... 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 ...

... Battle of Somme Commemorated LEEDS BRITISH LEGION SERVICE On a day of wind and rain a thousand members the British Legion paraded at Leeds War Memorial in The Headrow yesterday to pay tribute to their comrades who fell in the Battle of the Somme, July ...

... was severely wounded while his regiment, the sth Battalion the York and Lancaster Regiment, was taking part in the Battle of the Somme. He was shot through the elbow, and as a result lost elbow joint. ...

... than day. It seems a lot, but for those might wish to s offensive with some of the battles of the Great War, the following figures are in During the . Battle of the Somme the artillery loosed off on the average 271,000 shells Gaily; 3,256,000. shells were ...

... fregile een under war conditions Moreover, wireless cay be picked up by the enemy. Pigeons are speedy and secret, the Battle of the Somme the Prench alone to reach their destina Gespite shelifire used 6,000 pigeone—only 2 per cent. falling st 22,000 pigeons ...

... Legion paraded at the Leeds War Memorial in The Headrow yesterday to pay tribute to their comrades who fell in the battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916. All the seventeen branches of the Legion in Leeds and also the Naval Section of the Legion, were represented ...

... Hamilton, and on the outbreak of the Great War he Joined the 6th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment. After being wounded at the Battle of the Somme he resumed practice In Bradford. He was one time President Bradford Grammar Srhool Old Boys Association. ...

... Accelerated l\v Battle ol Somme Wounds was stated at South Shields inquest last night on James Dall Hardy (50), of Burton Street, St. Pancraa, London, that his death had been accelerated by gassing and wounds received the Battle of the Somme 23 years ago ...

... the European War, and was attached to inte! department of the War Office. During the war he produced the film “The Battle of the Somme.” He built the Scala Theatre in London, and when at the age of 77 he went to live in Hove he built the first block of ...

... in the Northumberland Fusiliers. He served in France for nearly three years and won the Military Cross during the Battle of the Somme. Transferred to tire Machine Gun Corps, was promoted Major when only 22 years of age. He has been in command of the ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...