... bearing the following inscription:— *ln memory of officers and men, Ist South African Brigade, who fell in action. Battle of the Somme, 1916.** Tlie troops formed up in a hollow square of close column of companies surrounding the memorial. Drums were ...

... Licence was so* wanton here tha the German commander had stamp it out with an iron heel, and after it. dining the battles of the Somme, when the flame war came close to its walls, the French people were sent away. OXE OF THE MEN OF MONS. Its ruined streets ...