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... torpedoed by a U-boat , had been Unionist M . P . for the Wrekin Division of Shropshire since 1931 . He fought in the Battle of the Somme , served on the staff ' of the 3 rd and 4 th Armies in the Great War , and attained the rank of Major . Alter the war ...
... last war , having learned to fly at Brooklands , and won the D . S . O . for leading his fighter squadron into the Battle of the Somme . Last year he was in a Sunderland hit by j \ ak during an attack on a U-boat . The first U-boat sunk by an Azores-based ...
... 'Planes Shot Down on Wednesday The following communique was issued bj the French Air Ministry yesterday : — When the Battle of the Somme began yesterday , our attacking squadrons went into action in the small hours and did not cease to harass enemy marching ...
... Stirling . Pipe-Major Aitken took part in the operations at Suakin , 1884 , the Battle of Telel-Kebir . the Battle of El-Teb-Tamari , the operations of the Nile , 1884-5 , and the Battle of Kirbekan . He went to Stirling Castle in 1886 to be pipe-major to the ...
... > -.:. ? , ' jL One article concludes :, German officers who took part in the Wggest , battle of the Somme . during the last war report that the battle for Tobruk is far heavier-andj / the losses are severe' owing to terrific gun and machine-gun ...
... 1 B 1 G ; This much more , t h e Lor d Provost recalling that on that date there were 100 , 000 casualties in the Battle of the Somme . Whatever the future held for us , he said , if it was a future without France it was a future hardly worth contemplating ...
... equipment have not been great—probably less than the British Army lost in any one day in the opening phases of the Battle of the Somme during the last war—and it will certainly be quickly replaced . There is a tendency to stress only the honourable o ...
... Paris . It was near Peronne that tanks , a British invention , were first used in war on a small scale In ' the First Battle of the Somme . It- was at Cambrai where they made their first mass attack in the autumn of 1917 . and their success took ourselves ...
... will be others at Acroma , Benghazi , Tripoli , Mareth , and . Enfidaville . ' SOMME V . C . DEAD ' Major George Onions , who won the V . C . during the second battle of the Somme , has died in Birmingham , aged 62 . He met with a motoring accident a few ...
... He was taken to a hospital in the Chartres area . Makin , Manchester-born , was invalided out of the Army after the Battle of the Somme in the last war . The names of three corps commanders of the British Second Army were announced yesterday . They are ...
... of the last war . He was gazetted to the Royal Marine Artillery , Howitzer Brigade , served in France throughout the Battle of the Somme 1916 , and was subsequently invalided home . He was then appointed chairman of the Special Arbitration . Tribunal on ...
... tenable for three years . He endowed : a bed in the Royal Infirmary in memory of his son , John , who was killed in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 . Of a quiet and reserved nature . Mr Mac-Brayne was highly respected by a wide circle of friends in the city ...