... superior. I have every reason to remember a very young Flight-Lieutenant who, towards the end of 1916, came home from the Battle of the Somme, and on leaving hospital was taken to a farce at the Criterion. He was nervous and irritable at the time, and for the ...

... efforts was in the way it used cannon-firing aircraft to combat the German tanks in the early stages of the Battle of the Somme. As I write, that battle still sways, and no one can tell the outcome but it has again shown the amazing powers of improvisation ...

... remembered the mud of France. Once, when Fred was a boy, he had arrived one morning at the shop after seeing the film, Battle of the Somme, full of a delayed glory. -That's what we went through, he said magnificently. Mud 1 Fred, on his half-day, went ...