... much truth in the jest, for the particular ma chines which gave us such marked superiority over the Germans during the Battle of the Somme in the autumn of 1916 actually made their first appearance as experimental samples in the summer of 1915, and were not ...

... University in 1913, he was study ing at Oxford when war broke out. He joined the Royal Field Artil lery, served in the Battle of the Somme, and in April 1916 received the Military Cross. R .At 9.30 on the 6th the stalls of the Pavilion ravos an filled with ...

... had 17 months' pretty stiff fighting at the front. The biggest fights I took part in were the battles of the Somme last year and this year at the Ancre Battle. Our job is maintaining the cables, which we often repair under the most severe fire-- quite ...