... tlnxnv'h the battle of Loos 25th September without scratch. Previous to enlisting was employed at the Fife Linoleum Works. Private Geo. Bain, Gordon Highlanders, son-inlav has also been wounded in the back and leg in the battle of the Somme on Ist July ...

... grounds. In one Ward we visited were quit© a number of men who had been knocked out,” they expressed it, at the groat Battle of the Somme. To each and all the chief regret seemed be that they had been obliged retire soon from the field of action. That was ...

... effects should be to malio the German positions on the Tjiiopval plateau loss tenablo . What fresh developments the battle of the Somme may still reveal we do . not know , but wo are convinced that the nation reposes complete confidence in the judgment ...

... from those bombarded villages . ¦ From north to south is an irregular chain of watchful observation balloons ! The battles of the Somme aro not , of course , so easily witnessed as those which can bo seen from the heights around Verdun , but they aro ...