... wife on Wednesday, stated that he was getting on very favourably. Private Turner was also wounded last year in the battle of the Somme. He mobilised with the Bth Worcesters in August, 1914, and later entered the Grenadier Guards. Before the war he was ...

... L .Cpl. Gilbert Thompson Michell, of . the 18th Manchester Ftegimant, the Military Medal for gallant condom at the battle of the Somme on July Bth, 1916, mhos he fell action. He was the son of Mr. John Nichol', of Bradford, lam of Halifu, and (mare of ...

... appointed first Qirartermasteri Sergeant. His sixteen months' servioe the , front included, amongst other engagements, the Battle of the Somme. In May last he was nominated by his commanding officer for a com- mission and proceeded to a cadet school. ...

... since 1914 in Germany; Jaraos is in Palestine; Robert, who in France, was wounded on tho knees machine gun fire in' the battle of the Somme. This the second distinction earned a Marjoribanks boy, Sergeant Joseph having won the Military Medal. ...

... voluntecred for active service in the present war, he went through many engagements in France, including the famous battle of the Somme, He obtained the rank of bombardier, and has recently been invalided out of the Army. Mr, am{ Mrs. Cheesman received ...

... 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 ...

... prolonged as denote unusual activity. Tommy calls it strafling.** For some time prior to the opening of the wonderful battle of the Somme, in June of last year, there wa* a good deal of intermittent straffing.** The British had been keeping the enemy tenterhooks ...

... 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 ...

... France on 20th November from wounds received in action. He was 20 years old, and had been previously wounded at the Battle of the Somme, and also suffered from trench fever. His brother, Private Wm. H. Callister, as a prisoner in Germany, MANX NAVAL SEAMAN ...

... his distinctions: “Military Medal —For gcod work in the manner in which handled his platoon in the early months the battle of the Somme. D.C.M. For distinguishing himself by searching out and disposing of enemy snipers when his company was in an advanced ...

... h;rho Lord «ayor spoka y's courage whilst on_servie..mmhfly at the battle of Loos. Shortly after he went to Belgium, and on his retura to France he took part in the battle of the Somme, where ho s ed four bullet 'wounds and narrowly losing his life. After ...

... Herts men he took part nearly every action of importance from the first battle of Ypres to the battle of Loos, and as a brigadier he fought in the early stages of the battle of the Somme. So that has seen much of the Western war as most men. ...