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... Territorials. r capture of Pozteres, July 23-26, 1916, was one of the most interesting and hard- fought incidents of the Battle of the Somme. Pozleres, after the loss of the first G^man defensive zone early In July, became the principal point of the new system ...
... directions of the French and British offensive during the battle of the Somme. The British and French lines on July 1 touched each other close to Maricourt, about two miles north of the loop of the Somme between Hem and Frise. The British drove their attack ...
... f HOIJD BEAVE 50LDIEES AND SAILODS (NTHC royal academy or 191 rm I BATTLE OF THE SOMME THE ATTACK OF THE ULSTER DIVISION, JULY 1, 1916. BY JAMES P. BEADLE ANNO DOMINI 1917. Wmh-kW 'fyy.:.rXj wmx&t BY J. CHARLES DOLLMAN I I ymmi III I ,1 M llili J^tT ...
... the Ulster Volunteer Force before the war. One fell at Festubcrt in June last year the other two were killed in the Battle of the Somme on July I. They were great athletes, playing for the North of Ireland Rugby Football Club. Dr. Sawers Scott, of Withington ...
... jp| A NEW HUN-KILLER: FRANCE'S RAILWAY GUN This long range naval gun, used by the French for the first time at the battle of the Somme. is mounted on a railway truck, travelling on rails specially laid in an easy curve, so that by moving the truck up ...
... , S. and G.) continued.] astonishing immunity even from modern missiles thus out of the 5000 birds employed in the Battle of the Somme, it is estimated that only 100 did not return. One of the most famous instances of their use in war, perhaps, was that ...
... of Peronne. It lay just behind that part of the German lines which was opposed to General Fayolle's army during the Battle of the Somme, and suffered terribly in the fierce fighting which took place south of Peronne. In the spring of 1917, 1C retreating ...
... 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 ...
... the Ulster Volunteer Force before the war. One fell at Festubcrt in June last year the other two were killed in the Battle of the Somme on July I. They were great athletes, playing for the North of Ireland Rugby Football Club. Dr. Sawers Scott, of Withington ...
... at Delville Wood, near Longueval, on the Somme, in memory of the South African soldiers who fell during the Great War, and particularly at the capture of Delville Wood in July, 1915, during the battle of the Somme. This memorial is to be inaugurated on ...
... an Police, was held at Arras; the second, at Thiepval, by the Prince of Wales, was in honour of the victims of the Battle of the Somme. Thousands of Britons surged into Arras, the memorial at which, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, is dedicated, not only ...