... documentary which will open the series next Wednesday This is Battle of Somme first major official war film made in Britain It is a record of the preparation and opening stages of First Battle of the Somme in July 1916 To it is to the dead iiiiiiiiiiimimiimii ...

... both men had climbed the Service at same time the first of two articles BRIAN GARDNER author of The Big Push and The Battle of the Somme has written a profile on Allenby still comparatively unknown to-day despite his successful leadership of the British ...

... phases that disastrous war The battles of the Somme and Verdun of savage annihilation in the cause of winning few yards of shell-pulped earth of the squalor and the heroism of the trenches There is film too of the naval battle of Jutland And of the effects ...

... 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 ...

... this terrible problem which in ihe matter of injury and mortality has become the civilian equivalent of the oft-quoted Battle of the Somme That holocaust ended this one on by Ray Anker Our London Film Critic Like the little girl in the nursery rhyme the trouble ...

... voice— silent It will all its treasure and give all if be” We gave the men lavishly enough On the first day of the Battle of the Somme gave 57470 the operation continued for 140 more days From beginning to end the Front alone claimed 2500000 British ...

... minimum three trips a week His company not first battle of Ypres went nearly a thousand men of the 1st Battalion Ninety came out More men came out from home Battalion went into the battle of the Somme in 1916 and again it was cut to ribbons again re-formed ...

... Churchill who fathered these machines with such enthusiasm never ceased to regret their hasty and unconsidered use in the battle of The Somme His enthusiasm was not contagious there was much scepticism and to ask that they should be held back accumulated and ...

... series The Great War” in fortnight's time Captain Liddell Hart claims that as military adviser told the BBC that the Battle the Somme programme August 22 wrongly slanted emphasised the supposed inexperience and of of th British ttroops while ignoring ...

... France Thereby missed battle of the Somme and joined division just thev had beer moved north to take over the line front of Yprcs The Royal Artillery of the Kaiser’s w’ar equipped and trained for a moving colonial war-type battle against troops in the ...

... he began a military career in 1913 but in 1917 while serving with the Cheshire Regiment he lost his left arm in the Battle of the Somme After recovering from war wounds he joined the civil service a clerk 1918 His first post with Ministry of Pensions at ...

... revisit the Somme A retired Shrewsbury clergyman is revisit the Somme battlefield where half a century ago won the Victoria Cross Rev Arthur Procter aged 75 Mytton Oak Road Shrewsbury is one of the seven men awarded the VC during the battle who will be ...