... Wounded on the Somme Captain Parish served in the Great War in the artillery, and was wounded in the first battle of the Somme. He recovered, however, and was subsequently appointed Reconnaissance Officer the 7th Corps Heavy Artillery, with whom asain ...

... for gallantry and initiative in leading his men at a critical moment during the Battle of the Somme. He had been in the fighting ever sines the oommenc-„lneat of the Battle of Arras. The official statement in the London Gazette of Tuesday, November ...

... company, and eventually became Adjutant. The regiment were then with the Fourth Division on the Anore, France. During the battle of the Somme July, 1910, be received wounds which necessitated the, amputation of his left arm. He so distinguished himself in that ...

... were drafted in Jnne 1916, to form the 147th Siege Batters, rind the bsttery WAR Wier mentioned in dispatches in the Battle of the Somme. — ln additien small drafts joined other batteries and member, of the Company served in France, Belgium, Solonic*, Serbia ...

... company, and eventually became Adjutant. The regiment were then with the Fourth Division on the Ancre, France. During the battle of the Somme in July, 19163, he received wounds which necessitated the amputation of his left ann. He so distinguished himself in ...

... in the Battle of the Somme in the last war. Much later, after a great deal of fierce fighting, in which they sacrificed their men lavishly, they published a statement of their total losses which was only small fraction of the losses on the Somme. It appears ...

... freedom in years to come, it was perhaps appropriate that this exhibition was being held on the Wth anniversary of the Battle of the Somme in which the Hants Regiment took part and suffered great losses. The Countess pleaded for liberal support to make the ...

... not express what they fell. The kinemas, continued the Rev. Allen Roinsey, showed nothing of the reality war. actual battle of the Somme would never forgotten by Those who took part in it —dying and maimed were lying ion the battlefield, and yet the pictures ...

... Fraser, the blind candidate, who fought a great and successful election battle. After Deptford and St. Pancraa came campaigning at Paddington, and he was in the thick of the battle for votes there in the great campaign of 1929 and the by-election of 1930 ...

... where his father was a Methodist circuit steward. In 1915, when 17 years old, h a joined the RoTal Fusiliers. Lu r i a; Battle of the Somme he was shot head and neck during a bayonet att ac k and left for dead. Germans his b a d, on a heap of dead in No ...

... Martinpuich and Conrcelette while 20 niles of German trenches passed into our hands. It was the must single day in the battle of the Somme. In Flers were many German dead amongst them Prassian ards ih of inte te add that tanks were used on this . for the ...

... mere deserters—and they came from a regiment of high reputation. They had been hardly tried, aud a third bout of the Battle of the Somme was more than their spirit could endure. If men are not relieved often enough and tor long enough time the best regiments ...