... week, is Lord Desborough's Hertfordshire seat. Some photographers during the War managed to get a few close-ups of the Battle of the Somme and other contests. There is no particular reason therefore why a private pheasant shoot should hold any terror for ...

... post the remains of our dearly beloved Decca,' killed in action on 5th May 1917. He accompanied us right through the Battle of the Somme and kept us happy and cheerful when there was nothing but mud and crumps for miles around. We have pushed once more ...

... my preach ing and gin ye're nae a better preacher than me, ye're no' worth listening tae. a cinema near Glasgow the Battle of the Somme film was being shown, and sitting side by side were a Highlander and an English Tommy. When they came to the part showing ...

... rode over a field of winter wheat and another of lucerne, and left both of them look ing as if they were a part of the Battle of the Somme, are so utterly inexcusable that it is difficult to comment upon them temperately. The wretched farmer most meekly remarked ...

... Rev. R. E. Inglis, Temporary Chaplain to the Forces, who fell while helping to bring in wounded near Ginchy, at the Battle of the Somme, on September 18th, 1916. At Rugby he was in both the XI. and the XV., and he played twice for Oxford against Cambridge ...

... were shifted about a lot, and I went to the Divisional Headquarters of the First Indian Cavalry Division. After the battle of the Somme in 1916 all the Indian Cavalry went back to the neighbourhood of C r c y. There were a lot of pig in the woods there ...

... organising a meeting at the Machine Gun Corps Memorial, Hyde Park Corner, on 1 July to mark the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. London Transport are having metal bars screwed across Underground ticket-windows to frustrate snatch thieves. Poor ...

... C. in April 1916. He was ridden continuously until the end of the war, and was slightly wounded by shrapnel at the Battle of the Somme. He pro ceeded into Germany with the victorious Second Army from Roubaix, which French town the Second Army had reached ...

... which it is my privilege to visit have not enough money to buy a postage stamp some of them have been there since the Battle of the Somme some have only one leg, some have none, and also no arms. It makes one a bit sick to think of the inequality of things ...

... many people will thank Heaven, but more especially the authoress. She might so easily have killed off Rollo in the Battle of the Somme, whereas he died, in comparative peace, by drowning. Also her selfish but very lifelike brute of a husband Driedre, ...

... had 17 months' pretty stiff fighting at the front. The biggest fights I took part in were the battles of the Somme last year and this year at the Ancre Battle. Our job is maintaining the cables, which we often repair under the most severe fire quite apart ...

... Despatch Runner one of the most trying and dangerous duties of the British Tommy. I took a very active part in the Battles of the Somme, Messines, Ypres and Cambrai, and was fortunate enough to have the Military Medal bestowed upon me for my work as a ...