... a fine record as active soldier and pioneer of army education, and a plan of operations for the 1th Division in the Battle of the Somme. Clearly, then, the material to his hand dictated the form of his book and the title he chose only very loosely welds ...

... phases in the war. The writer, who was third and youngest son of the Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich, fell in the battle of the Somme, July 1. 1916. That he would have made, had he lived, a name of note in the world of poetry cannot be doubted by anyone ...

... (Ulster) Division fought with great distinction and tragic loss at the Battle of the Somme. Donegal playwright, Frank mcGuinness's play 'Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, focuses on the innermost feelings of the young sol diers who walked ...

... brevity and certainly because of its sensitivity, is a memorable and delightful book. Of all. the insane folly of war the Battle of the Somme has few counterparts in respect of the mass butchery involved for no territorial reward or strategical gain of any ...

... Carrying On aftei the First Hundred Thousand. From the Battle of Loos to the Battle of the Somme, The Junior Sub., Ian Hay, carries on with The Carrying On after the First Hundred Thousand (Blackwood). Gone were the days, he says, when sitting close ...

... the battle of the Somme, and the men of the ranks with whom the highly articulate author served The same event is the subject of Lieut-Col. A. H. Farrar-Hockley's The Somme (Batsford 30s.) which belongs to the publishers' series on British Battles. It ...

... grimly humorous and sympathetic, a genuine book which should not be missed. Si, Si, When that excellent film of the Battle of the Somme was released for home consump tion, there were some knowing souls who had visions of a camera safely implanted in a ...

... second volume carries the story from the close of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 to the end of Haig's life. For many people the chief interest will lie in the seventy-five pages on the genesis and battle of Passchendaele. Broadly speaking, the causes which ...

... phases in the war. The writer, who was third and youngest son of the Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich/fell in the battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916. That he would have made, had he lived, a name of note in the world of poetry cannot be doubted by anyone ...

... A Vivid Story of the Somme A ttack, by Edward Liveing (Heinemann). This small book appeared originally in the form of an article in Blackwood' s Magazine. It tells the story of the opening day of the great battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916, as it was ...

... a hospital ward he is a man of forty-one who remembers nothing after the previous shock of a wound received in the Battle of the Somme seventeen years previously. His mentality slips back to its development at the age of twenty-four, and the intervening ...

... Bristol Btn the Gloucestershire Regiment. The battalion more than played its part in the Great War, as is shown by its battle honours the Somme, 1916, Albert, 1916, Langemarck, 1917, Ypres, 1917 Bazentin, Pozieres and Poelcapelle and now a new chapter in its ...