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... appreciation of the many gallant deeds performed by Ulstermen during the war. I need but call to mind the opening attack of the Somme battle in 1916, when men of the 36th (Ulster) Division, pressing forward with the utmost courage and determination, fought their ...
... SECOND BATTLE OF THE SOMME. A striking feature of the fifth volume Sir 'Arthur Conan Doyle History of the British Campaign in 1918,’' just published, is his defence Lieut.-General Sir Hubert Gough, who commanded the Fifth Army in the second battle of the ...
... Brigade. This officer commanded the Bth Battalion Royal Irish Rifles (East Belfast Volunteers) at the opening of the battle of the Somme on Ist July, 1916. Distinguished Service Order. Major George Noel Chadwick Martin, M.C., B/74th Brigade, R.F.A., son ...
... loving memory of M,ic( lure. Lieutenant 10th Battalion Royal Bnii«kiiliug Fusiliers {Ulster Division), who fell ‘ion the battle of the Somme, l«t July, 1016. youngest son the late Robert MacClure, arid MacClure, Beech wood-avenue, and grandof ih« lute Stevenson ...
... command of the Ist Battalion the Rifles went into the trenches on 25th June, me, less than week before the opening the Battle of the Somme, and had a trying time owing to the German tion the preliminary bombardment and to the weather, which was very bad. ...
... campaign, notably in'the Battle of Le Cateau and the crossing the Marne. They suffered considerable losses on 22nd October, 1914, when the Germans, after crossing the Dys, stormed their trenches, and again during the fire Battle of Ypres. Amongst the N ...
... of the whole Somme battlefield. Thiepval, every law of defensive modern warfare, was an impregnable position. And what happened , I think it can best described in the words Sir A. Conan Doyle, who in his book on the Battle of the 'Somme pays a tribute ...
... association with what it levins “civil and religious” lihcwty, there was this; year added Thiepval. with reference to the battles of the Somm . How these places conic to he identified in the Orange mind with the establishment of “civil and rcl liberty” is mystery ...