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... Muxero.—ln loving memory of my dear son, Norman M‘Leod Munro, 1/sth Gordon Highrs., who died of wounds received at the battle of the Somme, 31st July, 1916, son of the late John Ross Munro, blacksmith, and grandson of the late John Beedie, East Longhaven ...
... went tin. front March 1916, he had seen fighting, having gone through the Battle of the Somme in 1916, the German retreat from the Somme iu the early part of this v«ir. the Battle of Ridge, and lastly took part in th*. operation* near the Belgian coast ...
... at the battles of the Somme. The last battle of the Somme was to storm the fortress of Beaumont Hamel, ‘‘the significance of that curiously neglected last battle” being the subject of the last chapter. Acknowledging that the first day of the ...
... successes on the Somme lies in the fact that they were made, the amazement of the enemy, just after the French Army had beaten off the greatest assault which the enemy liad ever been able deliver. During the tir ...
... succeeded but sometimes failed, and four more lines have generally succeeded.” The casualties in the battles of the Somme were horendous. The first day of battle, Ist July, 1916, the Corps suffered more than 14,000 casualties. One Division lost 223 officers ...
... France with the 5th Battalion The Gordon Highlanders af the beginning of 1940 and served in the Maginot Line and in the Battle of the Somme. The battalion wag in the thick of the fighting back to St Valery, where he was taken prisoner. ...
... Turkish Army in the days of the great Saladin and the Crusades had been handed down.” Freyberg won his V.C. during the battle of the Somme when, although four times wounded, he led his men against the village of Beaucourt, capturing it with 500 (Joermans ...
... Air Force, and he held the rank of Flight Lieutenant. He had considerable flying experience and was all through the Battle of the Somme with No. 3 Squadron Royal Flying Corps. He afterwards served with 55 Squadron, In 1919 he left the R.A.F., in which ...
... magnificent achievements in the present war. They fought superbly in the first and third battles of Ypres, at Festubert, at Loos, at Arras, and on the Somme, At the first battle of Ypres, where the English Army, incrédibly inferior in numbers, guns, and munitions ...
... Aitken. Apart from the distinction which he has gained as an artist Mr Simpson was awarded the Military Cross after the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Visitors to the exhibition will quickly recognise many of the views which the artist has reproduced and will ...
... if space aeaih able 7.15, SevtptKe. The Palace. HANOVER BTREET. FETERHEAO. rreaeadoos Saecess Last Night THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE SOMME (Kin, George riatk ini Tiotonou. Troop, in *• TVraoim. MM the rcjulte iho Big Push.”) Not* SpMtal AnancMMOto. TilMday ...
... (79) each served the community as shopkeepers, he as a general merchant, and she as draper. Mr Angus lost a leg at the Battle of the Somme while serving with The Gordons in the Kaiser War. “A SNIP AT HALF THE PRICE.” On the left is the hairy version of Tony ...