... intimate personal friends. They fought in close touch through the battle of the Somme 1913. How well remember going to see the British Commander-in-Chicf hie advanced headquarters during that battle t As I left the ch&teau General Foch was entering it. A Patient ...

... For we were taught in our history books and the legends and stories of children's books, that in all battles one side was praying on the eve of battle, while the other was drinl'-ing and roystering. Those who prayed and were quiet won. In this war, even ...

... Hour. By John Buchan. (Thomas Nelson.) 2s. 6d. The present volume begins with the second battle of the Somme In March, 10 18, and takes us down to the second battle of the Marne, which formed the crisis of the War. It contains twenty- seven maps and two ...

... Those are my son's, my grandson's and my son-in-law's seats. And they are there! She had lost all three at the battle of the Somme. THE DEARNESS OF LIVING. I have heard some pitiful tales of the prices charged in the restaurants during the fetes, ...

... other hand, for nearly two years preceding the battle of the Somme, France stood almost alone to face the battering of the German host on the western front and, although, later on, her share in the battle was diminished, she still bore the brunt of the ...

... the authorities This was not the first time she had stayed away from home. Wood said her father Iris killed in the battle of the Somme in 1916; her mother died in 1912. Formerly she lived in Yorkshire, and had an aunt, but did not know where she was now ...

... of the future, might well prove to have been derisive in the greatest battle of the world—the battle of the Marne. (Cheers.) As for the New Army which came into the battle of the Somme. it bore the rest of the brunt of war in the West under the command ...

... -active service in the war, was despatch riding in Nieuport and Dunkirk during their most troublous times, was in the Battle of the Somme, and is the recipient of the Croix du Guerra. A Fatal Crash. Jack Harding, who plays a prominent part in the Pollock-Daring ...

... was subsequently increased 150. Counsel could not say they were all manufactured before the battle or the Somme, but the tanks which took part in that battle were all made either at Foster’s works Lincoln by the Metropolitan Carnage Company. They were ...

... Cadet Camp at Newmarket. He returned to France in 1916, and was again wounded in August, 1916, in the Battle of the Somme, and again in the third Battle of Ypres in November, 1917. Failing to . pass as fit for further active service, he joined his regiment ...

... comes from the Bodley Head. He was seventeen when the war broke, and nineteen when he passed to the Fuller Life in the Battle of the Somme, on 22nd September, 1916. Necessarily, then, we get a chronicle on the thought. the mother's boy what he became, and ...

... being attached to the 47th Division. The regiment saw some stern fighting at Loos, and later at the Vimy Ridge, at the Battle of the Somme, at Messines. at Wvlschalte Ridge and at Bourlon Wood. They were engaged in the retreat in 1918 in the early months ...