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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 ...
... serving in Chins when war broke out. returning to England and going to France in 1915. He served right through the Battle of the Somme, but v as wounded in the wrist at Viruy Ridge. He returned to France again as late as March last. The chaplain has written ...
... years in the 6th DtnWire. He went to France in September, 1915. and has seen a deal of fighting; he was wounded in the Battle of the Somme, and is now still serving in France. Driver W. A. Drinkwater, R.H.A., is also at the Front. QUIET MEN.—A West Indian ...
... 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 ...
... push in the West, by maa.iug thousands of troops there. and wilding out v:ut quantities of anununition. On July 1 the battle of the Somme opened, and on the fitvt day the German front Iras broken on a distance of sixteen miles. Montauban and Mamets were ...
... 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 ...
... garden of Fulham Palace., Princo George of Saxony, in dreeribing re.,nt review by the Koimer of German• fr.:.h from the battle of the Somme. Nive: They were mere ekek•tonr of compauic•e, battalion., led by calif 3111 N. eome C Ol / 1 1141 nie4 kd by lieutenants ...
... 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 ...
... and obtained his commission in the Queen's in Noi ember. he returned to France and was severely wounded at the first battle of the Somme. He again returned to France in June. 1917. H ie colonel writes : I had known him for over two years and was extremely ...
... in the Battle of the Somme wee forced upon them only by actual defeat ea the ground. This is • strategical retreat, unsling • raw phase of weakness in their deferment eoeditions. It, hew not come to our generals as • surprise. After the Battle of Boom ...
... 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 ...
... 1915. was wounded at Festubert in January. 1916, returned to France as • sergeant in May, 1916. taking part in the Battle of the :Somme, and being awarded the Military Medal for an act of coppiouous bravery. In September. 1916. he returned and secured ...