... 9th Royal Irish Rides iWest Belfast Volunteers), and was second in command of that battalion at the opening of the Battle of the Somme on tat July. 19t9. He carried out the reoccupation and consolidation of the line on the following day, and was special ...

... of the whole Somme battlefield. Thierwal, by every law of defensive incident warfare, was an i mpugnable posi- And what happened I think it can beat be ileseribed in the words (4 Sir A. Conan Doyk, who in bit book on the battle (A the Somme• pays a tribute ...

... Today it not only a day of thanksgiving, hot it is a day of sacred memory for Ulster, fr just three years ago in the battle of the Somme many of her bravest wins fought and fell. No finer achievement wan done anywhere by any handy of men during the whole ...

... em: to go away for a spell rnd return was to be re;ze 1 with a nausea akin to seasickness. On one occasion during the Battle of the Somme, I saw a Staff Officer, while. making a reconnais%nice. reel and fall down in a decd faint, at the sight of a dead German ...

... Bangor man, Bachelor of arts and of lingineering, who had tuned through Gallipoli aryl been severely wounded at the Battle of the Somme --of proud anti glorimatt andsadmemory-•was one of the applicants, but war not slimed even to sit at the examination ...