... those early days. Lost A Les Mr. Whadcoat in the Royal during the first Wald War and saw service in France. It at the Battle of the Somme that he was severely wounded and had one of hes legs amputated. _ _ 'On his discharge he waited as a handyman for Dr ...

... official communique. Referring to the battle of the Somme, Richthofen says: Our master, Boelcke, once said this was the El Dorado for fliers. Never did start without fighting, and often there were great air battles with forty to sixty English airmen against ...

... in the last war. having learned to fly at Brooklands. and won the DS.O for leading, his fighter squadron into the Battle of the Somme. Last year he was in a Sunderland hit bv flak during attack on a IT-boat.l -boat. The squadron in 4he Azorr? flew there ...

... PAVED THE WAY. A letter from a brigade officer in the Tyneside Irish runs follows: When the history of the battle of the Somme comes to be seen in its true perspective I think it will be found that one of the most brttliant chapters in that story the ...

... aiteann hopeteee. and fee battle of fee Somme dree to olose, the French troop* participating in the battle had taken 43,000 priaonera, field gone, Ml heavy guna, and tronoh mortar* and moot mega M. The winter arraoted fee battle at a meet inopportune moment ...

... spending many years abroad. He was twice wounded in the Great War, the first time in 1918 during the Battle of the Somme and the second time in the Battle of Arras at Easter, 1917. Since the Great War he has served in India, Burma and Ceylon, ...

... who enlisted the Notts, and Derby Regiment on January 16th, 1915, who suffered shell concussion and wm gassed in the Battle of the Somme, and was invalided on August 3rd, 1916, with pain in the chest, head, and back, difficulty of speech, dimness, and insomnia ...

... Herts,, Field Marshal Earl Haigs British Legion Appeal In memory of her son. John Curtis Noyes, who was killed the Battle of the Somme. Mr. Rrtarlt* Stanlay ..Crow C 53 455 prr>«ntlt.T £52.555», of Bril Hill l*oitafr. Kibomr, Xewhmjr. Brrk*., I»ft the ...

... 1918 In 1916 doctors gave him just a few days to live after a piece of shrapnel hit him in the jaw and neck at the Battle of the Somme He was also known to Evening Post readers as one of our oldest surviving former delivery boys He delivered the Post ...

... Bavaria), 1,000 marks, with the request that he will accept it as email token of gratitude for true comradeship at the battle of the Somme on 9 September, 1918. He expressed a desire that his bodv should be conveyed the place of his birth and be cremated ...

... IN SOMME IDuring the war he served with the Northumberland Pusihers but his left thou/der Cl' r.'clitdei during Battle of the Somme. He was In hoipital In Manchester for one Year and in 1917 was discharged. Unab'e to go back to the leather trade he Ifound ...

... D • miturham ally Clasette. placed on the Headquarters Staff of the Third and Fourth Armies, He took part in the battle of the Somme, on the Fonguevillers sector, with a trench mortar battery, and fought in the assault on Gommecourt. Colonel Baldwin-Webb ...