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... MILITARY MEDAL FOR COLCHESTER LAD. Prvt. Claude Alexander, of the Surrey Regi. ment, has won the Military Medal at the battle of the Somme. Prvt. Alexander, whose home is at Myland, Colchester, was with a machinegun, and having advanced somewhat beyond the ...
... Day addressed by General Jofire to the Somme troops aud published yesterday, the expert French commentator says: - It sets forth the object and result of the French offensive. Un the one hand the battle of the Somme has freed Verdun; on the other, band ...
... night the villages were also frequently bombed by acroplanes.” Gl . e A Tho reports of the experience gained in the battle of the Somme (says this German document) un-n'momlf agree as to the necessity for an increased allotment of weapons, means of co ...
... the 4th German Corps, thinks of the British Army is revealed in the course of a voluminous document, dealing with the battle of the Somme and its lessons, which was captured by our troops. It begins by paying a tribute to wur infantry: j “The English infantry ...
... COUNTER-ATTACKS. A good deal of attention is devoted to conntor-‘ attacks. “The experience of the battle of the Somme,” it is stated, “has again and again fully confirmed the long-established principle that a counter-attack must either follow immediately ...
... Your Majesty and to your gallant Armies my heartiest greetings upon their last magnificent achievements in the great battle of the Somme. —Nicholas. ...
... greatest artillery battle of the Somme etill continues. It has spread to the front porth of the Ancre, and has increased south of the Somme, especially on both sides of Vermand- Ovillers. Our curtain fire between the Ancre and the Somme almost everywhere ...
... KELSALE. A memorial service for Capt. and Adjutant George Ronald Lane, (oldstream Guards, who was killed in action at the battle of the Somme, September 15th, was held in the parish church of Keisale on Saturday afternoon. Capt. G. Ronald Lane was the only eon ...
... through. ‘I do this he wouid have (o attack for unother thirty years, provided then that he had sufficient men. The battle of the Somme is costing our enemiss vany bundrod thowsands of men, and therefore more than it is costing us.” Asked whether the | ...
... afterncon in the terms of an ordinary battle. Extending over a front of nearly three leagues, and involving probebly three times as many British troops as were ¢ wgaged at Waterloo, the conflict consisted really of several battles, each with its own distinet tactical ...
... son, Prvt. Fred Thurlow, Suffolk lfi‘ment, has been nufilth.fl‘tflz-fil or rllnt couduct and devotion to duty during the battles on the Somme. ...