... last war, when their father, Mr. A. Parker, of the Gloucestershire Regiment, was wounded in 1915, again in 1916 in the Battle of the Somme. and was gassed at Ypres in 1917. ...

... a private in the Australian Forces, refusing a commission, and was wounded in Gallipoli aud afterwards in the 1916 battle of the Somme. Last February he was persuaded accept 2 commission as a lieutenant of Engineers, in March he was promoted cap- tain ...

... in the Gloucesters, leaving for the front with his regiment in He was wounded in October, March, 1915. 1916, in the Battle of the Somme, returning home, and finally gaining his commission m August, 1917, in the same regiment. SEC.-LIEUT. H. P. EVANS. Sec ...

... Gorell became \ c The Times editorial staff. When the War broke out he in JV Brigade, and was wounded at the first battle of the Somme in J- i ready and graceful speaker, and has been brought into contac all the nation's leading men. J Chairman: The Right ...

... understanding were being more closely welded. Great Britain and France should march hand-in-hand as they did at the battle of the Somme. The French had a great admiration for the enormous military and economic push which Great Britain had undertaken, ...

... the 4tii German Corps, thinks of the British Army is revealed in the course of voluminous document dealing with the battle of the Somme and its lessons, which was captured by our troops, it begins by paying tribute to our infantry. The English infantry ...

... ALLIES ADVANCE ON SOMME 25 Years Ago In the Battle of the Somme, slow but steady progress was made by the Allies, who continued their advances along both sides of the river. The Germans did their best to minimise the importance of these movements. The ...

... University of South Africa, Natal. During the war he served in the Royal Artillery, and was severely wounded at the Battle of the Somme, and was awarded the M.C. On a year's leave of absence in 1927-28 he taught at Upper Canada College, Toronto, and while ...

... GERMANS HIT ON TWO FRONTS 25 Years Ago The fierce fighting of the battle of the Somme occupied the attention of all. In desperate encounters, in which the Allies were said to have adopted very different tactics from those used a few months before at Verdun ...

... soldiers, and that she had offered to release him by ltiter. The letter, defendant declared, he lost when wounded at the battle of the Somme. ...

... concluded with casualties which were small j compared with those suffered in the last war. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme the British Army sustained 60,000 casualties, we can imagine what it would have cost the Allies to force the Axis lines ...

... CAPTURES. An authoritative account of the phases of the Battle of the Somme, from July 1 to July 10, published in the French e results of the papers to-day, sums w first as follows :-— hase of the battle on the French side In less than a the French troops ...