... Scouts on the Somme, March, 1918 Such a scene as this must have been of frequent occurrence of late days, the watchful soldiers keeping their vigil by the wide, tree-fringed meres In the valley of the Somme British official picture The Somme near Peronne ...

... stood second to none for several years in the hockey world. Lt. R. Gerard Garvin, who was killed a fortnight ago in the battle of the Somme, was the son of Mrs. J. L. Garvin and of the editor of The Observer. The young officer had acquired his father's taste ...

... soon made sergeant; he then obtained a commission in the Manchester Regt., and was wounded on July 7tli, 1916, in the battle of the Somme, being made temporary Captain. Sec.-Lt. T. M. Mathieson MacBeth was born in Leith in 1896, and educated partly at Trinity ...

... the School, and an ever-to-be-remembered name at Tonbridge as the glorious subaltern of sixty-eight who died in the battle of the Somme, was in the Tonbridge XI. in the 'sixties. The 'seventies produced W. B. Pattisson in the XI., '69, '70, '71, and captain ...

... which it is my privilege to visit have not enough money to buy a postage stamp some of them have been there since the Battle of the Somme some have only one leg, some have none, and also no arms. It makes one a bit sick to think of the inequality of things ...

... 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 ...

... many people will thank Heaven, but more especially the authoress. She might so easily have killed off Rollo in the Battle of the Somme, whereas he died, in comparative peace, by drowning. Also her selfish but very lifelike brute of a husband Driedre, ...

... 'pres. Sir Douglas Haig has led his troops through the hard fighting of the last two-and-a-half years, through the battles of the Somme up to the great forward attacks which clinched le final victory, the hammer blows which Marshal Foch declared were ...

... 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 apart ...

... 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 ...

... Despatch Runner one of the most trying and dangerous duties of the British Tommy. I took a very active part in the Battles of the Somme, Messines, Ypres and Cambrai, and was fortunate enough to have the Military Medal bestowed upon me for my work as a ...

... London after the Push At the hospital where the above view was taken some 300 r slightly wounded soldiers back from the battles near the Somme are being tended. This hospital has its roof covered with a L. little colony of houses where the men can benefit by ...