... 1014 entered the R.AM.C. to which his brother, Surgeon Colonel C. Reilly, M.D. was attached. He was wounded at the battle of the Somme. Another brother, Rev. R. Reilly, M.A, T.C.D., was rector at Great Stainton, Co. Durham His son, Mr. Frnest Reilly, ...

... 1914-18 War with distinction, and was mentioned in despatches, besides gaining the D.S.O. and the C.M.G. In the first Battle of the Somme he suffered from a machine-gun burst, while in the second he was prostrated by gas attack. Sir Bertram is noted as a ...

... Department sent him to Ireland to buy army horses. Then came the Battle of France. He lost his youngest son, Harold, an officer in the French Air Force, in the June, 1940, Battle of the Somme., His other son, Maurice, was taken prisoner, His hometown, La ...

... ANSWER TIME (Questoins on onnosite page.) (1) A sorceress who turned the companions of Ulysses into swine. (2) At the battle of the Somme in 1916. (3) In West Africa. (4) A famous astronomer, born in Dublin 1840, died 1913. T.D.'s WHEAT CROP Professor M ...

... the past three or four days 200 tanks have been destroyed. “This series of battles may be called the miracle of Summa, being comparable to the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Verdun,” says the statement. “But although the Russians are falling in ...

... hearing should be given to the military chiefs responsible for the Sedan break-through. for the conditions in which the battle along the Somme was fought, and for the condtions in which Franco-British collaboration was carried out. These questions have met ...