... Under the arch there was the following inscription In loving memory of the boys who gallantly fought and fell in the battle of the Somme on Ist July, 1916. Preston's Temperance Orange Lodge Band attended. and, after the arch had been erected, played patriotic ...

... calling to mind the gallant conduct of the Ulstermen in the late war, and especially their memorable charge in the battle of the Somme on Ist July, 1916. He thanked God for the glorious victory over the tyrannical Germans, and hoped that the peace which ...

... work of the division in the opening of the Battle of the Somme on Ist July, 1916. and the capture of the Messines Ridge on 7th June, 1917; in their ill-fated attack on 16th August, 1917, during the third battle of Ypres; the clearing of the west bank of ...