... France. - His father and four brothers were all hilled on the same day—July 15th, 1916—in the first advance at the battle of the Somme. The eldest son was only twenty-two. The youth's three sisters were all killed in air raids, while his mother was the ...

... Battalion was formed in Glasgow wholly from members and ex-members — only to be decimated on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The ‘military’ ghost was finally laid to rest in 1926 when the BB amalgamated with the Boys' Life Brigade and abandoned ...

... further chronicle of the Crowther and Pillings families. Harris, J. Covenant with Death —fictional treatment of the Battle of the Somme. Holt, V. Mistress of Mellyn—a young_Victorian governess and the mysteries surrounding a large and forbidding Cornish ...

... leaving School. During the First World War, he served with the Royal Scots, and lost part of his right arm in 1917 at the Battle of the Somme. 4 % Despite his handicap, Mr Hampton joined the Post Office in Forfar after the war, and worked on a rural d*vory round ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...