... was granced a corn- I missior, and gazetted to the Manchester Regt He was severely Ivounded en the first day of the battle of the Somme. July Ist; 1916, on which , lay one of his Mothers, Lieut. S. R. Allen. of the Manelicsters, was killed. After about ...

... his th Pala, and fought through ell the return from England. Company-Sergeantrank of Q.M.S he was recommended for battles of the Som.me. After holding the - Major Hurley, writing to the bereaved a wile, ri ! • • The sa d news of the death. commission ...