... -street, Liverpool, who was the South Lancashire Reg.ment, was killed on the sth inst. He was wounded in July, 1916, the battle of the Somme, and returned to France.in April last. was employed Goodlass. Wall's. Seeistreet, and was a member St. Francis Xavier's ...

... G. Wilson, C.M.G., designer of the original mark IV. tanks, and Captain J. Wakley, who lost a leg in the first tank battle on the Somme, superintended the preliminary trials on the L.M.S. railway, Preston, to-day, of two giant 300 horse-power petrol l ...

... When I was seventeen I joined the public school,' battalion and went to France, and on July 1, 1916, 1 had a private battle on the Somme with four of the enemy. CUT OFF FROM COMPANY. I had got cut off from my company slid found myself about twenty yards ...

... The German newspapers state that during the month of July 20.000,000 shells exploded in the German limes during the battle of the Somme. The Munich Naehriohten states that the applications for compensation u«rh K out of damage resulting from the Russian ...

... British Resume The Offensive To-day; Battle Going Well For ©or Troops. ■ ■ SIR DOUGLAS HAIG REPORTS THE ATTACK, WHICH WAS BEGUN THIS MORNING. A BRIEF NOON-DAY MESSAGE. DETAILS YET AVAILABLE OF THE RESUMPTION OF THE BATTLE; LONDON VIEWS, GERMAN SEA RAID DISASTER ...

... e of this historic phrase will be recalled by the manic thou. sands who survived the Battle of the Somme, which reached its tenth anniversiry yesterday. This battle, probably tho most terrible in history, Imbed cos wed off for about four mends, and one ...

... , broken by your troops. Yet the battle of the Somme, when we had perhaps! ; little more than half our present gun- j power, lasted nearly six months; the; | battle Arras is not yet three weeks old, ; and the battle of even leas. At ; one time Berlin's ...

... Lancashire v. Warwick—A Batt A correspondent asks when the battle of the Somme began. It was July 1, 1916. Many people believe it was July 16—this confusion arises through the date being off-handedly styled July 'l6 —meaning 1916. Talking ofArmy matters: ...

... be responsibility of conducting the that big offensive of the British Army. It was he who w in charge of the great battle of the Somme in Jul 7. 1916. when the Foart. Army 'broke into the German positions at the cost of exceedingly heavy casualties. At ...

... ALLIES' HAUL. 55,800 PRISONERS IN THE SOMME BATTLE. Tho expert French commentator writes as follows:— All our gains have been held, and even developed by a aeries of successful local actions. One of these made us masters of an isolated house which had ...

... SOMME BATTLE INJURY An inquest wag held at Wallasey, thin afternoon, on Charles Rowlands. aged Cor- 150. an employee in the Wallasey poratiou Cleansing Deepartmeut, of 21 Church-road. SeaCombe. The widow said that her husband received a bullet wound in ...

... Wireless Press message from Paris to-day says.-— The Strassburger Post mournfully remarks: — e must not expect the battle of the Somme to cease until the Allies are short of munitions, and that contingency has not yet arisen. The war is no longer a matter ...