... JULY 3, 1944 Normandy and the Somme TO many older people the beginning of July always brings sharp and painful memories of the opening of the first battle of the Somme. Much has been written on the consequences of the battle, and some military historians ...

... reasonably and with full knowledge whether this last sacrifice was necessary or not. THIS The Somme J7XACTLY 30 years ago, on July 1, 1916, began the Battle of the Somme. perhaps the most terrible conflict in British military history. At 7.30 in the morning ...

... days later crossed to France chaplain the Forces. His gallantry and devotion won lor him the D.S.O. in 1917 after the Battle of the Somme and, what prized more highly, the personal friendship of the Prince of Wales. now the Duke Windsor, which had been ...

... first came into operation? It was in May, 1916, and I am assured that this was so by a colleague who fought in the Battle of the Somme later in the same year. cannot possibly be mistaken, he tells me, ” for the circumstances are indelibly imprinted upon ...

... the Honorary M.Sc. Degree Manchester University. Somme Battle Anniversary Between 450 and 500 veterans of the last war marched through Leeds yesterday memory of those who died In the Battle of the Somme, July, 1916. The parade represented 17 groups of ...

... were very quiet ail day, members and investors showing little inclina- tion transact business because of the critical battle on the Somme Front. There was not much selling but the general tend- ency was dull and numerous declines prices were recorded. British ...

... including those members of the Merchant Navy, were 25,377, which was remarkably low when it was recalled that in one of battles of the Somme in the last war we sustained 100,000 casualties one day. Speaking of the close co-operation between the Regional C ...

... Sweden. Ota a Bolder British Policy Sir Hubert Qough. the famous General who had command of Britain's Fifth Army in the battles of the Somme and of Ypres, and who was vindicated years after had been unjustly blamed for its reverses, gives here his outspoken ...

... During the 1914-18 war he was their war correspondent in Flanders and in several other theatres of war, and in the later battles of the Somme was war correspondent for the Press Association and Reuter at the British Army G.H.Q. After the war he was a director ...