... would sing jolly comic songs to the others to cheer them up in hospital.' Ile went through the siege of Verdun and the battle of the Somme, and every time he got leave be came back to the hospital to look us up and tell us that he still kept smiling. As the ...

... feature of the week's programme has been the great film showing the Battle of the Macre: and the advance of the Tanks. Despite the cold weather excellent houses were secured. The battle film were a specially good one. and gave the public a most realistic ...

... from India at the outbreak of war and was sent to France. He first suffered from frostbite and next was wounded in the battle of the Somme, and again at Arras recently. His brother Bernard is also in France. LINLITHOOW SOLDIER IN HOSPITAL. Pte. James Scullion ...

... Matthew cluinnie, of the Canadian Field Ambulance, has gained the Military Medal for gallant service ou the field at the Battle of the Somme. He is native of Haywood. FAULDHOUOIK IAJNORIDOE ()ALA DA l.ongridge gala Day was held on Saturday. The weather was ...

... LlnaLitud and Family. !fermium Terrace, Bathigate. 110011NAET.—In loving memory of our dear son, John, killed at the battle of the Somme, lath September, 1916; also, oardear sou. Ewing, who died iu the Royal Infirniary, through a railway accident. 13th ...

... the battlefield. My regiment, he says. The Tyneside Scottish, went over the top one bright summer morning in the Battle of the Somme. We took men and officers over the top, and we left dead and wounded on the field 711 men and 23 officers, and there ...

... the spring did with the Austrians. 'nes. two great eontests accounted for nearly a million of our enemies, and the battles on the Somme have accounted for another quarter of a million at least. Our military leaders know the extent to which Germany can ...