... R. FARMER SHE', LONG STREET. ATHERSTONE PICTUREDROME. As anticipated, the great The Battle of the Somme. proved a great attrAction at the Picturedrome during the first half if the week, and the hall was crowded each time it was shows, the building no ...

... France where be was serving with the Royal Warwickshire Itegiosent throughout the first world war. He fouglt In the Int battle of the Somme recalls that the ordy time he was wounded la the whale of wet exactly one west after the Medal of the lost a the war ...

... TILE WaITERN FRONT. It was in February that the result of the Battle of the Somme became manifest. Begun in the previous summer and continued until well into the autumn, with the capture of many strong positions which the -enemy had held for two years ...

... GREAT RATTLE PICTURE. Crowded houses Cr. sowed on the first three nights of next week, when the great War film. The Battle of the Somme, will be shown twists each evening, with a matinee on it I o'clock. The scenes produced will, of coarse. be precisely ...

... military 'service. Prince George of Saxony, in describing a recent review by the Kaior of Germans fresh from the battle of tho Somme, says: They were mere skeletons of companies, battalions led by captains, some companies led by lieutenants and se ...

... with the 1/8 Worcesters and saw much active service. He received the Military Medal for bravery on the field in the Battle of the Somme. He afterwards served m Mesopatmmo MAI lculv At Cotford he was admired by all with whom and for whom he laboured, for ...

... Royal Field Artillery as a gunner and signaller. After 'seeing action' in the Dardanelles and Egypt. he fought at the battle of the Somme. where he was wounded by flying shrapnel in his left hand and right knee. Three months convalescence. however, was enough ...

... British Division had taken, and more irn. portent had held Devine Wood but after reading John Masefield's book The Battle of the Somme published two years ago. I was cut down to size. After describing how the South Africans took and lost the wood he ...

... years of age in 1914, and served in the Royal Warwicks Regt. He saw active service in France, being wounded in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, Belgium, Mesopotania and with General Allenby in Pah.stine. He joined the Warwickshire Constabulary in 1921 ...

... medals, and was wounded in the face by shrapnel on the day the armistice was announced. During the war he fought at the Battle of the Somme and was promoted to Corporal. Mrs. Oxford still remembers the day she fell for her husband. He had just come home on ...

... of four children. Joseph had just been demobbed from the Devonalire regiment with a knee injury he received in the battle of the Somme in 1916. _ The erst bus, a double-decker Daimler, came to the town in 1911. The driver was a man sent from the Daimler ...

... Corps Coinmanders, and is understood to have taken more ground and captured more prisoners than any other force the battle of the Somme was begun in July last. Both the R.M. Battalions attained their objective, but their casualties Akre very heavy, and ...