... Corps and afterwards received a commission. Ile subsequently transferred to the Irish Guards and was wounded at the battle of the Somme. On the Ith July last he was sketching a position when struck by shrapnel, front the effects of which he died. ...

... third year of the war that. having learned painfully aid imperfectly how to do it, we began to beat the Germans, The battle of the Somme began thirteen months ago. During those thirteen months the British and French armies have captured 1711,000 German ...

... wan a gallant and bravo officer, of whom we all may In, justly prowl. He died in battle. He gave bin life for his country. He could do no more. In tin, battle in the Somme he fought bravely with his regiment —the 7th betoken. He then entered the Flying ...

... study of the early months of war on the West, and the charge by squadrons of the Dragoon (Wards and Deccan Horse in the battle of the Somme, and, more recently still, the presence of mounted cavalry patrols in open green fields and undamaged villages well ...

... 0. Costello, manager of the Hibernian Bank. Tullamore, whose Kal- Dnt son. Lieut. T. D. Costello, was killed at the battle of the Somme, on Ist July, 1016. Colonel Costello won his V.C. some years ago in the Malakand Pass in the North-West Provinces. At ...

... next great battle on the Western from which. for a long time, has been expected. Their anxiety, however. is nothing eon,. pared with that of the Germans. soh.. dread a repetition on a larger and a grander scale of the battles or the Somme, of the Ancre ...