... day of the Great Battle, and his platoon was surrounded by overwhelming numbers. Mr Fyfe, an old Academy boy, was a clerk in the Union Bank. He attested under the Derby Scheme and joined up 1916. He was in tbe first battle of the Somme. About that date ...

... Private Irvine joined the army in April, 1916, and went to the front in July the same year. He was wounded in the battle of the Somme, and after being stationed in Ireland for some time again proceeded. to the front. Previous to enlisting he was • fruiterer ...

... after the series of battles which began 21st March the whole front from Arras down to the Oise has reached a position of stability. Series Gigantic Battles. We are now at the beginning of ApiiL Already have had series of gigantic battles, and have only arrived ...

... changed, and that the Boches were aiming at the goal we have been striving so hafrd to attain since the beginning of the battle of the Somme. At the end the enemy would have no more to show for his efforts and his appalling losses than a more or less big dent ...

... five months in France. His brother David, a promising student of St Andrews iJniversity, was killed in action in the battle of the Somme in October 1916. Private Thomas Skene, Gordon Highlanders, son of the late Mr Thomas Skene, is in hospital in France ...

... BACK TO THE OLD LINE. VIOLENT BATTLE IN FORMER SOMME DEFENCES. BRITISH CLEARING THE GERMANS FROM HAVRINCOURT WOOD. The Allied troops continue to make satis-' factory progress. The British have gained possession of practically the whole of Havrincourt ...

... extreme ■sacrifice on the part of the population. That battle on the Somme was the greatest ever fought in the hist ...

... a mechanic at Manor Works, was called up at the outbreak of war as a nsemtcr of the H.C.8., awl was wounded in the Battle of the Somme two years ago. WOUNDED. Sapper George Salmonl, a Forfarian eerving in the Royal Engineels, ha. 811Stainol a severe wound ...

... fireman on the Railway. He joined in 1915, and has been on active service almost three years. He was wounded in the fisrt battle of the Somme. Our gardens are looking beautiful these fine summer days. The fresh green tints, more vivid and tender than at any ...

... missile from aeroplane. continued to fight until one day misfortune betel him —he was buried alive in a shell hole in the battle of the Somme. This in addition to'some wounds, very seriously affected his general health, and lie was sent home. Everything possible ...

... at cue ooluierß—l tib. Beet Bogle, 8 StiHing Station, has been more than two yean the army, and was wounded in the battle of the Somme. * Private Lindsay was a member of the firm J. & W. Lindsay, drapers, North Street, and was well known in town and district ...

... but by cutting down Prince Rupprecht's command. The new Commandant General O'Berst von who distinsniishpd himself in the Somme battles of 1916. Born in 1850, he got his commission in the 3d Foot Guards Regiment at the age of 17. In the Franco-German War ...