... Portadown. would be grateful for any information oonoerning the fate of his eon. Private James Joyce. who fought at the battle of the Somme witb the R.1.P.. and has since been posted as missing. Private Daniel Livingston, A. 5.0.. eon of Mrs Selina Livingston ...

... , inflicted a series of staggering blows upon the enemy. And now, in September. 1916, we are witnessing the second battle of the Somme, an offensive which in due course will complete the work we began two years ago. Everywhere the enemy is on the defensive ...

... Ulster at the Somme. SIR CONAN DOYLE’'S TRIBUTE. In the course of a detailed story of the battle of the Somme, which commences in the current number of the * Strand Magazine,” Sir A. Conan Doyle pays an eloquent tribute to the gallantry and dash of the ...

... by many months of patient labour is an unmistakeable proof of the growing strengthl on tfe side of the Allies. The Battle of the Somme not only shook, but shattered the Germans, and as the ideferred results of the gains then achieved hundreds of square ...

... Faugh-a-Bal'aghs raised in his native county on the formation of the Ulster Division, and took part in the opening of the Battle of tne Somme on Ist fuly, 1016, and the victorious advanc> on the Messines-Wytschaete Ridge on 7th June last. Mr. James Matthews ...

... no less, when all is known, will be found to have done magnificrently. The ' • Times, in a leading article on the battle of the Somme says— The new army are better than we have dared to hope. The heroism and selfsacrifice of the Ulstermen in particular ...

... the first appearance in action of the tanks. They led the great British attack on 15th September, 1916, during the battle of the Somme, and gave an excullent a.ccount of themselves, one tank being instrumental in capturing the village of Flers. { who ...

... Private Richard Sherman, Montague Street, has died from wounds received is &Woo. His brother Ephraim was killed at the battle of the Somme in Jaly, 1916. Private Bettie Fry, son of Mr H. Fry, Carleton Street, has bees wounded in action. Sergeant-Major Thomas ...

... the country and getting on with the war. They may console themselves with the refieetioa that the film showing the Battle of the Somme is vastly more interesting. It is, indeed. a wonderful production. It enables the ordinary persan to see war as it really ...

... (Sunday) is the anniversary of the battle of the Somme. The unparalleled acts of heroism and bravery which were carried out by the Ulster Division in the great offensive move• ment which commenced on the Western battle front on the let July, 1916, thrilled ...

... Pnrtadown, hoe been awarded the Military Medal for bravery on the field. His brother was killed on July let, 1916. at the battle of the Somme. Sergeant J. Harper, • former oonstable of the R.1.C., who was well-known in Portadown, is a primesr of war in Germany ...

... never seen a small one. I em not seeking to dispraise oar own men by oomparison ; far from it. In the pictures of the Battle of the Somme (which have been missed by the people who are too good or too superior to go to the !mien* nothing is more striking ...