BATTLE OF THE SOMME
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... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. = See Front Page. = LR LT L =T T Bducational. .LETCHWORTH Modern School for Girls, NORTON WAY SOUTH. Head Mistress - Miss Cartwright, M.A (Of Newnham College, Cambridge, and former Head Mistress of ...
... N A THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME.—In Vol. XVI. of Nelson’s History of the War, by John Buchan, there is a very careful, and withal a brilliant, account of the Battle of the Somme, treated in four stages, with very many maps. The appendices include Sir Douglas ...
... nothing either in the way of strength of body, width of mind, or power of character? And yet at this present time the Battle of the Somme is reminding us what splendid material these boys would be if they received for a short time an adequate training. If ...
... general Itrtp tat at Rouen, was invalided home and went to Buielh Well* hospital in Wales, returned France, and the Battle of th« Somme, 1916, he was this time in tho le.'t arm. Several months in England rendered bun fit again for active service and now ...
... enable the last man and the last rifle and gun to be sent to the front. After a stirring speech by Major Gilbertson, the Battle of the Somme film was shown and ' concluded the meeting. ...
... the second battle of Verdun. The fifteenth volume will describe the great Allied offensive. All is made clear by maps. The price of these volumes is Is. 3d. each. Issued as a separate book, we have now Mr. John Buchan’s The Battle of the Somme, First Phase ...
... forme-sly worked with lini in tlio business, lie also jo.ned tJic Army and after going through the grim ordeal of the great battle of tire Somme was stricken with nerve shock and typhoid fever and s speech for some mouths. has been several hevpitAl- this country ...
... 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 ...
... Beatty’s old ship H.M.S. ‘“Lion,” which is famous for the part it has taken in the battles of Dogger Bank, Jutland, etc. Pte. Lilley joined the ship just after the Jutland battle, prior to which he had been training with the land forces. His brother, R. C. ...
... from three million to twenty million bars. Among the attendance at the Hitchin Picture: drome on Wednesday, when ‘ The Battle of the Somme ** was being shown, was a small party of Letchworth people of the conscientious objector fraternity. One of them, when ...
... and after eight weeks’ training was sent to France. He was first in action at Neuve Chappelle, and went through the Battle of the Somme, Vimy and Messines Ridges, Arras and Ypres. He was slightly wounded in the head and nose at Arras in March, 1916, but ...