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... troops in the front were waiting for them._ . . Colonel Taylor gave a vivid picture of the scene at the period of the battle of the Somme in 1916. It was what he described as the great, crisis in the railways of France. England's services of trains were ...
... country from a troop train en route to Guerfefo, etc., etc, THE BETTER MAN,” TOPICAL BUDGET, Etc., Etc, NEXT WEEK: THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME/’ The Film will be explained by Sergeant F. R. Holmes, of the Highland Light Infantry, by arrangement with the War Office ...
... ROTHERHAM OBSERVANCE. The anniversary of the battle of the Somme was observed at Rotherham yesterday afternoon, when hundreds of people gathered at the Cenotaph in Clifton Park. The Rev. W. T. Pascoe, Vicar Masbro’ St. Paurs_ and honorary chaplain to ...
... home is at Dinnington, has just received from the War Office two medals awarded him for conspicuous bravery at the Battle of the Somme in 1916âthe British Military Medal and the French Medaille Militaire. The latter was for rescuing a wounded French ...
... euld seem that the battle of the Somme ?®out become the battle of the Somme of the Aisnc. According the “Daily Mail's” Amsterdam the German papers of yesterday call attention to the great importance flirt I,ew fighting on the Somme. The ...
... be placed by the ex-Servicemen and Women’s Section of the British Legion, and a service held in commemoration of the Battle of the Somme, 1916 (where so many of our dear comrades fell fighting, for their King and Country). The Service will be conducted ...
... Suicide. Stated to have worried because he had become bald as a result of shrapnel wounds in the head received at the battle of the Somme, Kenneth Arthur Brimley, aged 24, a carpenter, of Roxton St. Neots, Iluntingdon, was found drowned in a pond close to ...
... THE SOMME DUEL. STRONG GERMAN COUNTEROFFENSIVE? PARIS, Monday. The correspondent of the “Liberte” on the Somme front says : The mutual bombardment noted in the last British roriimuniijite is one of the most violent since the beginning of the battle of ...
... field of battle. Members of the Twelfth Club send their tribute in the following notice: —“In memory, ever glorious, of those members of the Sheffield City Battalion (and other units) who made the supreme sacrifice the great battle of the Somme, July Ist ...
... 1916 there was the battle of the Somme, In 1917, when the British Army had obtained the) necessary munitions, they gained Vkmy, Cambrai, Paechendaele. In 1918 there was tilt:. Somme. Then Vipers Bretonneux, tile crossin.i of the Somme, cf the Canal du NOrd ...
... War broke out he joined the Royal Engineers on 2 September, 1911, and went to France the following May. During the battle of the Somme he was wounded at Albert on August, 1918, and was in hospital for 18 months. He had shrapnel in his left leg, and today ...
... SOMME MEMORIAL SERVICES No effort is being spared to accommodate so far as is possible the large number of those anxious to attend the sendees at Sheffield Cathedral to-morrow commemoration of the battle of the Somme. The chief places of honour on the ...