... after the First World War, and where was the victory there? No victory at all. On July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the bloodiest day in the entire history of the British Army, in a little over an hour 67,470 casualties had been sustained ...

... 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 ...

... the dire-t 'traits at the end ot alter the battle of the Somme Ludendorff ’ays so All the Germans who have written about that pint of the war av -o The one thing Ludendorff feared wa' an arly renewal of tho battle of the Scmmc M’e had to the danger” ho -ysr ...

... 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 ...

... (don't be fooled by the name she really Jean Livingstone from Airdrie) is as attractive as her first record called ''Battle Of The Somme which might get over the top SPENCER NASA NEW IMAGE' boys from The Hague who make the most unusual (and most original ...

... music in Ravenscraig Park on Sunday at 3 p.m. Marches — Brown Haired Maiden, Barren Rocks of Aden, Highland l.addie, Battle of the Somme, Highland Dancing Display — Highland Fling, Sword Dance. March—79th’s Farewell to Gibraltar, Strathspey — Louden's Woods ...

... mother was a tower of strength he never talked the war or his injuries of the day he was blown up by a mine during the Battle of the Somme in 1915 We were married in 1918 four days before Armistice But a year later he was discharged from the Army and sent ...

... 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 ...