... Memories of the Somme With the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme still fresh in the minds of many, two local ministers, the Rev. Robert Eaves, 5 Strathallan Close, Stenton, and the Rev. Alexander Caseby, 4 Mac Duff Road, Auchmuty, have written ...

... France for 21 months, taking part in many imxorunt battles He was quickly promoted, and has now been raised to the rank of Coy.-Sergt.-Major. He was wounded in the back by shrapnel in the battle of the Somme last year. His promotion and decciation will be ...

... THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF BATTLE. GERMAN FUTILITY. PARIS, Saturday The thirty-first day of the battle in the Somme district brought no material modification on the whole of the front. North and south of the Somme the French organised the positions captured ...

... FOR ALL THE FAMILY \ “Somme” by Lyn Macdonald (M. Joseph £12.95) is the third book in this “author's powerful history series of the First World War. It brings to life the 1916 Battle of the Somme, the battle which has epitomised all the horror of that ...

... completing his training, was drafted to France, where he has taken part in much hard fighting, being wounded in the battle of the Somme. After a period in hospital in England, he paid a bricf visit to his friends in Mid-Yell, before againf returning to ...

... (he lost his issue), but he got this badge from Fred Steele, whose father, Mr J]. Steele, was killed at the second battle of the Somme in 1917. Before joining up he worked on the railway. j The badge has been in the family ...

... Kingdom, enjoying the festivities and meeting old friends. On September 15, 1916, the first tank went into action at the battle of the Somme and the 60th anniversary of this new era in warfare was marked with a weekend of parades, sports, special dinners and ...

... warfare in World War 1. Before being wounded and returned to Blighty, he took part in the Battle of the Somme, the battles of Arras and Cambrai, and the Third Battle of Ypres. John Tucker makes the reader realise what it was like to fight in the war to end ...

... Western Canada, On the outbreak of the 1914 war he enlisted in the Canadian Infantry and was so severely wounded at the battle of the Somme that his right leg had to be removed. Since then he has lived in British Columbia where he married again following the ...