... daughter of Mr. W. P. Sim, Seascale. Private: Close joined the Lonsdale Battalion. He was wounded on Ist July at the battle of the Somme, and was invalided home. On returning to his military duties he has been on home service at Barrow, Crosby, and Oswestry ...

... his home in Carlisle. He has been pronounced unfit for further military service. He was wounded in the foot at the Battle of the Somme. A mural monument of white Sicilian marble on a slab of slate was unveiled on the gable end of a house in Beech Street ...

... native of ‘Cockermouth,” by the Mayor of New-castle. Private Roney participated in the fighting in Gallipoli and in the Battle ‘of the Somme. In a letter 'to his sister he says:— “One of our biggest achievements was the capture of Thiepval, and it was here ...

... GREATEST BATTLE IN HISTORY. OPENING OF THE GREAT WESTERN OFFENSIVE. The loss expected and prepared for attack by the Germans on the Western Front began on Thursday over a battle line of about fifty miles from north to &oath. The full story is not yet ...