... German helmet. Mr Brown Joined the Army as a volunteer in 1915 and was posted to Arres, France, year later, amid the Battle of the Somme, where he served for more than two years. “While in the trenches, I worked a four-day week in the front line, but I ...

... Weatthinster, 1910 There were more then 100 arrests when suffragettes tried to storm the House Of Commons. 1916 The first battle of the Somme ended, 1926 George Bernard Shaw refused to accept the Nobel Prize money of £7,000 awarded to.him. He said: t can forgive ...

... Aber deen, died the Auxiliary Hospital, f errors, Northamptonshire, on Tuesday. was wounded on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, and had been in hospital since. ij&nc.-tdrporal Howie served ui.piem.ceship as a warehouseman with Messrs Milno and ...

... series following the work of the in the Scottish 11.00 the Skies The Areoplane Goes to War ...

... SHARP INFANTRY, FIGHTING ON THE BRITISH FRONT. INTENSE ARTILLERY FIRE AT VERDUN. STUBBORN CONFLICTS IN EASTERN GALICIA. Battle of the Somme. During Wednesday night fighting continued at various parts of the British front, but there was no change in the situation ...

... ABERDEEN'S INTEREST SOMME FILM. ABSENCE OF CRITICISM. The Picture House and Palace Theatre, Aberdeen, in both of which the famous War Office film, The Battle of the Somme, has been screened during the present -week, have experienced phenomenal houses ...

... DESPERATE GERMAN ATTACKS SOUTH OF THE SOMME. U.S. CITIZENS ON STEAMER SUNK WITHOUT WARNING. GREAT BATTLE RAGING ON THE CERNA. Somme. Operations the British front have again been hindered bad weather. On the British right, however, the French have made ...

... from 1914 1916, referring a personal question, said: was oHarged with the wanton waste of men entrusted command at the battle of the Somme. T repudiate that charge witii indignation. The measures which led to this loss were •v't.her in opposition to my r ...

... and to survive the greatest disaster in the history of the British Army’ To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme some of the remaining survivors tell their remarkable stories. (Repeat). It.oo A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM Lindsay Kemp ...

... * * * QNE incident in the Battle of the Somme revealed the efficiency of the signallers. Before the attack. Sergeant Irvine and his linesmen laid down communications between the batteries and the O.P.'s. They had just completed the job when the Boche ...

... Aberdeen aged 92. Mr Galashan, Craigton Terrace, Culter, was a corporal in the 7th Gordon Highlanders. He survived the Battle of the Somme and was wounded at High Wood. He was 45 years with the former Culter Paper Mills, latterly as foreman papermaker. A ...

... danger, and the infantry are full of admiration the way the stretclier-bearers worked. shall have vivid picture of the battle ol the Somme in my mind if live bo 100. The fighting spirit the British Army great just now, and if the are fighting with desperation ...