... Dr Cruickshank was awarded the Military Cross in the field for attending the wounded, and was wounded himself at the Battle of the Somme. During the Second World War he set up and ran the West of Scotland emergency medical service. ...

... and Queant. Mecanwhile the losses of the en;m.v are in ex cess of anything that could bhave been imayz ined. 3 The battle of the Somme resulted in 730,000 men being placed hors de combat. . It is impossible to estimate those incurred in the bloody defeat ...

... 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 ...

... when Mr McDonald was home after service with the Black Watch during the First World War, He came safely through the Battle of the Somme, but ne ,was injured late in 1917, and subsequently sent homc. Both bride and groom were then 24 years old, The Rev ...

... 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 ...

... the memorial by former member of the Battalion It was on July that the I7th HLI went into action at Thlcpxal in the Battle of the Somme A general view of the game in progress at Willowbank CluS Green in which the Canadian bowlers engaged yesteraay GUARDSMAN'S ...

... of national conflicts. ‘Pozieres 1916’ by Peter Charlton (Leo Cooper: Secker & Warburg £14.95) is a study of a key battle of the Somme, in which the Australian troops suffered more than 23,000 casualties. It is a story of strategic and tactical blunders ...

... memoirs of Captain Stormont Gibbs, MC, who survived the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and then took part in Arras in 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres and the retreat in 1918. These recollections by a battle-hardened veteran are set in their context by the editor ...

... Park and still have room for the ball boys. In the eighties, the monthly jobless totals read like returns from the Battle of the Somme — and there’s the rub. The music biz knows where the bucks are and they aren’t with the kids on YTS. Pop is now a m ...

... Strip the Willow (Drops of Brandy — sometimes as a six/eights jig) and Scottish Lilt (danced to the World War | tune, Battle of the Somme)? Some noticed that many of the performers, although they spent much time, and appropriately so, describing the items ...