... FIERCE BATTLES ON THE SOMME. ••SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS.” The long-expected British and French offensive the Western front has hegon, after a stupendous bombardment lasting over a week. The attack began at 7.30 on Saturday morning north and south of the River ...

... BATTLE OF SOMME. Tlst battle of the Boonne, to ue a conveniently ounprelseneive term for the great thrust which the British and French armies are making, together with the operations of our Russian and Italian allies, has filled our newspapers and our ...

... 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 of ...

... CAPTAIN RAYMOND LTTTEN Captain Raymond Litten, Royal Berkshire Regiment, was killed on Saturday,' July Ist, the battle of the Somme, when leading his company into action. He was the only son of the late Tobias Raphael Litten and Mrs. Litten, of 21, Pembridge ...

... (Newbury). Pte. F. Sawyer. 16'19 ?Newbury). Pte. D. H. Thomas. 18010 (Neath). WAR ITEMS. NEW WORDS. It is emdant that the Battle of the Somme is going to add some fresh household words to our war vocabulary. Wipars, Plugerest, Booloo, and ♦rmintears ...

... The Battle of the Somme. Those painful and accurate penmen, the news-writr& as Swift has it, are now unmurled on the Western front, and are hexing the time of their lives. Since the British an French advance began they have poured out columns of brilliant ...

... short training on Salisbury Plain the battery proceeded to Egypt and thence to Praises, where at is part io the great battle on the Somme. On June 29th Captain Hermort-Hodge received terrible Injuries to the face, hack and head from shrapnel. and hey is ...

... om Division e Berkshires are conspicuous by their absence.’ Mr. West's remarks apply to the ¥2th Division. ! In the battle of the Somme the Beekshires in the/, 18th Division did equally well. Why should not have the praise which is duesto -them, a which ...

... Caversham at the «I;nt.h of their second son, Gunner Refmafi Lusty, R.F.A., who was killed in action on July ¢ in the battle of the Somme. The captain, writing to his mother, said: “I 1 am v sorry to have to tell you that your son, who ha:.Zoen in the battery ...

... Caversham, the death of thoir second son, Gunner Reginald Lusty, R.F.A., who was killed in action on July 9th in the battle of the Somme. The captain, writing to his mother, said: I am very sorry to have to tell you that your son, who hae been in the battery ...

... who' have been wounded. Second Lieutenant Frank D. Withers, Somerset Light Infantry, who was killed last month in the battle of the Somme, entered the College and Wantage Hall on October 2nd, 1912, an education student. He had previously been educated at ...

... or leg and wounding him severely. Sec.-Lieut. Frank D. Withw, Somerset Light Infantry, who was killed in My in the battle of the Somme, entered the College and Wantage Hall OD October 2nd, 1912, as an education student. He had previously been educated ...