... Coffin They will hold a special service there on Sunday to remember former members of the regiment who died in the Battle of the Somme in the First World War. The men have already passed through Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy and Austria on the run ...

... Bedfordshire Regiment. He served in Belgium. France. Italy and North Russia. and was Awarded the M.C. for gallantry in the Battle of the Somme. He also gained the Belgium Croix de Guerre, the M.8.Z.. and was twice mentioned In dispatches. He resigned his conunibslon ...

... Seeing sights of the Somme THE 76th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme will be one of the main events in Major and Mrs Holt’s Battlefield Tours brochure for 1991. th:emt.he'm be the last in Paris will organise a ceremony at Sir Edward ...

... WON MC IN SOMME BATTLE DIED IN ROAD ACCIDENT At a Maidstone inquest on Charles F. Judge. 69. a seaffolder, of The Rocks, East Mailing, fatally injured at Larkfleld, where be was knocked down on the main Vaidstone-London road by a car driven from Maidstone ...

... Delay Means Death. The battle of the Somme caused 30.000 casualties on the first day. Of these approximately 9.000 would require transfusion, which would call for the forward I provision of 7.500 pints of blood. Clearly. it would be impossible to obtain ...

... widespread sympathy will be felt for the Prime Minister, whose eldest son, Lieut. Raymond AsqUith, was killed in the great battle of the Somme Friday last The Prime Minister was at the Front last week, shortly before his son fell. The death of Mr. Raymond Asquith ...

... Market Street. Well-known for their battlefield tours, they took a party of 300 to mark the 70th aniversary of the Battle of the Somme: - The pichic took place outside the village of Poziers and among those attending was the local Mayor There was waiter ...

... friendship has been rekindled between e U Canterbury and two small French villages which | Ly were devastated by the Battle of the Somme. A The city’s much-needed aid to the stricken communities T abd g ‘,¢” b of Morval and Lesboeufs 75 years ago has never ...

... BIGGEST BLOW TO ENEMY. EFFECT OF SOMME VICTORY. SPECIAL PRAISE FOR TROOPS. An official account from the British Head. quarters of the great battle on the Somme or Friday and Saturday last describes it ai probably. the most effective blow which yet been ...

... •greatest film ever seen, .BATTLE OF THE SOMME, for three days commencing October 30th, this being the earliest date of bookings by the Director of War Films. No one should miss seeing this remarkable film. Actual Battle Scenes, taken on the field, ...

... Kiug* at the Front. French Official War Topical in two reels Pleast. i • . , , e ~, The British Official War Film, The Battle of the Somme and this film is booted to be shown at The OxM Ttamdaf Say Md SaWrday! December 14th, 16th and 16th. Pathe Coloured ...

... Awful price of Somme battle remembered MEMORIES were stirred on Friday when some of the Mwthamwsm memorhlwc:mw r colleagues who died in what has described as one of the bloodiest battlesinhistory. = = Y Home Secretary Michael Howard was among those who ...