... to the personal question said : — I ,. wa 3 charged with wanton wasto of the men entrusted to my command n , t the Battle o £ the Somme . I rapudiafe that charge with igdignatiofl . The measures taken which led to this loss wero either , in opposition ...

... , London , formerly of Abbboath , who was . repotted missing since 1 st- July 1916 , the opening day of the first Battle ' of the Somme , is now othcially reported presumed to have been killed in action on that date . Lt . Brown in civilian Jifo was employed ...

... . Poincaro laid two palm sprays beforo , tho monuments to tho British and French soldiers who were killed in the Battle ot . the . Somme , detachments of British and French troops presenting arms as he did so . At a reception at tho Hotel do Ville the ...

... on and return to parti- conflict . - ( p . S . ) As account of the attack by lie 16 ik Bojd Soofe Battalion in the Battle of the Somme . beginning on 1 st July 1 P 16 , is the first , detailed and pmheatic narrative of -the battalion ' s • Dirt ia that ...

... not long before his battalion was in action , After having seen some stiff fightmg , he was severely wounded in tho Battle of the Somme on 1 st July , 1916 . Tho day after he received his wound he was promoted Major on the field . On recovering from his ...

... Battalion King ' s Liverpool Regiment , which he took out to France in the following November . He was wounded in the Battle of the Somme , and was afterwards employed at the War Office m connection with the employment of Asiatic labour , and subsequently ...

... ) , and shortly afterwards he received a commission as 2 nd Lieiit . in the Boyal Engineers . He was wounded at the battle of the Somme in 1915 and sent home , but on recovering he returned t o France and is hot ? with his company in ^ Belgium , having ...

... cavity ' left after tho explosion of one of the series if mines which gave the signal for tit commencement oi the Battle . of the Somme in J 916 ,- in which the Edinburgh battalions , in comnion with others which went through that tremendous ordeal , ...

... seeming interminableness of the trench warfare ; Verdun had been a glorious defence , But it entailed cruel losses ; the battle of the Somme had dragged its weary length through the second half of the year without making an . great headway ,. so far as clearing ...

... It describes succinctly the operations tho Division was engaged in and the exporiences they went through from the Battle of the Somme till it was withdrawn from the lino in Juno last year , and continues the story after its return from England in Soptombor ...

... Flourta ! s -until May , -when they were withdrawn to the region of St Omer for . special training in preparation for the Battle of tlio Somme . The morning of the 1 st of July found them in position in front of La Boiselle . The 101 st Brigade , of which they ...

... a system of unified control of all systems of . transportation in Franco during the war . At tho lime of the first battle of tho Somme in 1916 , before a Director-General was appointed , he said our Army was hopelessly bogged by the chaotic state of our ...