... PICTURES OF THE WAR. THE SOMME BATTLE FILMED. For a good hour and a half Thursday specially invited audience sat in the Scala Theatre and watched the battle of the Somme unrol itself in film pictures taken by permission of the War Office. They were moving ...

... thrilling narratives of the battle, which is one of the greatest, as it is one of the most important conflicts in the history of war. THE BATTLE OPENS. ' Haig Launches His Great Offensive. It Avas on Monday morning that a new battle on grand scale began and ...

... CARS AN EYE-OPENER FOR THE HUN. Mysterious and Impregnable Machines Used in Battle of the Somme. Sir Douglas Haig’s revelation of the employment against the Ger■ mans on the Somme of a new type of heavily armoured car has aroused great interest throughout ...

... comrades, the R.A.M.C. men. The Somme Battle. Pte. P. SPENCER, Military Hospital, Chlseldon, near Swindon. I think would have been more honourable if this “ Sergt. had published his name and address. tring the Battle of the Somme I know the wounded w uld have ...

... war should be prolonged, which God forbid, but it was prolonged our armies would be stronger thaji ever. In the great battle of the Somme, in 1916, the British artillery fire was utterly unprecedented and unexampled in the history of the war. During the ...

... . Looking-glass Charlock, white and flower. yellow. Hemp-nettle. Goosefool. Sow-thistle. The WOII , over which the Battle of the Somme was fought in the late summer and autumn of 1916, was during the winter and spring of 1917 a dreary waste of mud and ...

... proud to announce new double pack video set two classic films of the war -THE BATTLE OFTHE SOMME and BATTLE OF THE ANGRE AND THE ADVANCE OF THE TANKS THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME the world's first ever war documentary made in 1916 The British ...

... raised but for the magnificent qualities which are the glory of the British race. Slow but Sure. i The aspect which the battle of the Somme is assuming is characteristic. Our progress in Picardy is slow, but it is continuous over practically the whole of the ...

... (Calvados), France.” A friend of mine asked young lady at the door of a cinema the other day: “ Are you showing the Battle of the Somme here, miss?” “No, sir,” was the reply; “but we are showing The Sins of Society'; walk right in, sir.” My friend didn’t ...

... Soldiers’ Own Stories of Thrilling Incidents in the Battle the Somme. We here give soldiers’ own stories of the “Great Push.” They bring home to readers the various phases of the battle of the Somme and show what our splendid fighting men are “up against ...

... Essex Salute for old soldier at 03 ALBERT Cook celebrated his 103rd birthday - and owes it to pipe and frv-ups The Battle of the Somme veteran Snitterby Lines says that all his life he smoked loved pint and a big greasy breakfast 42 MINUTES THIS spar ...

... cut out. When was well he was accepted, and to-day I hear he holds captain’s rank and distinguished himself at the battle of the Somme A Mistaken Welcome, I’m told that curious mistake was made at dial ing Cross the other day hen the wounded were being ...