... first time in England, some mechanical electric light set pieces, concluding with a realistic repreiwatalion of the Battle of the Somme. The firework display, which i s to commence at 8.30. is to be preceded by a pertormanc.• by the Harland and Silver ...

... late Field-Marshal Earl Haig, the inside history of the Great War on the Western Front from August 1914 to the first Battle of the Somme. Sensational revelations were made. Great controversies were explained. Blunt attacks were made on several Allied leaders ...

... A PUSH FILM. SOMME BATTLE SHOWN IN LIVERPOOL. Those whose business it is run picture palaces had an opportunity, to-day, at the Clayton-square house, Liverpool, of seem? the Battle of the Somme recorded by the camera men. . They, turn, will duly make ...

... late Field-Marshal Earl Haig, the inside history of the Great War on the Western Front from August r 914 to the first Battle of the Somme. Sensational revelations were made. Great controversies were explained. Blunt attacks were made on several Allied leaders ...

... most brilliant among corps commanders. During the battle of the Somme the Canadians fought on the right of Sir Hubert Gough's Fifth Army and did notable work. . . Their culminating achievement came the battle of Arras April 9, 1917, when they stormed in one ...

... last evening.* An attack near the Somme Was begun to-day, says a correspondent. Perhaps this was the gunfire heard South-east coast towns to-day. We captured 116 square miles of ground in the first four days of the battle, against only 44, square miles which ...

... ', and on one occasion in France was instrumental, with his company, in breaking up a German attack. He was in the battle of the Somme, and was awarded the M.C. BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH He lay between life and death for weeks, and was subsequently deaf ...

... wife gave /10.009 for founding the Chair of Geology. This was their memorial t•. their son, George, who fell In the battle of the Somme. In the year 1919 they founded and endowed the nisi.. of Oceanography. Sir William Herdman is recognised as one of the ...

... truth from them, it is surprising how much they appear to know People say they could almost gather thi progress the battle of the Somme by the change the demeanour of the Boches They made no bones about their apprehen noite at the prospect of facing another ...

... SITUATION IN THE WEST IS NOW DEVELOPING RAPIDLY, AND THE REARGUARD ACTIONS ARE VERY MUCH IN THE NATURE OF A REAL BATTLE BETWEEN THE SOMME AND THE OISE AND ABOVE LA FERE. THE POSITION '3 THIS:— ' , The French advance has been so unexpectedly rapid that ...

... appointed military director of cinematograph operations on the Western Front. Among his well-known films was The Battle of the Somme. After the war he was attached to the 'British Embassy se Washington on intelligence work and afterwards returned to ...

... DARING. OUR FLYING MEN'S PART IN SOMME BATTLE. The Press Association's special correspondent with the British Headquarters in the Field in France, in a message dated July 8, says :—When the history the battle of the Somme comes to be written in its true ...