... Wellington's Regt.. only son of William and Edith NAVLOR. Tamer's Wood, London, N.W.11, late of killed in action at the Battle of the Somme, September 16, 1916, aged 19 years. INSIST ON BOLIVAR CORONAS. SklorblriKfost ...

... The Battle of the Somme, begun on July Ist, 1916, was raging. The lst-4th Black Watch, part of the 39th Division, tvhile on the Festubert’Neuve Chapelle Front, teas ordered south to join in the battle. CHAPTER 26.— OFF TO THE SOMME. HEN the ...

... frightful and bloody madness, is a lasting achievement. It ought to be remembered in honour as long as men speak of the Battle of the Somme. Towards the end the author’s strained nerves could stand it no longer. There were three nights in succession when at ...

... Mercury” photographer.) Square. (By a Mercury” photographer.) •ance held by the Leeds branch of the ;rifice during the Battle of the Somme, July, • *.; •.>•.. .• •.* ■ ■ -.'', '.■. ONE OF CASTLEFORD’S RUINED HOMES.—A Castleford householder recovering her ...

... “ Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man,” brings back to us those heavy- heai’tecl days of waiting to take one’s turn in the Battle of the Somme! Evening fell calm and overcast, with a blurred orange sunset. Sitting among rank grass and thistles 1 stared pensively ...

... HITCH OVER BARNSLEY MEMORIAL SERVICE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) BARNSLEY, Wednesday. Many Barnsley men fell in tho battle of the Somme, and each year on a Sunday near July 1 a service is held in Locke Park. Usually members of tho local Territorials, British ...

... headquarters. I have seen him, after he had been on duty for 20 hours with hardly pause, typing operation orders in the Battle of the Somme when more asleep than awake, doing them perfectly, and only halting for a moment when shells above bumped out our c ...

... the Morley Rugby Union Football Club, and Sehon!_ is an old boy of the Leeds Central High Though he fo : ught at the Battle of th Somme and in Gallipoli during the war Mr. Keighley asserts that he was unabl any longer to endure the rigours of th French ...

... Drummond Gauld, author of “Scotland Yet!” (Hutchinson, 7s. 6d.). This is a closely detailed account of how, from the Battle of the Somme to the end of the War, a battalion of infantry lived from day to day. In a foreword the author says, “You will find ...

... * * * Into the Battle of the Somme, ITERCIFULLY it was some days the 4th-sth Black Watch was ordered into battle. There was no mistaking the, importance of this enormous struggle, for the roads were almost jammed with night traffic for many miles and ...

... Lancaster, Captain Pethed, M.C. (Pontefract), and Lieut. Fairwcather. To commemorate the twelfth anniersary of the Battle of the Somme, in which it is computed over 1,000 men from Rotherham and district were slain, a service was conducted around the Cenotaph ...

... told me his name was Wilhelm Breyer, of Hamburg ; he served in the 85th (Holstein) Regiment, and he was wounded in the Battle of the Somme on September 4, 1916. He described how he was fighting opposite a Dublin battalion when he was blown by mine, badly ...