... Martinsart Wood, crashed out the signal for all guns to open out. Never before had such a din been heard by man. The Battle of the Somme had begun. .. More than 2,000 guns spit their missiles of death in one ear-shattering salvo. SCREENED IN SMOKE Some ...

... reunion, this gathering is in commemoration of the SSO officers and men who were either killed or wounded at the first Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916.” Budgies ” , E. PARKIN, Chairman of the Leeds and County Budgerigar and Foreign Bird Society, writes ...

... war, said witness, Melhuish ha: served as an officer in France and was the M.C. He was severely wounded during the Battle of the Somme, and since been Geaf in one ear. Dr. W. Pairiie said Geath was due to a gun’ shot woung in the head. There was of the ...

... blindly in the Somme. That maddening battle had worn down the men’s nerves to the quick, and now —how good it was to be in Flanders again ! When, in the pink of condition, we had marched in midsummer heat from Le Touret to the Battle of the Somme, number of ...

... setting a magnificent example. Corporal G. Sanders, Leeds Rifles (later captain); Hoi beck man. Isolated, during the Battle of the Somme in July. 1916. with a party of 30 men. he organised the defence and held with conspicuous bravery for hours without ...

... brightest when the Germans had failed to smash the French defence at Verdun and had suffered enormous casualties in the Battle of the Somme, and when the Allied forces at Salonika were unable to take the offensive and the Italians were halted on the road to ...

... allies were a liability rather than an asset—a position that should have been argued at greater length; and that the battle of the Somme in 3916 put a strain upon the resistance of Germany from which she never properly recovered. FOOD PRODUCTION Even ...

... Town Hall And It comes to that. I don't see why pay-list one time—was volunteer. On July 1. 1916, at the opening the Battle of the Somme, the Rifles presented spectacle said unique In the War eight battalions one regiment, advancing the attack at one time ...

... the original wooden cross, which was erected at Thiepval In 1917, recording the part the battalion played the First Battle of the Somme. In proud memory the officers and men. The lettering on the broken cross faded and scarcely decipherable. On each ...

... Grenadier Guards, and fought with the 3rd Battalion throughout the War. He was wounded three times, at the Battle of the Somme, the first Battle of Cambrai and finally during the last r push shortly be- fore the Armistice. During the latter part of the ...

... RIOT.). OAVE THEIR THE OREAT WAR. THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE.- IN GLORIOUS. MEMORY OUR COMRADES WHO FELL AT THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. JULY 1916, —BRADFORD PALS ASSOCIATION. . —ln memory PU. CHARLES *• dl«d of^^wouixdi received action July I.' 1916 ...

... Leeds, Bradford, and other towns yesterday services were held at war memorials in memory of the men who fell in the Battle of the Somme. Page 5 The 800th anniversary of the founding of Rievaulx Abbey was celebrated yesterday by services within the famous ...