... GREAT BATTLE ON THE SOMME. RESULTS: 25 VILLAGES RETAKEN, 35,000 PRISONERS - CAPTURED, AND 150 GUNS TAKEN. General Jofire has an order of the day to the Armies of the North, expressing his profound satisfaction with the troops fighting on the Somme, For ...

... on Ist August, 1916, He was wounded in the battle of the Somme, and was in hospital in France for a few weeks. On recovering I‘;e again went to the fromt, and on 10th November, he was wounded at the battle of the Ancre. He was sent on to England and ...

... the Prime Minister and his words. Let me remind you of the facts. On March 2llst, 1918, there began the second great battle of the Somme. For us it was almost the beginning of the end. During the few days following March 21st Germany came nearer to winning ...

... pois'(mmn matter which alone is the tro o GERMAN REPORT OF SOMME FIGHTING. German evening papers* publish the first part of a long report from Headquarters concerning the battle of the Somme in July. It is stated that in the middle of May the German forces ...

... NON-FICTION The Battle of Verdun, described by Georges Blon in “Verdun” was the “hinge of fate” for the French Army, the prelude to the Battle of the Somme. It became as much a legend as Ypres was for the British. Joffre, Petain, Nivelle, Mangin, von ...

... Queensland and came on o Wellington, New Zealand. One lad died some vears ago, and Harold, the voungest, was killed at the battle of the Somme, Robert worked in a timber vard, and took an active yart in the Tinber Workers' nion, being at one tine the General ...

... the Ist Battalion | Cameron’s life was his unfailing towards the end of 1915. At the|loyalty to St. Magnus Episcopal Battle of the Somme the following | Church, of which he was patron. year he was wounded by shrapnel |On the roughest Sunday mornings in ...

... 15/6 0.8 LETTER FROM ULSTER. BELFAST, Monday Ulster Remembers. i The ninth anniversary of the Battle of the Somme was commemorated in Belfasy on Ist July. On that date in 1916 the Ulster Division ‘gained undying fame, and in the words of Marshal Foch ...

... Highlander in the 2% the foot of Burns Lane. (first World War, he was wounded When Mr Stove married the for'at the Battle of the Somme, but mer livhss Jesdsxfe CtithermetalSalndp |later saw i B son, he moved further up the lan: East. aw active service ...

... for France m July, o, He was woundand gassed at the battle of Loos in Septem. r. He spent several months in hospital, and his recovers «-* “~ lanw to th y, 1916, and was kiiled e battle of the Somme ust say that 1 have lost a most valuable soldier nd ...

... Private Burgess was drafted to France in 1916, and took part in the battle of the Somme angd also the Ancre. He contracted trench fever, after his re. covery from which be took part in the battle around Vimy Ridge, where he was wounded in one of his hands, Deing ...

... gently. “Yes. A tear ran down the girl's cheek. She wiped it away composedly, and continued : “It was at the Second Battle of the Somme —a machine gun. He was mentioned in dispatches, though. I'm glad he was mentioned n dispatches, ST There was a long ...