... Army in 1916 at the age of 18, joining what subsequently became the Royal Tank Corps, but was wounded in the second battle of the Somme in September, 1918, and was invalided home. n 1919 he founded the firm of D. Byford and Co., making socks in one room ...

... quality, and the record this year is that the proportion of premature explosions is fifteen times less than it was in the Battle of the Somme, with the result that Sir Douglas Haig the other day paid a high tribute to the quality of the ammunition. We have ...

... this marvellous building will be enshrined In a museum as an example of a perfect house of 1924 Mr. John Cucnan s Battle ot the Somme The Library, 28 in. High, Containing Booh n Manuscript by Famous Living Authors The North-eastern Exterior of Dolls ...

... resources of modern scientific warfare had been employed. This retreat was the result of the Allied success at the Battle of the Somme, which had driven so wide and deep a wedge into the German defensive system that it was endangered both to north and ...

... Such is Life Journey's End.-- Last Sunday, near Peronne, the scene of fierce fighting during the Battle of the Somme, a Birmingham woman wearing the war medals of a Red Cross nurse scattered the ashes of her husband over the ground where he had fought ...

... Windmill Country of North France and Belgium. The Nature of the Battle of the Somme near Albert in North France The above view was taken from the German lines during the fighting on the River Somme. The three villages mentioned Montauban, Thiepoal, and Maricourt ...

... of the fighting in which the Worcestershires and Wiltshires took part is from Mr. H. Perry Robinson's account of the Battle of the Somme, entitled The Turning Point (Heinemann). The fighting was then towards Thiepval:-- The ground was so torn and battered ...

... Wireless For The Blind WHEN I was a young soldier in a battle on the Somme a sniper's bullet struck me across the eyes and I did not see again, but I can visualise. That is to say, X can make pictures in my mind from the things I hear, and when an i ...

... later on Director of the Tank Supply Department under the Ministry of Munitions. The Tanks made their debut at the Battle of the Somme in September, 1916, and on October 1, 1916, Colonel Stern became Director-General of the Mechanical Warfare Supply ...

... O'Connor gives a memorablepicture of the chateau in which the British Conunander-in-Chief was lodged cm the eve of the Battle of the Somme another study in contrasts. The General was at work in his room when they arrived And as we wait here, as one might ...

... Welch Fusiliers, and took part in the retreat from Mons, the advance to the Aisne, and the battle of the Marne. In 1915 she was wounded by shrapnel on the Somme, and in 1918 took part in the final advance prior to the Armistice CAMOUFLAGE This veteran ...

... the Germans. This superiority explains their success in the Battle of the Somme. The Germans understand this as well as the Allies. Mr. Philip Gibbs, in his recently-published Battles of the Somme, prints a technical report on these operations made by General ...