... broke out In that year Mr Knight )omed the 16th battalion Kings Royal Rifles, and went out France. He took part in the battle ot the Somme, and in July. 1916, was wounded in High Wood, as a result of which he lost his right amt He was demobilised in 1917 ...

... the doctor was it practice for many years. They had two sons, the elder of whom was killed in the Great War in the Battle of the Somme. Their second son is a captain in Home Army, serving in the present war, and their grandson. also in the Army, Is a ...

... was a bugler with the London Scottish. and was later with the Cordon Highlandera. He in France until after the first battle of the Somme. Then, found unfit for further iofantr) duties because of war wounds, he was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps an observer ...

... brother was originally in the Bth Hussars, and in the last war he was in command of a trench mortar battery. At the Battle of the Somme in 1918 he received a wound in the right arm. Witness said that she last saw her brother alive on July le, and she thought ...

... about 200 of Low Cher's Lambs who bad been brought in after the fetal attach they made at Richeborg hours before the battle of the Somme commenced. About half of that convoy were boys from Eastbourne and district. ...

... a lance-corporal in the Royal Sussex Regiment, Mr Simmonds saw action with the Fourth Army in France and during the battle of the Somme he was severely wounded and decorated for gallantry. At the end of the war he returned to his native Eastbourne. In ...

... any time was he considered clever. He went out to France is 1915 in the first world war and was blinded during the Battle of the Somme. It was Sir Arthur Pearson who discovered the 'Way of one of whom it had been said a a boy: What shah we do with hint ...