... daughters five months ago. He was transferred to the 11th Batt. of the Royal Sussex Regiment, and was taking part in the Battle of the Somme on Julv 2nd when he was severely wounded in the abdomen, and to this he succumbed on the following morning. H. *•' / ...

... who have sided wounded men, the nick, the families of killed or those driven from their homes by invasion. During the battle of the Somme _ north countryman who has just, been invalided home fired point-blank at a German in charge of a machine-gun, but the ...

... organization in Europe. It has been said that Neuve Chapelle and Loco were the initiation of the new British ariniee • the battle s of the Somme has supremely prove d voluntger soldiers to be worthy of the most splendjd British traditions. In reply to a question ...

... the offensive on the Somme. As a matter of fact they do not hinder it in any way. for the French Command, foreseeing the counter-movement, took all the necessary measures to parry it. he day will come when the menace on the Somme will he so urgent that ...

... Prospects on 'the Somme. The storming of the village of Contalmaison on Tuesday night enabled Sea Hato, in a bulletin published on Wednesday, to review the progress made since the great offensive began in the region of the Somme. On a front of eight miles ...

... resumption of the offensive by the British from Thiepval to the point where they link up with the French forces. Before the battle of the Somme can pursue its victorious course it is important that our advance, which was slower in the British sector and speedier ...

... PARIS, JULY 20. An authoritative account of the first phases of the Battle of the Somme from July 1 to July 10 will be published in the French newspapers to-morrow. The semi-official description speaks in the following terms of the union between the French ...

... unknown point ; but once that point is reached events may travel with dramatic swiftness. One interesting feature of the battle of the Somme has been the return in some portions of the area—only a very temporary return, it is true—to the conditions of field ...

... such versions of the various phases of the war the German Government desire to see made public. His dispatches on the Battle of the Somme make especially interesting reading, not for what they say but for what they leave out. He is eloquent the vast number ...

... PERIOD CI CALM. SIXTH MONTH OF BATTLE OF VERDUN. SOMME OPERATIONS. THE TACTICS OF A PRUDENT ADVANCE. Paris, Saturday. Reviewing yesterday's fighting, an expert French commentator says : The Germans, as was to be expected, counterattacked on Thursday et ...

... THE WEEK-END AND AFTER. Tlll‘] BATTLE OF THE SOMME, or, as it may come to be called, the Battle of Péronne, in which our armies took a successful and very glorious part, is possibly only the first operation in a very much larger offensive than has vet ...

... resumption of the offensive by the British from Thiepval to the point where they link up with the French forces. Before the Battle of the Somme can pursue its victorious course it is important that our advance, which was slower in the British sector and spec dice ...