... had soft spot for the way they carry out their duties God and mankind Coming out of the firing line during the first Battle of the Somme in 1916 we were having a cup of tea in Salvation Army canteen LETTERS should be Sent- io Daily: Post Box 48 Old Kail ...

... considering flying to London but British Embassy officials refuse to comment Tears of the old Somme brigade SEVENTY years on surviving veterans of the Battle of the Somme went back yesterday the of Picardy where a quarter of million of their comrades fell between ...

... realised the horrors of World War I battles would bring an everlasting legacy to the volunteers - they would all die together Harris’s tale of a Yorkshire battalion’s two-year training before the mighty Somme battles is seen through the eyes of a ranker ...

... beautiful film It involved a lot of research and Les has used all sorts of tricks to bring a historical battle to life” The battle is that of the Somme On its first day July 1 1916 there were 60000 British casualties including many Merseyside men Les used ...

... is a one-bed-roomed cottage next door There is so much work going on in the house it looks like the Battle of the Somme” Mr Puttnam is used to battles and tends to win most of them Local Hero can already be acclaimed another outright victory New York ...

... Roy Jenkins said the Conservative manifesto might have come from Field Marshal Haig’s headquarters after the first Battle of the Somme: “Casualties intolerable Ground gained negligible 'Press on and with resolution we shall secure more of the same results ...

... searching No Man’s Land for the wounded Sad irony Then came the award of his first VC won at Guillemont during the Battle of the Somme He had saved the lives of at least 20 men quite oblivious of danger to himself On hearing this news Gladys could not ...

... depressing pr the fall is coupled with duction then it is a sij ment Reinforcements for Somme TODAY sees the 70th anniversary of one of the bloodiest battles in history the Somme And with it comes the likelihood of taking the plight of first and second world ...

... did not think Noel expected to come home “Death was very near in those days” The citation for his VC won during the Battle of the Somme told how he saved the lives of about 20 wounded men working among them during two days and nights and frequently in ...

... LIONS LED BY DONKEYS The Battle of the Somme What did it feel like to go over the top on July 1st 1916 and to survive the greatest disaster in the history of the British Army? Some of the remaining survivors of the Battle of the Somme tell their remarkable ...

... terror from their baptism of fire - so very different from what the recruiting sergeants had told them at Llandudno The Battle of the Somme lasted four and a half months during which the British Army lost 400000 men - more than during the whole of World War ...

... reserve judgment on Mr Dudfield’s claim until Mr Faithfull’s claim Lost legs in Battle of the Somme Mr Dudfield who lost his legs below the knees in the Battle of the Somme in the 1914-18 war became a Ministry of Works lift attendant in 1937 and became ...