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... %Ks, Martinis ant Nu*. DI/ann. On the 22rd inst., killed at the battle of the Somme, George William Giles, of the Bth Royal Berke Regt., second son of Alfred Gilee, Compton Terrace, Wallingford, aged 24 years. Oa the 26th inst., at sois, wife of Mr. Henry ...
... JATTLE OF THE SOMME. FULL HALF OF THE GERMAN ARMY BEATEN. SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S DISPATCH. The story of the' Battle of the Somme, which lasted from July 1 to November 18, is •told in Sir Douglas Haig's dispatch, which tills sixteen pages of the London Gazette ...
... the best the commissariat can run to is to supply the men with seltzer water, a poor refreshment in the midst of a battle like the Somme. But there still seems to be any quantity of marmalade, which is not the same article we eat in England, but a kind ...
... terrifyii.g effect. It came from as itsproied. variety a flame project9r machine rccommendA by General von Arnim daring the battle of th:. Somme. Men he saw the projection of burning cil bursting out in great waves of liquid fire. A battalion of men wenkl be charred ...
... steadily and surely from day to day, is more significant than any separate incursion through the German Front. The battle of the Somme has emphatically demonstrated British organisation to be markedly superior, in one very important respect, to that of ...
... call this show a battle, still less a victory.' He was a St. Paul's School boy, so he told me. I heard that he died that evening at Pliehrilliers, unthanked by Parliament. The Battle of the Somme has been one of the greatest battles in the history of ...
... the country and getting on with the war. They may console themselves with the reflection that the film showing the Battle of the Somme is vastly more interesting. It is, indeed. a wonderful production. It. enables the ordinary person to see war as it ...
... s t o Boyle.'• The first tank was completed in February, 1916, and the machines made their first aapearance at the Battle of the Somme in the summer of that year. Iltogother we built 2.636 tanks. The engines in the latest type arc of 11119 Corse-power ...
... with similar results. Each of these advances is not so much a battle as a part of one tremendous baltle which the best judps are confident will have greater results than the Battle of the Somme. Germany. as General &mite said the other day, is beaten. and ...
... by the exhaustion of his man-power. How this proem has been going on may be seen in Sir Douglas Haig's story of the Battle of the Somme, in which he says that half the German Army has been engaged, and defeated with enormous loss. Germany has made the ...
... amount of fun. • • • Mr. George N. Barnes, M.P., is responsible for the following sbory : At a Glasgow cinema the Battle of the Somme film was being shown, and sitting aide by side a Highlander sad an English Tommy. When a reel depicting the English ...
... rar:chg., art on the te:enhor 3- /4 LETTER FROM ULSTER. BILFAET, Monday. Ulster Remembers. The ninth anniversary of the Battle of the Somme was commemorated in Belfast on let July. On that date in 1916 the Ulster Division gained undying fame, and in the words ...