... Africans four years ago. Sunday was the anniversary of the battle, and the occasion was celebrated at the principal centres in South Africa. It will be recalled that after the Battle of the Somme in July, 1916, there were several engagements in woods which ...

... father and two of his aunts had been shut up in lunatic asylums. The accused himself had received shell shock during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and he bad also become a drug addict. Counsel reed testimonials to the good character of the accused from the ...

... the War Office. a captain in the Navy, and • major in the R.F.A. He is 76. He took the original pruins war Men of the Battle of the Somme in 1916, whicH has not been amen for years, and of which be has what is 'My the sole remaining copy. H. designed built ...

... honoured place in the metnory of north•countty people. THE PART OF A PICCOLO IN A BATTLE. In dealing with the later phases of the war, and particularly the second Battle of the Somme, Colonel Wylly remarks on the absence of war diaries of several of the Border ...

... in the first Hattie of Ypres, .ond he , C 8.4 in command at NCIIVC Chappell,. Ile commanded the Inurtl• .Army at the Battle of the Somme. and al ill'• end of 1917 held the right of the British line at St. Qs entio. Following that Lord Rawlinne. was appointed ...

... communicelions with Aim, her eldest son, the Hon. Edward Wyndham. of the 4th Grenadier Guertin, wits fell in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. These messages were is the form of book tests --glotetions as to the book to be consulted and en page on ...

... THE SOMBRE SOMME. standing on the windswept bare hillsides, where the Somme battles of 1916 and 1913 were fought, ruin and desolation are still the prominent features of the landscape. At the foot of the hill, where we stand, runs the little river Ancre ...

... inscription, In proud memory of the Colonel, o ffi cers, and men of the (Lonsdale) Borderßegiment, hfouquet Farm, Battle of the Somme, Juiy let, 1916.' A big company gathered in the Appleby British Legion Club on Sunday night to listen to the concert ...

... took part were: The Battle of Hooge, September 28th, 1915. The Battle of the Somme, July—November, 1916. The Bottle of Arran, April—May, 1917. The Battle of Paschendals, October—Novembee, 1917. The Retreat, March, 191& The Battle of Amiens, ...

... April, 1919. The honours and awards which be received for war service include Brevet Major (after the battle of the Somme), D.S.O. (after the third battle of Ypres), Bar to the D. 8.0. for service during the Austrian attack of June, 1912, the Italian Croix ...

... St. Lawrence's hyard was a large wreath of laurels with Fl.,udiors poppies and arum lilies, bearing the ript ion. Battle of the Somme. Moonset m. July Ist. 1916. This land inviolate your ..merit. There were also numerous wreaths relatives of the fallen ...

... leading the men of the Loosdale Battalion of the Border Regiment on the Ancre, a few miles from Albert, during the greet battle of the Somme o July Ist, 1918. The brave leader, determined to see it through, was shot through the head and instantaneously killed ...