... GERMANY'S WAR POTENTIAL COMPARED WITH THE OPENING DAY OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. damage to the Germans has been tremendous. And it has been on their doorstep, which the Battle of the Somme was not. Calculations of experts have shown what a very great ...

... anniversary of the ning of the end of the Great War. The headlong retreat of the German hosts defeated at the second battle of the Somme began on Ist September, 1918, and it quickly became a rout. Hundreds of guns were captured and the 11. , ...

... DELVi MEANS DEATH The battle of the Somme mused 30.0001 casualties on the first day• 01 MOM aeproximal ly 3.000 would require transfusion. which would call for the forward proviston of 7.800 pints of blood. Clearly. it would be impossible to obtain this ...

... There are a dozen quotations to support this However. we must not that for the first two Years of the War. until the battle of the Somme began, almost the ...

... chairman of British T,nken Ltd., at the annual meeting of the Company in Birmingham yesterday. When Things Were Worse The Battle of the Somme lasted from July 1 to November 30, 1916. British casualties were 108,724 killed. 393,431 wounded; 45,899 missing and ...

... Deily Maas Death The battle of the Somme caused 30.000 casualties on the first day. Of these approximately 3.000 would require transfusion, which would call for the forward provision of 7.500 pints of blood. Clearly. it would be impossible to obtain this ...

... crews, he showed that such a loss represented only l-200th part of the casualties suffered on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, when we lost 57.500 men. So. allowing that the loss in tanks and guns was probably ...

... spirit of the Great War which still flames in the heart our Empire. To-day is the anniversary of the beginning of the battle of the Somme in 1916. Shall the ghosts of those men, whom some of us still think of as comrades, rise to mock the British of 1940 ...

... standstill rain and mud All told, over a million men lost their lives in the first Battle of the Somme-420.000 British, 194.000 French and 440.000 Germans In 1918 the Somme became the scene of another bloody offensive that failed Ludendorff. in a frenzied ...

... served as a combatant in the 11th Manchester' during the Pint World War and was in the landing at Suvis Hay and the battle of the Somme. His MC. was awarded for I services at Gallipoli and be was I mentioned in despatches. ...

... SOMME BATTLE VICTIM A disabled es-Serviceman, Mr. Robert Beattie, 67, of No. :lidFulham High Street, has at Fulham Hospital from lung trouble after a month's Ulness. Wounded in a Battle of the Somme. while a corporal In the Highland Light Infantry, he ...

... lines. It became independent corps after the war. Tanks were employed for the first time on the Western Front in the battle of the Somme in 1916. The Royal Army Ordnance Corps is of very long standing and responsible for the armament equipment and ordnance ...