... HISTORIC BATTLEFIELD RELICS. The table on which Sir Douglas Haig planned the battle of the Somme, guns of all kinds and sizes, British and German trench signs, scale relief maps and a host of other interesting battlefield relics will be shown at the first ...

... going through his course of instruction was promoted lancecorporal. He then went to France, where he took part in the Battle of the Somme. In November, 1916, he obtained his commission, and was gazetted to his own old regiment. During his training he proved ...

... Britain Overseas ” and ” The Pageant of English Literature ”) has given a bright and vivid account of events from the Battle of the Somme to the end of 1916. The book has a good coloured frontispiece, of a Britis seaplane tracking a submarine, with numerous ...

... stripes, he explained that he was wounded three times in the battle of the Somme, and as to his decorations, he said he won the D.C.M. and the Military Medal on one day at the secdnd battle of Ypres. He was taken to the police station, and on the following ...

... resources of modern scientific warfare had been employed. This retreat was the result of the Allied success at the Battle of the Somme, which had driven so wide and deep a wedge into the German defensive system that it was endangered both to north and ...

... the concert was a song, capitally rendered by Mr. George Eames, a discharged soldier who had lost his sight at the Battle of the Somme. All the artistes taking part did excellently, but special reference mast be made to the efforts of Miss Lilian Hanford ...

... later on Director of the Tank Supply Department under the Ministry of Munitions. The Tanks made their debut at the Battle of the Somme in September, 1916, and on October 1, 1916, Colonel Stern became Director-General of the Mechanical Warfare Supply ...

... kinds, which have never yet heen seen save by the privileged few. The table on which Sir Douglas Haig planned out the Battle of the Somme is among them, with *“signs ~ taken from ...

... later on Director of the Tank Supply Department under the Ministry of Munitions. The Tanks made their debut at the Battle of the Somme in September, 1916, and on October 1, 1916, Colonel Stern became Director-General of the Mechanical Warfare Supply ...

... October number of this periodical is only now to hand; it contains a very clear and eminently instructive article on the Battle of the Somme, by Captain A. V. Gompertz, R.E., in which he has succeeded in being brief without sacrifice of any important features ...

... Military Medal t o s er vant, Eagle, of the Worcester., now attached to a local battalion, for gallantry dtuing the battle of the Somme. Sergeant Eagle had the added for further gallantry in March, 1917. He stayed behind in the German front line trenches ...

... feature of the concert was a song, capitally rendered by Mr. George Eames, a discharged soldier who lost his sight at the Battle of the Somme. All the artistes taking part did excellently, but special reference must be made to the efforts of Miss Lilian Hanford ...