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... February Woman INDIA active service as a machine gunner in the terrible battle of the Somme. We lost 60.000 British soldiers on the first day (July 11. The Sherwood Foresters were practically annihilated together with nearly all of my pals. I was one ...
... SEVERELY WOUNDED He served in the 1914-18 war, rising to the rank of staff sergeant and being severely wounded in the Battle of the Somme. A skilled footballer he played several first team games as centrehalf with Fulham. He was also a keen cricketer. Mr ...
... During the 1914-1918 war Mr. Few served with the Sherwood Foresters, but was seriously wounded in July 1916 at the Battle of the Somme. After leaving the Army he was solo canter player at Central Ord- nance Depot, Chilwell, and also with bands at Long ...
... produced on site went to the Western Front and one historic fact k that practically ever/ Abell fired by British ps at the Battle of the Somme wa made at Chi'well. Dzipite the danver storie:. saittt prezautions at the factory Wert stringent. Workers were required ...
... start of the Battle of the Somme. One man writing from an address in Long Eaton this week : was one of those who came through -- a cut knee. a hash on top of the sled helmet. otherwise unscathed. - But this es-soldier was wounded in other battles, lk adds: ...
... lisle at 156, Stapleford-lane, Ton were married at St. Stephen's Church, Sheffield. Mr. Eden came on furlough from the Battle of the Somme for the wedding. Mrs. Eden was born in Binningbain, but moved to Sheffield at any early age. Mr. Eden is a native of ...
... Corps and was stationed. initially, at Aldershot. In 1916 he went to France and Belgium and took part in the famous battle of Ypres. Somme and Arass, helping look after injured horses and ferrying fit horses to the front line. He iose ----- tOte rank of ...
... more Sherwood Forester, in Long Futon who went over the top ut Gommecourt on July I. 1916. l'his was the start of the Battle of the Somme in which the British force: had in one gay. the greatest slaughter in one day in any War. - The 4601 Division in whist ...
... how most successful shelling-filling factory of World War 1 was built and how it changed the course of the war at the Battle of the Somme the great explosion that killed 134 workers and injured 250 more the official report marked Secret about this far-reaching ...
... after birthday OLD soldier Frank Collett has died - just days after marking his 100th birthday While a rookie in the Battle of the Somme Frank was shot in the neck but lived to tell the remarkable tale He was sent home to be patched up and then returned ...
... Echo Arnold News and Echo and Beeston Gazette and Echo in 1913 After service in the 1914-18 war when he wounded in the Battle of the Somme he returned to the newspaper industry and became chairman of the company and the associated Long Eaton Advertiser Co ...
... from all age groups The oldest from Nottingham was 93-year-old Walter Spencer who saw service in World War I at the Battle of the Somme with World War II veterans Law rence Tiplady Boxer Brown and branch chairman Jim Darby also attending The Guards Association ...