... HITLER'S DREAM ESCAPE .. AWEARY soldier scrambled in terror from a trench during the Battle of the Somme. He had been shaken out of a doze by a dream that he was being buried alive. London. She had a nightmare in which she ryaw the fiats collapsing. Flats ...

... bought by Briton Richard Dunning, 34. He collects World War I items—and the hole was bleated by German troops during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, killing many British soldiers. ...

... blinded by a sniper at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. But he went on, despite his handicap, to become the leader of the St. Dunstan's organisation for the blind for over fifty years. He also built up a series of business interests in insurance and publishing ...

... recent strike involved men who were not starving but earning £2O-230 a week! My generation of Beatles went through the Battle of the Somme and Passchendaele on 3s. a day. To have seen their sweat and sacrifice and then to look around today staggers me. Let's ...

... 10.20 MY KIND OF MOVIE Dilys Powell on On The Town which- can be seen tomorrow night. 10.25 THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME : Story of one of the greatest battles of the First World'-War (2). 11.40 NEWS. 11.55-12.5 Closedown: Reading. ...

... which should he (loomed hr evory Labour r.• ti abut tion throngliont the ionntry. IN MEMORY OF THE ''Rut we won the Battle , of the Somme atit rum. r i d r um lone. Word. of wi.dom ter .rime student' at Emelt Hall on Novolober 1311, when Nom-foot was ...

... will be able to go over the top with a walk- IT HAPPENED sixty years ago this morning, July I—the first day of the Battle of the Somme. There were around 57,000 casualties that summer day 21,392 men were killed, most of them in the first three hours. ...

... time ago, I joined the Artillery at Woolwich, went to the Dardanelles then on to France where I was blown up in the Battle of the Somme July 1916, receiving eighteen wounds. When I was discharged with said wounds, my discharge papers stated I jomed up ...

... That is, that small • • piece of land where so many died sixty • • years ago at the Battle of the Somme. • • I would like all old soldiers who were in that • • battle to write to me, giving details of experi - • • ences, drawings of the landscape, trench ...

... member of the Welsh:pool Borough Bench. Of their three sons who fought in the Great War, the youngest was killed in the battle of the Somme while commanding his Company in the Ist R.W. Fusiliers, and a second was awarded the Military Cross. As Mayor, Mrs. ...

... 1 enlioed in tots, leaving • good situation to do my duty as a man. Now discharged, disabled, 4thot through hand at battle of the Somme. Pension Iss. a week. The War Pensions Committee could not find work I could In. My brother, who was working in Yorkshire ...

... was a viva voce examination. The children who succeeded received the La Promotion de Victoire in honour of the Battle of the Somme. On October 25th, the inspector notes that there has been another fine bombardment—worse than any we have had for ...