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... meters. An interesting illustrated brochure issued in connection with the centenary year recalls that the murderous - Battle of the Somme was in progress when, in July 1916, the firm sent out its millionth meter, and that the two-millionth meter was manufactured ...
... ; served in 1914-18 war . commissioned in 1 st Battalion King ' s Own Scottish Borderers , and wounderi in 1917 at battle of the Somme . Mr Daniel Lamontsurgeon consultant to the Gilbert Bain Memorial Hospital . Lerwick , is an F . R . C . S . Ed . and ...
... three-foot canes is is 6d a dozen. ' Ham and Egg Trench.--ft is impossible to say how many survivors of the second Battle of the Somme (September 15. 1916) are still living. Hobby.—A. Kirkwood & Eon, 9St James' Square, Edinburgh, would be pleased to ...
... A SOMME MEMORY I would like to know if there are any or many left who took part in the second Battle of the Somme, September 15, 1916, the first time the tanks were used. It was the 13th Royal Scots who went over first: the 7th Cameron Highlanders came ...
... . His achievements were accomrhqhed despite the handicap he suffered in osing his left arm at Delville Wood in the Battle of the Somme, in Julg 1916. A Captain at the outbreak of the 1914 war, he rose to be Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. He served with the ...
... he went to France and in 1915 he was second-in-command of the sth Battalion. the Cameronians. He was wounded in the Battle of the Somme, and as a result lost the sight of an eye. On returning to France, he had command of the 5/6th Battalion, _the Cameronians ...
... spent in the Army from September 1914 when he joined the 17th hCltlalmber of Commerce) Battalion of the Wounded in the Battle of the Somme in July 1916, he was posted on recovery to a divisional headquarters unit, with which he remained until he was demob ...
... shot. Born in 1895 in Watten, Caithness, he won the Caithness rifle shooting championship at the age of 16. At the battle of the Somme in 1918, while serving as a Lieutenant in thel Black Watch. he was struck by a bursting shell which resulted in the ...
... while the total number of casualties of the British Commonwealth and Empire Forces was 1.246.025. (3) Casualties at the Battle of the Somme were (the first figure applies to officers and the second figure to other ranks)—Killed or died of wounds 993: 18.247 ...
... Scottish Man-Power Boards. She is the widow of Captain Peter Ross, M.A.. B.Sc.. 16th Royal Scots, who was killed in the Battle of the Somme. She represented the British Legion during the Second World War period on the Edinburgh War Pensions Committee. and ...
... election on May 4. Councillor Mrs Ross, who is the widow of Captain Peter Ross. 16th Royal Scots. who was killed in the Battle of the Somme, represented the British Legion for several years on the Edit burgh War Pensions Committee and was thereafter appointed ...
... higher note, Mrs Ross counts any work done to further world peace greatly worth while. Her own husband was killed in the Battle of the Somme. As a mother, her sympathies are with other mothers who bring up their children in an age when so much is done to preserve ...