... war against Fascism. We may rejoice that first reports indicate that casualties have been light. The Battle of the Rhine is not another Battle of the Somme. But the Rhine crossings are an immediate prelude to a great and bloody climax in the heart of Germany ...

... battalion in November. 1914. and was out there in the thick of the fray until July. 1916. when he was wounded in the Battle of the Somme. He was awarded the Military Medal as Sgt. Telfer in /916 for bravery in the field. and later on he saw service in West ...

... the bowing shortage . My. WlMilk had a distinguished record In the Great War, when he commanded a battery during the Battle of the Somme when be was only 22 He was awarded the French Croix de Ouerre avec Patme. and also won the distinction of the military ...

... Atkins. who was a general labourer. served throughout the last war in the Black Watch Regiment and was wounded at the Battle of the Somme. The interment took plaids in Roxeth churchyard on Friday, the Rev. J. N. Hoare officiating. Mourners: Mrs D. Atkins ...

... a war of men and of bullets, of earth and of wire, of mud, blood 4 and steel, in which battles were funeral marches and victories—cenotaphs. Look back on the Somme, look back on Passchendaele 1 In the one we lost 474,974 men in killed, wounded, missing ...

... Dramatic Society made the somewhat unusual choice of The Watched Pot” by H H Munro the well-known journalist killed in the battle of the Somme and more familiar by his pen name of Saki” and who collaborated with Charles Maude in the writing of this play It was ...

... s Mrs Dornton is survived by her husband Mr A S Dornton her youngest son Patrick Her eldest son Harold fell in the battle of the Somme July 1 1916 and her second son Cecil passed on in October 1927 The Funeral Christ Church Ealing wnere the funeral service ...