... Somme Battle Wounds. Educated at Harrow and King's College, Cambridge, Mr. P. V. Emrys-Evans received a commission in the 11th Batt. of the Suffolk Re{ iment in 1914. and was severely wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He was later temporary ...

... 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 ...

... DEATH OF WAR HERO Severely ineadocitered while engaged in battle on tit: Somme durim, the last war. Breastkm young man ail° has patiently borne much sufferim an inconvenience, passed away in the Derby Royal Infirmary en Thursday last, having entered ...

... Terrible Memories THOMAS HIMBY THEOBALD. of 111, Cramonvadreet, Long Eaton, was so badly wounded in the neck st the Battle of the Somme. 1916, that the doctors gave him only seven years to And now. ot•er twenty years after that fatetul day when went ...

... 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 ...

... 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: ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... representation the country, that we have come to the end of our dangers. We must guard against a repetition of the Battle of the Somme; we always have to pay for our idols—we cannot afford to expend yearly £lBO millions for guns. ships and poison gas ...

... 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 ...