... (Oracle subtitles). Photography from the Western Front during the first two years of World War 1, official version. The Battle of the Somme was filmed in the opening days of the disastrous offensive in July 1916. It was the first major attempt by the Government ...

... rduthin droves on July 1 1916. “Lions led * said German General Ladendarlf of the British soldiers who died in the Battle of the Somme, the greatest disaster in the history of our arm I-y-nl&-uwdhad no idea what combat entailed. Neither, it seemed, had ...

... Auckland farmer Mr. H Hivwood, has coughed up a piece of Germuat shrapnel which lay embedded in his head sipce the battle of the Somme in 1918, It was aninch and a half long, half-an-inch thick, ind weighed half an ounce, + - - B-r-r-r-h-h, it's a well ...

... hasfallen in action. He went to France in August, 1914, gained the D.C.M. in August of last year, and lost his life in the battle of the Somme. He had been through a lot of hard fighting. His age was 23, and he was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Burton, 171 ...

... warfare. Seventy years ago next week, Britain suffered its worst military disaster. July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, left 20,000 soldiers dead and 40,000 wounded. PETER RHODES meets one who remembers that terrible day. Basil Houle recalls ...

... BOAT RACE. The America’s Cup. 7.0 NEWS SUMMARY and WEATHER followed by 7 DAYS. Walter Fenton, aged 91, recalls the Battle of the Somme, and Mary Kenny discusses her new book Abortion: The Full Story. 7.30 STRANGERS ABROAD. Coming of Age. Documentary series ...

... trade aspvmicatfip but left in August, 1914, for service with the Royal Artillery. being wounded in the foot during ‘the Battle of the Somme in in 1916. On being demobilised in !-cbnnl{. 1916, Mr. Jones returned to the xy works, completed his iceship, and then ...

... Sir Douglas Haig’s Dispatches. : Sir Douglas Haig's detailed dispatches on the battles of the Somme will, it is thought; be published on or about January 1. ‘They witll furnish some of the most absorbing war reading we've had yet. ...

... hospital beds, ete, through driving over the limit of intoxicants. So beware motorists and think deeply. “STILL BATTLING FROM THE SOMME,” Blakenhall, Wolverhampton. ...

... Veteran of Somme air battles dies at home A Claverley man — a veteran of air battles over the Somme during the First World War — has died at his home. Mr William Henry Dawkes, MBE, aged 86, of 2 legarth Cottage, died on mturday after a long illness. He ...

... He has spent 23 years in the Army, and ten of them getting himself shot at. He was at both battles of the Somme and at Dunkirk. “The Somme was the worst battle in the history of mankind. If my memory serves me right, we lost 65,000 men in one day. The ...

... R ) honour the South Staffs and other Midlands regiments which took part in the battles of the Somme and Ypres. Margaret Courtenay returns to Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, where she was a member of Derek Salberg's repertory company, to take over from Beryl ...