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... Doors open 2, commence 2.30. . Full Programme. MONDAY, JANUARY Bth-3 NIGHTS and Matinee Mednesday, Jan. 10th. “THE BATTLE of the SOMME.” PRICES: §D., 10D, 18.2 D,, 185 D, including Tax. Booking no extra charge, at the Hall between 12 to 2, and 6 to 9 ...
... Gallipoli, was invabded home wrh enteric. Soon after his recovery, he went to France and in the later stages of the Battle of the Somme, was wounded and awarded the Military Cross. Ho was in the Royal Air Service when, & month ago, uhe incdent oocurred ...
... Fusiliers, only son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Hargrave, 32. Mikonetreet, Halifax, who was reported killed in action in the Battle of the Somme, October Teh, 1316, aged 28 years. “A sorrow too deep for words™ ‘ ...
... pleasure of seeing him home on ten days' leave. On going back again he re-joined the Regiment, and waas wounded in the hig battle on the Somme. He was buried by a shell and had to be dug out by his comrades. He owes his life to his steel helmet, which, when he ...
... enlisted in ihe Queen's Westtninster Rifles early in the war, He was roported killed in July, 1916, at Gommecourt, in the Battle of the Somme, and hw wife received the ondinary official notificeeation of hws death Two nonths later she got another Mtter from ...
... in order to serve his King and country, and eacrificed his life while lead’ ing hia men in a gallant charge in the battle of the Somme. He gave his life that we might live, o eurely such a noble spirit should be handad down to posterity in the shape of ...
... father and four brothera all made the supreme sacrifice on the same day--Jlnly 1. 1916 in the first advance at the battle of the somme, when they came under the murderous machinegun fire of the enemy. They were all in the 7th Queen’s R.W.S. Regiment, ...
... during the day. Our troops are now fighting' in Santerre, “ the country over which the French soldiers fought during the battle of the Somme in 1916, and of which every ruined village is familiar to many of the officers. ' The line reached this afternoon. runs ...
... uarre. . Septamber 6th, 1915, German offensive in Ceutral Poland. Ruesians repulse attacks. ~ September 6th, 1916. Battle of the Somme. German counter-attack in Leuze Wood repulsed. Russian advance in Galicia. Lemberg Railway seized. Halicz in flames ...
... in the trenches, having enlisted in September, 1914, and had seen service m Gallipoli, Egypt, and Trance. During the battle of the Somme last July he was invalided home, suffering from gas poisoning and trench fever, and was sent to St. Luke’'s Hospital ...
... Hindeuburg’s strategic reireat was a surprise. Weashor favoured thé secrecy of the with drawal, which was the result of the battle of the Somme and a precaut xoumtbo Allied offensive. The enemy wi hoping to return again, and indeed he did return. We ook only a ...
... Ernest. —John S. Smithies. SMITH In proud and ever fragrant re: membrance of our dear son Dan, killed Auguet 3rd, 1816, Battle of the Somme Mr and Mrs. Giles Smith, Boothtows- Agknewledzments. TWEED—Mr. Tweed and family beg ® thank all relatives and friends ...