... whether you will have your bedtime milk warm or cold. The Somme. JUNE is nearly over. and the first day of July remains a day of solemn significance. It is nineteen years since the Battle of the Somme was fought, but it will be more than another nineteen ...

... LONDON ’PHONE: CENTRAL HISTORY’S ANSWER TO THE GRIM QUESTION: Was the Battle of the Somme A German gun buried in Lonage By W.L.A. TWENTY-TWO years after we fought the Battle of the Somme the official historians are now able to tell us what happened. It is ...

... SOMME MEMORIAL Tribute to Leeds Pals’ Fellowship TWENTYONE YEARS after the Battle of the Somme, some 70 former members of the 15th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (the Leeds “Pals”) attended a memorial service to their fallen comrades, at Leeds Parish ...

... in the Leeds Rifles in 1912. went with them to France in 1915, and was severely wounded on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme in July, 1916. He was afterwards posted to a reserve battalion, with which he served until almost the end of the war ...

... TWO IDEAS THE WAR. *‘ In Government circles in London, he writes, in a chapter dealing with the Battle of the Somme, there had arisen two conceptions as to how the war should be conducted * While the majority of the Cabinet considered that a solution ...

... the Beaumont Plamel sector, and from that time onwards the Leeds Pals had their full share .of the fighting. Of the Battle of the Somme what can one say that has not been said so much better on many previous occasions? Those unforgettable days which preceded ...

... EX-SERVICEMEN S PARADE. BRADFORD’S COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME Preliminary arrangements for the annual ex-Servlcemen’s parade in Bradford, on the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, were made at a meeting night of representatives of the ...

... proud and glorious memory of ALFRED VICTOR RATCLIFFE, 2nd Lieut. 10th West Ycrkshires. killed in action at Fricourt (Battle of the Somme). July 1. 1916. whilst gallantly leading his company.—R.l.P. VAUSE.—To the dear memory of JOHN GILBERT (Jack) VALISE ...

... one of those anniversaries that those whose memories go back to the War will not forget. To-morrow, the fallen in the Battle of the Somme will be commemorated ...

... and the R.A.F. He was awarded the D.S.O. for his service In command of a squadron of 18 fighter ’planes during the Battle of the Somme. He received a permanent commission in 1919, and was awarded the 0.8. E. ...

... the British Legion held their annual service in Wombwell Park yesterday, in commemoration of those who fell in the Battle of the Somme. The service was preceded by a process:on through the town headed by the Barnsley Borough Band and including members ...

... has been Informed by the Imperial War Graves Commission that the body of her son, who was reported missing after the battle of the Somme on September 25, 1916, has been found near Les Boeufs, in France, and has been reburied in the London Cemetery extension ...