... day of The Battle of the Somme First reports hid truth of slaughter on the Somme Kitchener’s citizen army was blooded on Saturday July 1 1916 when after a seven-day bombardment troops went over the top on the first day of the Battle of the ...

... COST OF 200 BERLIN RAIDS “CHEAPER” THAN ONEDAY SOMME BATTLE Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert, in a broadcast last night, said that on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme suffered 57,500 casualties. In a major raid, if forty bombers were lost ...

... J. GRIMES. Stourbridge The author of The First Day on the Somme, Martin Middlebrook, confirms that the 2nd Bn The Royal Warwickshire Regiment a regular battalion—was at the battle of the Somme. Out of place rail spring Sic—Reading of the recent rail crashes ...

... positions.—Press Association. THE FRENCH ARMY’S PART ON THE SOMME. FINE THREE MONTHS’ RECORD. French Army Headquarters, September 30. The part played by the French in the three months’ battle on the Somme has amazed and confounded the Germans. It had originally ...

... Hagley Road. Quinton, Birmingham. He was 79. Mr. W'hittingham served in the First World War and was wounded in the Battle of the Somme. After the war he qualified as a solicitor and later founded the solicitors firm of Whittingham and Glass In Manchester ...

... Tipperary and Mademoiselle front Armentieres as British and Canadian troops marched through this French town for a Battle of the Somme com- unity and East-West relations will be key subjects at a sevennation conference of top East European government ...

... THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. WHAT WE HAVE GAINED THREE MONTHS. • OUR NEW POSITION. ITie following article from well-informed source:— To see how much we have gained in the way of tactical position by the first three months of the battle of the Somme one must ...

... while withdrawing in conditions without the risk of one day being outflanked. “ The battle from Arras to the Oise is, therefore, the consequence of the battle the Somme, which led the ea.my to recognise the necessity of retiring. If the Germans had decided ...

... death at the ago of eighty-five is announced, was Director of Cinematography during the war and produced a film of the Battle of the Somme. He was attached to the Intelligence Department of the War Office. He had also served in the Navy and the Air Force ...

... IMPORTANCE OF THE SOMME BATTLE. WHAT HAS BEEN DONE BY THE ALLIES. The following telegram has been received from tb© special correspondent erf the British press with the French armies:— Paris, September 27. From an authoritative account of the Battle erf the Somme ...

... frustrated by the German retreat. The British ‘• drum-fire.” it is conceded, was violent that the artillery fire during the battle of the ■Somme was insignificant by comparison. The enflre front line of the German positions was cut off it- —Central News. ENEMY ...

... THE OPENING OF THE SOMME BATTLE. GERMAN STORY OF ALLIES’ HEAVY LOSSES. Amsterdam, August 23. German evening papers publish the first part a long report from headquarters concerning the battle of the Somme July. It stated that in the middle of May the ...