... BATTLE OF THE SOMME GERMAN THRUST TOWARDS CHANNEL PORTS ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED ON AISNE R.A.F. FIRE ROTTERDAM OIL TANKS THERE IS LITTLE RELIABLE INFORMATION OF THE PROGRESS OF THE GREAT BATTLE BETWEEN ALLIED AND GERMAN ARMOURED UNITS NOW BEING FOUGHT ...

... VALOUR ON THE SOMME Major George Onions, V.C., of Edgbaston, whose valour—and bluff —in capturing single-handed 247 Germans in the second battle of the Somme in 1918, when he was a lancecorporal, gained for him the highest military decoration, died last ...

... in each fortress, making Tobruk a hell of bombing. German officers who took part in the biggest battle of the Somme during the last war report that the Battle for Tobruk is far heavier, and the losses are severe' owing to terrific gun and machine-gun fire ...

... WILLS Onions, Major George, V.C., of Hagley Road, Birmingham, who, as a lance-corporal, won the V.C. during the second Battle of the Somme, left £2,348 (net personalty £1,237). Rimell, Mrs. Maud Measure, Severn Stoke, left £2,286 (net personalty £2,110). ...

... happen to miss the Battle of the Somme? Well, in 1916, he and a number of other chosen workers were to have visited the battlefields at the invitation of fhe British military authorities, just as they were about to start, the battle flared up and they ...

... Ltd., of which he became a director. He was in France as a Territorial officer from 1915 to 1919. He fought in the Battle of the Somme, served on the staffs of the Third and Fourth Armies, and attained the rank of major. After the war he continued service ...

... SON, C. 0., FOUND OWN RELIGION” T WAS through the Battle of the Somme at the age of 16. And I still think I was right. I do not share my son’s opinion. It has caused me a great deal of distress. I came here to-day against his express wish. But I felt ...

... COST OF 200 BERLIN RAIDS “CHEAPER” THAN ONEDAY SOMME BATTLE Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert, in a broadcast last night, said that on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme suffered 57,500 casualties. In a major raid, if forty bombers were lost ...

... in equipment have not been great—probably less than the British Army lost in any one day the opening phases of the Battle of the Somme during the last war—and will certainly be quickly replaced—Press Association. GERMANS NORTH ...

... Gresley, Burton-on- Trent. who celebrated their golden wedding yesterday, have 18 descendants. A son was killed at the battle of the Somme. Mr. Hair is a retired colliery deputy. Coalv.ile Chamb;£* of Trade has arranged for a Messerschmitt fighter to on view ...

... bereaved or loss of the country’s lives. If not, surely he was not counting on casualties on the scale of those of the Battle of the Somme? Sir Kingsley Wood, indicating that he conld not accept the amendment, said they were all fully sympathetic to its purpose ...

... Onions won the V.C. in the last war for an exploit of valour and bluff in capturing 247 Germans. It was in the second battle of the Somme in 1918, when he was a lancecorporal, that Onions and a private were sent from the British lines to locate another regiment ...