... teplow. Bt>ektß«baa shire, euftrtM tnm shell pas received Guaoar fritch. after nervine eight months in Battle ef the Somme and months in the Battle of Arrae, vraa invalided home with trench tarer and plenrisv. and vraa in DMpiial eight tnonths. returning ...

... 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 ...

... the tank is a life-saver, and to it has been mainly due the very striking difference between our losses in the first battle of the Somme and the third, which Sir Douglas Haizg opened with his brilliant surprise attack on Aungust gth. . . . The expenditure ...

... Laving been .sit in Pehisatiue previous to going to France fur the around time legit Spring. He had been wounded at this battle of the Somme. In earn he was employed it the V ctoria Spinning mill end was nembae the Lads' (lob at St. Chad's Fula. The faintly ...

... single he joined colours in November 1914 after training was the where he contracted dysentery recovering was sent to in battle of the Somme 1st 1916 Private Smith was brought England was in a hospital at Halifax Later was drafted to Salonica he liad spent ...

... big advance of General Rawlinson’s troops north-east St. Quentin, are near the source the Somme, east of Leadins, and it r.xcy said the the battles of the Somme are finished and have passed into history . It was the fear of encirclement on this side which ...

... 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 ...