... recent vindication of the R.F.C. The Times man stated that we have a mastery in the air hardly less complete than in the Battle of the Somme. Nobody will accuse the Times of being anxious to cover up any aerial short comings of the War Office, so that the ...

... themselves. Of the Tyneside Scottish and Irish Territorial battalions, when they made their debut in the war at the first battle of the Somme, July 16, their advance through the German curtain of fire was described as simply wonderful. They be haved like veterans ...

... Germans. It was the fruits of the Battle of the Somme and of the spear-thrust up the valley of the Ancre. The German fortress-lines which had occupied years in the making were battered through in that long-drawn series of battles, and, as we long ago observed ...

... commissions together. Lieut. Ralph Brown has been missing since the first battle of the Somme in 1916 while Capt. Lindsay Brown, who was dangerously wounded in the same battle, is still serving, and has been awarded the M.C, A fourth brother, Mr. J. Hamilton ...

... edition of the official history of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and covers the ground between the second battle of Ypres to the battle of the Somme. Canada in War-Paint. By Captain Ralph W. Bell. (Dent.) 2s. 6d. This volume is a series of vignettes of ...

... has been fierce and stubborn, rather resembling the long drawn-out struggle which took place round Combles during the Battle of the Somme. Bullecourt occupies a fairly strong position from the military standpoint, lying on one of several low ridges which ...

... in our great war enterprise is roused by the exhibition of the official ^War Films, Britain Prepared, 1 he Battle of the Somme and The Battle of the Ancre.' under the direction of Mr. M. E. Bandman, who has been able to send home more than £8000 for ...

... British Tanks Progressive Improvement and Development of a Midget Type The dramatic appearance of the tanks in the battle of the Somme is now a matter of history. It is T open to question whether it was not an error to bring the landships into action ...

... of War News see p. 187) Mr. H. Perry Robinson, war correspondent for The Times and author of The Turning Point-- the Battle of the Somme, has written a very interesting account of the war correspondent at work in a recent issue of The Nineteenth Century ...

... of an army corps, and in 1916 was in charge of the 10th Army operating on the Somme. The 10th Army took a dis tinguished part in the later stages of the Battle of the Somme, capturing many thousand prisoners and establish ing itself in the southern outskirts ...

... STRIKING A BALANCE A Breathing-Space THE Battle of the Somme has reached the familiar stage at which each side chivalrously concerns itself with the enormous losses of the other. That is usually a stage where offensive aspirations modify themselves in ...

... deficient in inches, but has remark able pluck. I am sure that his athletic training stood him in good stead in the recent battle of the Somme, and it is to be hoped that the famous Irish hockey exponent will soon recover convalescence, and once more be fit to ...