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... election on May 4. Councillor Mrs Ross, who is the widow of Captain Peter Ross. 16th Royal Scots. who was killed in the Battle of the Somme, represented the British Legion for several years on the Edit burgh War Pensions Committee and was thereafter appointed ...
... being picket! up. On his transfer to France took part in several of the big battle*, including the Somme, the Ancre. Arras, the third and fourth battles of Ypres, and the battle of Hill and Ploegsteert Wood. He was awarded bar the D.S.O. for his fighting ...
... taken the necessary steps to ensure that the plans for the erection of a Franco-British monument to commemorate the Battle of the Somme. are carried out. ...
... fi concluded with casualties whic were small compared with those suffered in the last war. “On the first day of the Battle of the Somme the British Army sustained 60,000 casualties, so we can imagine what it would have cost the Allies to force the Axis ...
... ” He was ridden by Captain the Hon. F. Guest at the first battle of Le Cateau, by Sir John French at the first battle of Ypres, and by “his owner—then Major-General J. E. B. Seely—on the Somme, the advance to the Hindenburg line, Passchendaele, and many ...
... grandchildren. Three of their sons joined the Colours at the beginning of the Great War, one' of whom was lost at the battle of the‘ Somme. Mr and Mrs Philp have received, on the occasion of their %olden wedding, presents from their family and friends. ...
... months of inactivity followed. At last I was appointed assistant producer and technical flying adviser for the film The Battle of the Somme.' Besides my work as a producer I took the part in that film of the young airman. That job finished in June this year ...
... when the Great War broke out, and early in 1915 joined the King's Liverpool Regiment as a private; was wounded at the battle of the Somme the following year, and discharged as no longer fit for Army service in 1917. ...
... sometimes compare the successive stages then with those of fo-day. J énuarg 1917 looked back on Loos and the First Battle of the Somme and Gallipoli. It was not revealed that Passchendaele lay in the months ahead, with all its agonies of mud and blood ...
... sentiment and tradition. It rendered,, as a unit of the 34th Division, distinguished services, notably at the great Battle of the Somme on the Ist of July, 1916, when, with the 16th Battalion of the same regiment, it advanced as far as any battalion in ...
... gallantly in_the Battle of the: Somme in 1916. Behind this journey to London lies the story of a remarkable war-time Bpledge taken by members of the Tenth Balloon Comgany of the Royal Air Force during the fiercest fighting at the Battle of :the %omme_. ...