... Service Arrangements in Leeds To-morrow. The Leeds Pals’ ’* Memorial service to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme will be held the Leeds Parish Church to-morrow evening, at 7.30. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend this annual ...

... dinner honour of the Division in 1919, he said: “I was charged with wanton waste of the men entrusted to my command the battle of the Somme. I repudiate that charge with indignation. The measures taken which led to this loss were either in opposition to r ...

... we not have saved much of that terrible outpouring of life and ended the War quicker The Battle of the Somme failed as a battle for a break-through. As a battle of attrition, which it became, its cost, oyer 600,000 British and French casualties against ...

... raised by the late Lord Feversham, and did its preliminary training at Duncomhe Park, won a great reputation at the Battle of the Somme, where its gallant commander fell. For thirteen years the Old Comrades have foregathered to renew war-time friendships ...

... Legion, at a Cenotaph service in Leeds yesterday. The service was held in commemoration of the 19th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, in which many Leeds soldiers made the supreme sacrifice and there was a big muster of ex-Servicemen. In a brief address ...

... Western Front with the 10th (Service) Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, and was with them during and after the battle of the Somme. I remember rightly,” writes a correspondent, he was Second-in-Command of that unit to Lieut.-Col. Slasher ’ Haynes—so ...

... 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 ...

... Ex-Servicemen 'Y'ESTERDAY morning in Leeds was given up to the memory of soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice in the Battle of the Somme, July 1, 1918. More than 2,000 men belonging to various ex-Servicemen’s associations paid personal homage at the War ...

... years rolled back, and the magistrate, Major J. D. M. McCallum, was second-in-command of the Ulster Division at the Battle of the Somme. The probation officer, Captain A. J. Thorn: ton. was adjutant. Major McCallum, who w@ the then, and Captain Thornton ...

... pay homage to our old comrades in the British cemetery at Serre, on the very ground over which the first waves of the Battle of the Somme surged on the fateful July 1 sixteen years ago. Our act of remembrance—the third we shall have performed there since ...

... published to-day. It is the saddest and most disturbing book I have ever read. In this volume we come quickly to the battle of the Somme, with its enormous squandering of life, and, after an account of the miserable state of affairs that led to the downfall ...

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