... 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 ...

... British attack north of the Somme on a front of 16 miles. Villages held for 20 months by the enemy liberated and thousands of prisoners taken. Furious fighting continues. Note: This was the opening of the great Battle of the Somme, in which the 49th (West ...

... Twenty Years Ago. TO those who fought in the Battle of the Somme it is hard to realise that that grim event, the greatest battle in which British arms were ever engaged, began twenty years ago last Wednesday. Merciful time has softened the agonies of ...

... OTHER CEREMONIES. York British Legion yesterday commemorated the opening of the Battle of the Somme by an open-air service at the City War Memorial in the gardens by the River Ouse. Accompanying the British Legion were the local company of the Legion ...

... 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 ...

... service of the Leeds Pals (15th West Yorkshire Regiment) Association, almost on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, in which they suffered such heavy losses, was held at the Leeds Parish Church last night. About seventy members attended ...

... without whom the re-unlon would not have been possible. From .they went to Aldershot and to France. They took part the Battle of the Somme, suffering tremendous losses, including their colonel, the late Earl of Feversham. After the came Ridge (1917), Italy ...

... back in the vase the cupboard. Just Right And then there the story which Lord Halifax told at York. It was during the Battle of the Somme. Lord Halifax was there with his regiment; suddenly his squadron discovered disaster as great military setback. The ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... when Haig was waging the battle of the Somme and the battle of Passchendaele he was dead certain, in spite of all he was told, that all was going well and would go well. He believed, he must have believed, that those battles were going far better for ...

... that the second volume of Mr. Duff Cooper's life of Lord Haig will be out on May 7. The first volume ended with the Battle of the Somme on November 18, 1P16: the second covers the tremendous events of the last two years of the War, and includes, of course ...