... OUEEN SEES SOMME FILMS The Press Bureau is informed that Captain E. Distin Maddick had the honour of submittiz to ueen Alexandra this week the o cial Ww ar Office films of the battle of the Somme, in which her Majesty was deeply interested. ueen Alexandra ...

... Douglas Haig’s This is the second time Captain Shew- ring has been thus honoured, the first being on the occasion of the battle of the Somme. Captain Shewring, who was articled to the engineer at the West Brom- wich Corporation Gasworks, enlisted in the Birmingham ...

... the headquarters in Exeter. It was while serving with the Devonshire Regiment as a lance-corporal during the second battle of the Somme that Major Onions won the V.C. With another man he was responsible for the capture of 200 prisoners. Major Onions had ...

... In this rush to do his bit was following the example of his father, who in the last war was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Somme when only 18.\ PRIVATE L. BEDFORD Alleged admission in Birmin • -lujir-rnn- ...

... in case the Germans were com- pelled to fall beck. Then he went to Serbia. first appearance on this:front was at the battle of the Somme. During this he commended the “second German army. Later he went to command the fifth army in front of Verdun Now he ...

... woman in England who would not do anything she could to help the men at the front They had fought a battle before the battle of the Somme. They had battled to raise the working condi- tions. The women must see to it that while the men were away that that ...

... the Battle of the Somme in 1916, lost all but one officer and 30 men GNR. TEW. “They were among the earliest of the Territorial regiments in Britain to be converted to anti - aircraft artillery. All units of the 68th had experience in the Battle of Britain ...

... ‘oar 180 Worvemie:s, sou of ee Foad, wick, 8, Rosefie.d- in action, Pean, of the i ving died fro-s Warvicks, 18 Ms ha battle of the Somme. His home was at Wells-street, Private Herbert Bornes, 8th Sen'h Sta ffor re Regiment, was in action ys the ning of ...

... BIRMINGHAM V.C. HAS A MESSAGE FOR THE OLD BRIGADE GEORGE ONIONS, who won the V.C. when a lance-corporal at the Battle of the Somme, and now commands detachment of a Birmingham home defence battalion, has a message. It is: “COME ALONG, THE OLD BRIGADE ...

... THE GERMAN LOSSES Assuming, according to one estimate, that there were-122 Gernian divisions dur- ing the battle of the Somme, the French and-ourselves had defeated something like a half the total German forces, or some- thing like a million men in all ...

... intelli; ce iD assum ing the world can be misled by the s pectacular of overrunning imperfectly - fended Verdun and the battle of the Somme have Tr oved our power, whereas the efforts ot ackensen have proved devoid of rea] ad- vantage. It is not the map the ...

... he lost his eldest son, killed in action at the battle of the Somme in July, 1916. Ue never spared himself, and his constitution, undermined by 3} years of most incessant toil, had little strength to battle with the which overcame him. He gave his life ...