... BATTLE OF THE SOMME BOOK NOW BOOK NOW ENCOURAGE THE INDUSTRIOUS BUND HBALTHY and profitable Employment is afforded to the Blind, but the work Is In no sense a solicitation of charity. The Agent receives direct personal benefit the sale of the goods. The ...

... that time. James joined the army over three years ago, add was home three times, first with wounds received in the Battle of the Somme, and afterwards with trench feet and trench fever. He was a railway porter at Stirling when he enlisted. Mrs Mann has ...

... floral tributes. -2 Bell Place. lit Altutertint PETERS.—In loving memory of Pte. John Peters, who was wounded at the Battle of the Somme and died in Military I lospital, Orpington, Kent, England, on 13th October, 1916. Gone, but not forgotten.—lnserted ...

... During the First World War he served with the 4/6th Battalion The Black Watch in France and was taken prisoner at the battle of the Somme. He joined the LMS Railway Company at Forfar in 1927 and remained with the railways until his retiral in 1957. He was ...

... leaving School. During the First World War, he served with the Royal Scots, and lost part of his right arm in 1917 at the Battle of the Somme. i K Despite his handicap, Mr Hampton joined the Post Office in Forfar after the war, and worked on a rural dfiivery ...

... (he lost his issue), but he got this badge from Fred Steele, whose father, Mr J]. Steele, was killed at the second battle of the Somme in 1917. Before joining up he worked on the railway. j The badge has been in the family ...

... Dominion and quarter of the Empire. whether regulars, Territorial.% or men of the new armies, hive borne a share in the battle of the Somme. While some have been more fortunate than others in opportunities far distiner.itan. all have done their duty nobly ...

... years ago was employed at Victoria Works. In August 1915 be wounded in one of th, leg i t, and in the early days of the Battle of the Somme, Ile was buried on no fewer than time occasions through the ttenehes at hitirt of the line having been blown in. Bruce ...

... Union Bank in Ebrfar, had an excellent record of war service. 13e joined the army In 1915 and participated in M. first battle of the Somme. Sub.equently he was in- Aided home suffering front diphtheria, and on ieeovering he entered a Cadet Corp. in which ...

... and brother. PETERS.—In loving memory of Private John l'eters, 3/sth Battalion Black Watch, who was wounded at the Battle of the Somme and died in Military Hospital. Orpington, Kent, England, on the 13th day of October 1916. There is a link Death cannot ...

... CHANNEL 4 For Father | ‘Pozieres 1916° by Peter Charlton (Secker and Warburg: Leo Cooper £14.95) is a study of a key battle of the Somme in which the Australian troops suffered more than 23,000 casuaities. It is a story of strategic and tactical blunders ...

... Carsebum Road, Forfar. In Memoriam PETERS.—In affectionate remembrance Private John Peters, who was wounded at the Battle of the Somme and died in Military Hospital, Orpington, Kent, England, on the 13th day October, 1916, aged 35 years.—lnserted by Sarah ...