... Germany. Sgt. Croft, of 142, Chediston Street, 2nd Batt. Suffolk Regiment, was severely wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of the Somme in 1916. Although he looks fairly well, he complains bitterly about the treatment dealt by their captors to British ...

... under your command their wannest congratulations on the great triumph achieved by the Allred arms in this. the third battle of the Somme. . . The British Empire sends its heartfelt to you and your moot gallant troops. ...

... also of John Eric Row, 2ng-Lieutenant, Suffolk Regiment, born January 22nd, 1891, killed near Courcelette, in the battle of the Somme, October 29th, 1916, sons of William Benjamin and Emily Row of this parish. Pro patria meet ...

... second division at Leeds on Monday for strangling his unfaithful wife at Huddersfield. He fought at Loos and in the battle of the Somme, and beard of his wife's unfaithfulness while he was in the trenches He came home on leave, and on the last night killed ...

... ago, was wounded when on service in Egypt, and after he had been moved to France in 1916, was severely wounded in the battle of the Somme. He first enlisted in the Norfolks at the time of the Boer war and afterwards served 8 years in the R.G.A. In 1914 he ...

... the beet the commissariat can run to is to supple the men with seltzer water, a poor refreshment in the moist of a battle like the Somme. But there still PPM R to be any quantity of marmalade, which is not the same article we eat in England, but a kind ...

... TUE WESTERN FRONT. It was in February that the result of the Battle of the Somme became manifest. Begun in the previous summer and tinned until well into the autumn, with capture of many strong position* which the enemy had held for two years, it was ...

... thrice changed bands since the first battle of the Somme. The grave, mays the sergeant, is well kept, and bears • wooden cross, on which is a German inscription, the literal translation being, rests he who, in an air battle on the 3r ...

... EELSALIL A memorial service for Capt. and Adjutant George Ronald Lane, Coldstream Guards, who was killed in action at the battle of the Somme, September 15th. was held In the parish church of Ketole on Saturday afternoon. Capt. Ronald Laos was the only son of ...

... salient during 1915-1910. Ilia was ono of the only two caterpillar units which oporated continuously throughout the battle of the Somme in 1916 and concluded in full working condition. Ho was present at the capture of the Vim, Ridge and was in the unhappy ...

... 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 ...

... the presence of the Council, with the Military Medal awarded for bravery in carrying ammunition to the fiat at the Battle of the Somme. Married the same morning, his bride was at the corporal's side. Mr. Horace Wilmer, who recently retired from the position ...