... (fear son and brother. Corpora! d ward CharleK 3loorcrort 13 London ment, Royal Ftodliers. killed in :all , r first battle of the Somme, October 3i d. 1916. We have loot him, we who loved him, Hut, like uthem lau,t be brace: For we know that he is slee ...

... and he then pro. ceeded to .peak of the great part they 'had played in the great conflict from 1015 to 1918. la the battle of the Somme in 1916, when lie commanded. the 149th brigade of the Northumbrian division, a fine lot of men. very much like the South ...

... his company of Robin Hoods in August. 1914, and by the February following he was in France. On the first day of the battle of the Somme the Robin Hoods suffered grievious loss and after an appalling day of bloodshed and horror. Major Spalding brought out ...