... There were TWO WARS in FRANCE And the Battle of the Somme Marked the Division Between Them By FERDINAND TUOHY Do war books serve the ends of peace? Opinions differ. Do they give a distorted picture for so much concentration upon the non-commonplace? Probably ...

... the War Memorial to the Victims of the Battle of the Somme at Thiepval Graven, in the words of the Prince of Wales, deep and clear, with the names of upwards of 73,000 British officers and men who died on the Somme and have no known graves, the last of ...

... Territorials. r capture of Pozteres, July 23-26, 1916, was one of the most interesting and hard- fought incidents of the Battle of the Somme. Pozleres, after the loss of the first G^man defensive zone early In July, became the principal point of the new system ...

... directions of the French and British offensive during the battle of the Somme. The British and French lines on July 1 touched each other close to Maricourt, about two miles north of the loop of the Somme between Hem and Frise. The British drove their attack ...

... of Peronne. It lay just behind that part of the German lines which was opposed to General Fayolle's army during the Battle of the Somme, and suffered terribly in the fierce fighting which took place south of Peronne. In the spring of 1917, 1C retreating ...

... at Delville Wood, near Longueval, on the Somme, in memory of the South African soldiers who fell during the Great War, and particularly at the capture of Delville Wood in July, 1915, during the battle of the Somme. This memorial is to be inaugurated on ...

... an Police, was held at Arras; the second, at Thiepval, by the Prince of Wales, was in honour of the victims of the Battle of the Somme. Thousands of Britons surged into Arras, the memorial at which, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, is dedicated, not only ...

... Army in 1916 at the age of 18, joining what subsequently became the Royal Tank Corps, but was wounded in the second battle of the Somme in September, 1918, and was invalided home. n 1919 he founded the firm of D. Byford and Co., making socks in one room ...

... quality, and the record this year is that the proportion of premature explosions is fifteen times less than it was in the Battle of the Somme, with the result that Sir Douglas Haig the other day paid a high tribute to the quality of the ammunition. We have ...

... this marvellous building will be enshrined In a museum as an example of a perfect house of 1924 Mr. John Cucnan s Battle ot the Somme The Library, 28 in. High, Containing Booh n Manuscript by Famous Living Authors The North-eastern Exterior of Dolls ...

... resources of modern scientific warfare had been employed. This retreat was the result of the Allied success at the Battle of the Somme, which had driven so wide and deep a wedge into the German defensive system that it was endangered both to north and ...

... Windmill Country of North France and Belgium. The Nature of the Battle of the Somme near Albert in North France The above view was taken from the German lines during the fighting on the River Somme. The three villages mentioned Montauban, Thiepoal, and Maricourt ...