... Battle of Somme Service the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, the Mayor of Barnsley (Alderman T. W. Richardson), accompanied by members and officers of the Corporation, yesterday attended the annual memorial service Locke Park for the fallen the ...

... Tadcaster, entered the R.N A. learned to fly at Brooklands. He won the D.SO. for leading his fighter squadron into the Battle of the Somme. The first U-boat sunk by an Azores-based aircraft was destroyed by Fortress within two weeks of our forces beginning ...

... WORLD OF the Battle of the Somme, the chalk ridge rising from the valley burst into unbroken line of smoke and fire, and it was up that ridge and into the furnace beyond that many a Northern battalion plunged to Its lasting fame and grievous loss. To ...

... .,;,/ «>«'/,/^,MWi/,«.«'. ; w//.' i Twenty-lour years have passed since the Leeds Pals went into action in the Battle ot the Somme on July 1, 1916, but the comradeship of those days has been kept alive. This group, which includes Mr. O. Cosby, Col ...

... their first commanding officer, the late Earl Feversham, that splendid a unit was created. The Earl was killed the Battle of the Somme, but they were proud tliat his son. the present Earl, was himself the commander of a famous regiment, the 13/18 Hussars ...

... constant memory of my two dear c.pii,ins and chums. GER.ALD, May 2Z. 1934, and his only brother TOM (Leeds Pals ). Battle of the Somme. July 1, 1916. Always to my thoughts.—Charteits. WRlGHT—Treasured memories of a dear husband and dad. CLIFFORD, who ...

... The Tank's Birthday AM reminded by a colleague who was present the Battle of the Somme in that to-day is the twenty-eighth birthday the tank. Few of those who watched the great clumsy monsters, steered by a wheeled rudder at the rear, crawling ponderously ...

... THEY ENCOUNTER NEW DEFENCES British Troops in Good Strength on Sea Flank The Battle of the Somme and Aisne, launched by the Germans on a 120-mile front at dawn yesterday, continued with increased fury during the night. FIGHTING became more intense around ...

... the poppy's- scarlet from grim days similar to those their sons are now facing on the tortured soil France. When the Battle of the Somme began in early July, the flaming frieze of poppies was seen along many a communication trench and across shell-pitted ...

... Liberal M.P. for Kilmarnock, and during the last war served with the Royal Marine Artillery, fighting throughout the Battle of the Somme 1916. Before becoming chairman of the P. and O. in succession to his fatherin-law. the late Lord Inchcape, Lord Cralgmylc ...

... Pratt. has died at his home, Northfield House, South Kirkby, at the age of 57. Mr. Pratt, who lost both his legs in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, was chairman of South Kirkby branch of the Legion, chairman of the Hemsworth group of branches, a member of ...

... Yorkshire Observer Leeds. On the outbreak of the last war he enlisted the Leeds Pals and was severely wounded in the Battle of the Somme cn July 1, 1916. On discharge from the Army 1917 he joined The Yorkshire Evening Post. He left Leeds to become chief ...