... 'THE: GREAT BATTLE ON THE SOMME. Allies Continue Their Advance. BRITISH CAPTURE GINCHY VILLAGE. Splendid Successes by the Frencil. In tho lighting in Franie, tho Allies continue to do well, the most notoworthy featuros during the weak Wing the capture ...

... Opening Events Of The Battle Of The Somme. NORTH MIDLANDERS GET A SHOCK. When The sth Leicesters' Grenadiers Were fusillade of Mills. Captain Shields could throw a tremendous distance, as eye-witnesses appreciatively observed. Another officer skilled ...

... play their pmt. The Ist Lelosters took a share in the rush to the sea, and later were in the closing stages of the Battle of the Somme. ...

... of 17, he was awarded the Military Medal at the second battle of Ypres. Was one of 18 survivors of his regiment of more than a thousand. Mentioned in despatches twice during the battle of the Somme. Served in World War II in his old regiment as sergeant-major ...

... TO NATION. Colonel G. K. Crossfield. D. 5.0., former commander of a Lancashire Battalion, who lost a leg in the Battle of the Somme: Mr. F. T. Green (provisional B.W.L. candidate for Leicester), and Mr. Victor Fisher also strongly criticised • the policy ...

... 'example of clever make-up. A tour of South Africa with Sir Frank Benson followed. Hardwicke enlisted and served in the Battle of the 'Somme, Arras, and the big retreat of 1918 before gaining the distinction of being the last British officer to lea‘e French ...

... FILM FEATURES. it XI.. BATTLE PICTURES AT FLORAL HALL. The enormous interest shown in the first serial of pictures taken during the Battle of the Somme seems only to have served to whet the public ..ppothe for still more authentic representations of the ...

... welcoming the 11th Battalion of the Regiment, which had come out to serve as Pioneers for the Sixth Division. Meanwhile the Battle of the Somme had opened, and the Leicesters seemed out of it once more! But they were not. By August the battalion was marching ...

... Emmett might have invented. Arthur could think back undisturbed to Army days when he nearly went over the top in the battle of the Somme. He was held back by a Fate which preserved him to become the unknown friend of the convivial ` ...

... wounded in action three times At the battle of Neuf Chateau he received a Prussian bayonet in the side He was wounded by a bullet in the *econd battle at Arras. and at Basentine le Petite, the battle of the Somme, he received severe head wounds from bursting ...

... troupe reached the crest of the rise between the Somme and Bapanme—a aommanding position from which they can look a long way across the premised land. OR Monday the ipfentry fighting in the battle el the Somme wee of minor importance. Vomiterattacks were ...

... soldiers, an Englishman and a Highlander, were sitting in a picture-house not a hundred miles from Glasgow, when the Battle of the Somme film was being shown. At the part when you see the English regiments going over the parapet the English soldier said: ...