... DELAY MEANS DEATH. The battle of the Somme caused 30.000 casualties on the first day. Of these approximately 3,000 would require transfusion, which would call for the forward provision of 7,500 pints of blood. Clearly, it would be impossible to obtain ...

... neck and attached to the bedpost.. s The inquest was on Mr. Alfred Briggs, a hosiery worker, who lost a leg at the Battle of the Somme. The Coroner recorded a verdict of Suicide whilst the balance of his mind was temporarily disturbed. Dr. George Alfred ...

... Portlsnd-straet (near Oxford-circus). DAILY, st 2.30 snd 8. THE BIG PUSH. THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. Official Pictures of tbs British Army in France. Also FRENCH OFFENSIVE ON THE SOMME snd the WILLIAMSON EX. PEDITION SUBMARINE PICTURES. THREE HOURS OF THREE ...

... served during the Ihl4-111 war in the Coldstream Guards,. was woundid at Loos in 1915 and again in 1917. During the Battle of the Somme he wai, awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field. At that time he was wring under fir late Col. Campbell ...

... of Ringers. Touches; of Single Court and Plain Bob were conducted by H. T Churchill. who lost his right arm in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. ...

... speaker congratulated the ;“., the procuring of the beautiful banner, and in pointing to one side which depicted the Battle of the Somme, said that he hoped mat men would never again be called upon to enter into a similar ‘W n j*o struggle, but he knew ...

... C orbett's Thy House for Vain Battle of the Somme. PORTADOWN MEMORIAL SERVICE. Rev. T. Makin's Thought- .ful Sermon A most impressive service in memory of the men who fail at the Battle of the SOMIlle was held in St. Mark's Church, Portadown, on Sunday ...

... that at Bunkers Hill in the American War of Independence, Inkermann in the Crimea. And, in the last war, we had the battle of the Somme, where frontal attacks achieved so little and caused such an enormous loss of life. We should have learned earlier that ...

... July and the Battle of the Somme. There was one difference about the Ist July which separated it from any other battle which was fought during the war, and it was this : At the Battle of the Somme the pride of our nation fell. In that ...

... Kelly much thanks for his forbearance. The matter then dropped'. .; - - Battle of the Somme. Wreaths Laid •at Portadown Memorial. The eleventh anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, ;n which so many Portadown men made :the supreme sacrifice, was quietly ...

... to the memory of our fallen heroes or not, it will be an unending disgrace to Portadown that seven years after the Battle of the Somme no apparent effort had been made to raise a monument to our glorious dead. Lurgan Black men visited Bangor on the ...

... actions in the disastrous Battle of the Somme, and his book tells the whole sickening story in vivid detail. The Somme . . a battle bloody that the casualty lists of Stalingrad, and even Hiroshima pall bv comparison. The Somme . . where the ...