... water to smash the last of the Nazi invasion ships. “Mass execution” “Like Battle of Somme’’ HP HE battles of Crete and -*• Tobruk are comparable in their intensity to the battles of the last war, according to well-informed circles in the German capital ...

... equipment have not been great—probably less than the British Army lost in any one day in the opening phases of the Battle of the Somme during the last war. There is little doubt that the Germans did not want to fight in the Balkans. Germany must now restore ...

... the headquarters in Exeter. It was while serving with the Devonshire Regiment as a lance-corporal during the second battle of the Somme that Major Onions won the V.C. With another man he was responsible for the capture of 200 prisoners. Major Onions had ...

... In this rush to do his bit was following the example of his father, who in the last war was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Somme when only 18.\ PRIVATE L. BEDFORD Alleged admission in Birmin • -lujir-rnn- ...

... not woman in England who would not anything she could to help the men at the front. They had fought battle before the battle of the Somme. They had battled raise the working conditions. The women must see it that while the men were away that that level was ...

... take 'part the battle south oi Somme and dropped bombs and used their . machine guns until late hour the 1 targets offered by the enemy. Useful reports to the location : hostile troops were brought in, and in the northern area the battle certain • amount ...

... TWICE MCUrLY. «.«l A9O Actual Fighting on the Actual Battlefield The - oet thrilling m the History Cinematography BATTLE OF THE SOMME** Offlnal p.o ?-' je ci •'The Great AdTar.cc. See th© British Actwm*! Farr Farlaod; Zaafrellas; Irene May. Box Office ...

... the Battle of the Somme in 1916, lost all but one officer and 30 men GNR. TEW. “They were among the earliest of the Territorial regiments in Britain to be converted to anti - aircraft artillery. All units of the 68th had experience in the Battle of Britain ...

... THE GERMAN LOSSES Assuming, according to one estimate, that there were J22 Gernfttn divisions during the battle of the Somme, the Vrenoh and ourselves had defeated something like half the total German forces, something like a million men in all during ...

... give it that character. The German communique of October almost any denial imaginative is Geneial von asserts that the battle ot the Somme is redoubling in intensity front of miles, and that General con troops have not 10-t inch ot ground, in spite the repeated ...

... BIRMINGHAM V.C. HAS A MESSAGE FOR THE OLD BRIGADE GEORGE ONIONS, who won the V.C. when a lance-corporal at the Battle of the Somme, and now commands detachment of a Birmingham home defence battalion, has a message. It is: “COME ALONG, THE OLD BRIGADE ...

... Germans of the battle of the Somme:— Farewell, comrades, you who must sleep the Somme! You were our firm defence. Every a but w-ark, was the body which it cover*. Your names are songs. Farewell, comrades the Somme! The children Germany say ...