... late Field-Marshal Earl Haig, the inside history of the Great War on the Western Front from August 1914 to the first Battle of the Somme. Sensational revelations were made. Great controversies were explained. Blunt attacks were made on several Allied leaders ...

... 1915, but returned to his bait talion in November of that year. . He was taken prisoner of war by the Germans at the battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916, and was interned in number of prison camps in Germany. He made several attempts to escape, and on one ...

... The White Hall. The War Films Committee have taken a sequel to the Battle of the .Somme, and this was released at the above hall on Monday I ast, and proved of rreat interest. It showed His Majesty King George inspecting bis Army in France, and Mr. Lloyd ...

... Pte. Summers joined the Colours in October. 1914. -- He went through the big attack in July, 1916, and was in the Battle on the Somme, also the attack at Pasrhendaele and Ypres, and in the Crirrbria Rattle. At the time he joined the Colours he was •in ...

... Huekerby, 33, Devonshire Street, cm; bold Moor. father, Pte. William Hnekerby, Sherwood Foresters. was killed in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Enlisting in the Sherwood Foresters on .he outbreak of war, rgt. Hnekerb37 22 Tears of agn and used to at Bond's ...

... for hint his many distinctions. He went to France with the Grenadier Guards in the early days of the war, and at the Battle of the Somme, in 1916, was mentioned in dispatches and ptoinoted to sergeant. Shortly afterwards he was recommended for a and gazetted ...

... First World First day victim's memoirs THE thoughts the hopes and fears of a father killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme are to be published - 82 years after his death Lance Corporal Henry Lowe was one of 40 Derby soldiers who wrote about ...

... has been wounded in the right inn and leg whilst engaged in action during r add Aitir„y,i ,. t h e eon of m e. w. the battle on the Somme. He was f•tr over ten years in Paris Bank (Crompton and Hodson, of L . radhourne Hall, and was Evans' Branch) at AshOooree ...

... interesting reports. Quite in the vein of the best approved soothsayers, von Wiegand, in his earlier despatches on the Battle of the Somme, spoke of the new Anglo French offensive as of practically no importance, and foretold its early collapse. A very marked ...

... afternoon service Mr. J. Cousins presided and Mrs. Davies (Woodhouse) was the soloist._ DRUMHEAD SERVICE—To commemorate the Battle of the Somme, the Beighton branch of the British Legion organised a drumhead service on the Welfare Club cricket ground on Sunday ...

... Hospital, rockley somehow mis: out on his well deser medals all those ye ago B Thankyou gesture A veteran of the bloody battle of th Somme finally received his war medal this week — after a 70 years’ wait. ut bakewell Roys British Legion branc president Colonel ...

... Handsworth Memorial Bells with the Clappens Half-muffled. The attempt was in commemoration of the I.sth anniversary of the Battle of the Somme in which a large number of the SilieSeki City Battalion gave their lives. The attempt proved a failure owing to one ...