... with his master, Sir Percy Laurie, the Assistant Commissioner of Police, this summer. The horse was wounded at the battle of the Somme. This picture was taken in his stable at Scotland Yard. ...

... TOP” MADNESS PLEA ALLEGED MURDER N SOMME ANNIVERSARY WELILINGTON. Monday Between six o'clock and 630 on the morning of September 15. 1916, Hubert Cedric Jepson first went “ over the top ” during the battle of the Somme. Exactly 16 years later at the same ...

... spirit of the Great War which still flames in the heart our Empire. To-day is the anniversary of the beginning of the battle of the Somme in 1916. Shall the ghosts of those men, whom some of us still think of as comrades, rise to mock the British of 1940 ...

... standstill rain and mud All told, over a million men lost their lives in the first Battle of the Somme-420.000 British, 194.000 French and 440.000 Germans In 1918 the Somme became the scene of another bloody offensive that failed Ludendorff. in a frenzied ...

... 24 Germans, at brai, in 18. He was also awarded the Mili- tary Medal for recovering wound from a trench during the battle of the Somme in 1916. His wife and children are in Ireland at Wexford, and Doyle ho to be abie to bring them to England when he finds ...

... King’s KITCHENER INCIDENT Who was really the inventor of the ** the caterpillar-driven armoured car, first used at the battle of the Somme in 1916? This question will come before a King’s Bench Divisional Court on November 24, when Captain Bede the Crown ...

... years since the end of the war they have produced nine volumes. The story of the carnage in France has reached the Battle of the Somme, which took place in July, 1916. The last volume issued dealt with the between tragic blunders at Gallipoli April and ...

... the fate of the other two. “I was in the first battle of the Somme and at that time I had the honour oi meeting Nurse Cavell. I was recom- mended for a lieutenancy. I was in the second battle of the Somme when I was attached to the Sherwood regiment as ...

... value £2 Ba.. a Sating* Bank Ish k. and obtaining by false pre- •bitteificld said that when Tiuioic* Wood, 'it tU battle of the Somme. in 1916. comrade hi* able, was mortally wounded. * id gged Hotter Held to lis>k alter his wife * i two children. B ...

... on the to sound the bell. bell rope, and human agency was required Probably Roger, who was found rider!ess afte> the Battle of the Somme, did not want to spoil his appetite for his dinner. Mr. J. Brabazon Morris, secretary of rter that the horses the home ...

... AT CAMBRAI Before November, 1917, a few tanks had been used in the latter part of the Battle of the Somme in Sep’ and during the Battle of tember, in 1917. At. Paserhendaele tha ernind wee At Passchendaele the ground was quite unsuitable for tanks owing ...

... murdered his wife and two sons in Wellington (N.Z.) exactly 16 years to the minute after he went “over the top” in the Battle of the Somme, has been sen- tenced to death.—Reuter. Poland-Danzig Quarrel.—Poland and the free eity of Danzig have reached a deadlock ...