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... The Battle of the Somme To-Day's Anniversary Fourteen years have passed since the dawn of a particular July 1 heralded the breaking of a hot and cloudless morning. The past week had been dull and rainy, but this day the clouds that had swept the uplands ...
... increased selfrespect. Infested by Rats TX7HEN the battle of the Somme opened, we were still among the reed-reflecting waters and poppied fields of Givenchy. We knew we should soon be going down to the battle. There were the usual symptoms of excitement, premature ...
... at Edinburgh Academy, Mr Ross was the son of Captain Peter Ross, an Edinburgh school teacher, who was killed at th«e Battle of the Somme. The death of another volunteer fighting for the Spanish Government announced yesterday. He was Peter Robert Roy Alexander ...
... them a bequest of £20,000. Major Stocks was one of the original members of the Kirkcaldy company. He was killed at the battle of the Somme on Ist July 1916. On each anniversary the members and ex-members of the company parade at the War Memorial to take part ...
... Stratford He served in the k. Scots Fusiliers, and was twice wounded, first at Ypres and subsequently at Peronne, in the battle of the Somme. He afterwards served with the Cyclist Corps of the 15th Division. He holds the Mons Star, the Military Medal, the D ...
... in the £. You can make claim for repayment any time by showing receipts. Date. —Tanks were first used the war at the battle of the Somme on 15th September, 1916. Gib.—Gibraltar is 2| miles in length and of mile in breadth, and 1396 feet high at its greatest ...
... France with the Ist North Scottish Battery (67th Siege). At the Front he was in action at Kemmel, Flanders, the First Battle of the Somme, Arras, Vimy Ridge, Messines Ridge and Passchendaele. In July, 1916, he received the Military Major W. WOOD. ...
... not take place. Mr Desmond Carew's father, the late Major Richard Carow, of Tallv-Ho Dublin was killed serving the 'battle of the Somme. Lady Cleveland and her daughter were out motoring yesterday, but confirmation of the cancelled wedding was given -« ...
... constant feeling in England that the Highland regiments were receiving too much praise. When the official film of the Battle of the Somme was exhibited in Manchester it attracted great attention. At one point it showed the Royal Warwicks going fearlessly ...
... artillery. He went to France with the Ist North Scottish Battery (67th Siege Battery), and saw service in the first battle of the Somme, the attack on Vimy Ridge, the attack on Messines Ridge and Passchendale, being wounded at Messines. After convalescence ...
... of the club paraded at the memorial. Major H. L. Stocks, the first captain of the company, was killed at the first battle of the Somme on Ist July 1916. He left £25.000 and the Victoria Hall, the compari) headquarters, to the 8.8. movement in Kirkcaldy ...
... Wilson, designer of the first tanks, and Captain W. J. Wakley, who took the tanks to France and lost leg in the fi tank battle on the Somme. Passengers at Presto Station were surprised to see the strange, almost silent, thost train running alongside the Royal ...