... Territorials. r capture of Pozteres, July 23-26, 1916, was one of the most interesting and hard- fought incidents of the Battle of the Somme. Pozleres, after the loss of the first G^man defensive zone early In July, became the principal point of the new system ...

... of the fighting in which the Worcestershires and Wiltshires took part is from Mr. H. Perry Robinson's account of the Battle of the Somme, entitled The Turning Point (Heinemann). The fighting was then towards Thiepval:-- The ground was so torn and battered ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... fought in every battle and on every front. It is a pity that the reticence imposed by military necessity should so often have concealed the great deeds of these troops. At the end of Sir Douglas Haig's despatch on the Battle of the Somme in 1916 there is ...

... 'pres. Sir Douglas Haig has led his troops through the hard fighting of the last two-and-a-half years, through the battles of the Somme up to the great forward attacks which clinched le final victory, the hammer blows which Marshal Foch declared were ...