... British War memorial which has been erected at Thiepval to commemorate the missing- in the Battle of the Somme. Among the units which suffered heavily in the Somme Battle, and for which this memorial has a special significance, was the Leeds Pals battalion—and ...

... 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 ...

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... and attention which was bestowed ou the graves of their fallen comrades. There was good deal of criticism about the Battle of the- Somme, went on Sir Fiederick. The forces suffered terribly, but they endured and won through. The memorials told the story ...

... regiment was in memory of Sir Harry’s son, a captain in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who was killed in the Battle of the Somme. . Sir Harry was much moved by his and speaking later to members of the committee. expressed delight at the success ...

... unveiling, by the Prince of Wales of the British Memorial at Thiepval to commemorate the missing in tae Battle of the Somme Mr. F. secretary of the Leeds Pals’ Association, is to attend the unveil- i= company wi with about half-a-dogen bers. Whit May } Thy ...

... security a few miles behind the line, we first entered the trenches opposite Serre. To it we returned, and up to the Battle of the Somme it was the centre of our corporate life. In those few months we came to know the people so well that to this day we ...

... awarded each term the House which has the best record for work. BARNSLEY REMEMBERS SOMME FALLEN. A service in memory of Barnsley men who fell in the Battle of the Somme was held iu Locke Park, yesterday. A parade was in command of Major G. S. Nelson (sth ...

... THE UNDYING SPIRIT Mr. T. Cowling, Easingwold, who proposed The Yeoman Rifles,” recalled the Battle of the Somme, where the battalion, he said, gained their reputation as fighters, and September 15, 1916, they penetrated further into the enemy’s lines ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...