... published last year, as was Volume in. of Canada in Flanders, written by Mr. C. G. D. Roberta, dealing with the Battle o/ the Somme. The stories of the first 30 Canadians to. win the Victoria Cross proved to be very popular. Canada's Thumph--Amietia ...

... family connected, they recruited so many of the 51st Division, than which no Division famous. whether they looked to the battle of the Somme in 1916. the of Arras. Tprss, and Cambrai, or thane of 1919. In all the 51st Dave:non covered itself and Scotland with ...

... 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 ...

... operations of 1917. There was to be a powerful Franco-British offensive on an enlarged Somme front. The group of armies of the North were to attack between the Somme and Laasigny, while the British Army attacked between Bapaume and Viniy. The attack was ...

... thongh the first time it went Into aittion as disivieee at the Battle of Loos in the following September. Since then the divitdon has been engaged in moat of the offensives. at N'imy, on the. Somme, at Megrims, at Ypres. and at Cambral, while last year it ...

... Many new Orange banners bearing war scenes, particularly that of •the gallant charge of the Ulster Division at the Battle of the Somme, were carried in the procession. A number of new Orange Lodges have been established-in Belfast during the last year ...

... THE SOMME. Except for an allusion to Lord Kitchener as a great organizer, a note from time to time of the growing strength of the New Army, and a number of vague and adjectival allusions to the severity of the fighting in the Battle of the Somme, Ludendorff ...

... the resporudbility of rejecting P—Yes. There were a considerable number. Sir Eustsee that. generally Masking, in the Battle of the Somme the armour on the Tanks used gav'e adequate protection. In a few cases. however, etrumur-piercing bullets penetrated ...

... thousands of brave men. This loss fell upon us right up to the last months of the fighting, for from the beginning of the Somme battle of 1916 onwards we had to bear a strain which never relaxed, and great part of its severity was due to the fact that the ...

... Dosember. This division was recruited entirely in Wales. and took part in almost every offensive, starting with the Battle of the Somme in 1918. It hs• had as hard fighting as any division of the British Army. and! well remember the division going over ...

... advastage at surprise or of numbers. On March 4, General lent/whet d'Esperey Oe• will he aintail nal fur And he again the Battle of the Somme.' warned General Nivelle that the Germans twice forcibly dect&md• On noexcuse l I bet were yreparing to retreat to ...

... of our munitions, for he was allowed to tire whet he lilted. (Cheers.) On July 1, 1916, at the commencement of the battle of the Somme they fired into the enemy's lines 13,000 tow of artillery ammunition, and in September at the Hindenburg line they fired ...