... clerk at Messrs. Tilling and Stevens', joining up in July last year. He was wounded by shrapnel on July Ist in the battle of the Somme, and is now at Gravesend Hospital,, making satisfactory progress, • . —— - •..-. . . .• • .- •. .. .•.•.•.• .• ...

... No Man's land. After that we used the bayonet and they didn't give us no more vexatiousness. It is evident that the battle of the Somme is going to add some fresh household words to our war. vocabulary. Wipers is a veteran by this time. Plugstreet, ...

... IHE VERDUN FRONT Apart from the reference the* battle on the* Somme*, the French communiques issued during the week-end contained the following; Saturday. 3 p.m. On the from north ol Verdun violent artillery struggle took place*, notably in the* sectors ...

... point, 'rut once that point is reached events may travel with dramatic swiftness. One interesting feature . of the battle of the Somme has beeaf the return in some portions of the dreg—only a very temporary return it - is true —to .the conditions of field ...

... Essex Regiment; with men of Tho Queen’s. There were, he says, a dozen Balaclavas, and in future men will speak of the battle of the Somme as they now speak of Waterloo, cr Albucra or Badajox. HISTORIC EAST SURREY FOOTBALLS. know now' that story the East ...

... TO-DAY’S BATTLE DESPATCHES. FRANCE AND BELGIUM. TO-DAY’S OFFICIAL. BRITISH FROM 1 . HEAVY NIGHT ATTACKS. ENEMY FOILED WITH HEAVY LOSSES. FRESH PROGRESS MADE. (FRENCH.) SOUTH THE SOMME. OUR POSITIONS EXTENDED. Eneniy Again Capture Thiaumont. Paris, Tuesday ...

... (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 ...

... 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 ...

... Early Closing Thursday at 1 o'clock. PROGRESS OF THE BATTLE, THE ENEMY'S COUNTER-ATTACKS, PARIS, Friday. The genii-official statement issued last nii says : The first stage of the Battle of the Somme has come to an end after continuing uninterruptedly ...

... high pressure, having its full complement of 1,000 patients. Half that number was received in three days after the battle of the Somme began, and but for the numerous discharges and transferences of men to convalescent camps, &e., the accommodation would ...

... THE SITUATION. MILITARY AND POLITICAL. The war news of the week has been uniformly good front all the battle front& The struggle on the Somme forms one of the peateat and vest bettila in history. and it Ito exaggerition to my that on the result of it ...

... e.—P.A. War Special. TOLD BY MOUNDED. Paris, Tuesday Interviewed by the ““Petit Parisien,’’ on? the wounded in the battle of the Somme says; The heavy artillery pulverised German trench shelters, and it seemed at limes that the German guns were not of ...